Unit 5, Lesson 3: The Road to Victory

Vocab Matching Match the vocabulary word to its correct definition. casualties soldiers killed, wounded, or missing liberated freed kamikaze suicide attacks in which pilots purposefully crashed their planes Who won the battles? Using your book, find out who won each of the battles and put it in the correct category. Germans - Axis US, Britain, Soviets - Allies Fighting in North Africa Sicily, Italy Stalingrad Battle of the Bulge D-Day (France) This attack was the largest single invasion in history? Stalingrad Berlin D-Day What was a major turning point of the war in the Pacific? The US sinking all four Japanese aircraft carriers The US capturing Guam and Wake The US dropping bombs on Tokyo Americans launched a new strategy to fight Japan. It was called _ _. This meant attacking one island from the air, landing troops, and then gaining control of it. Then, they moved on to the next island. kamikaze missions island hopping naval battles President Roosevelt ordered American scientists to develop an atom bomb. This top secret operation was called the _ _. VE Day Manhattan Project Iwo Jima Fill in the Blanks. On August 6, a bomber called the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. About 70,000 people died. Three days later, a second bomb destroyed 30 percent of Nagasaki. This bomb killed about 40,000 people. Japan surrendered when the _ _ also declared war on them. Soviet Union Chinese government Great Britain