Part 1: Identification/Significance Questions:

Select 10 from the following list of terms. Provide the identification and explain the significance of the terms you have selected. Your response to each selected term should be several sentences long and should include a time-frame reference. Your responses will be graded on content, completeness, and format. Each term is worth up to 6 points: 4-pts for content, 2-pts for grammar, punctuation and spelling.

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Battle of Kursk

Yalta Conference

Blitzkrieg

Internment Camps

Atlantic Charter

Kristallnacht

"Magic"

The Manhattan Project

Operation Barbarossa

Operation Overlord

Operation Torch

Sudetenland

Doolittle Raid

Warsaw Ghetto 

Questions:

1. Why did Truman decide to drop the Atomic bomb on a Japanese City? Why was the second bomb dropped? How would you defend these decisions or criticize them?
2. Why did the Allies disagree over where and when to open the Second Front against Germany? What were the potential long-term consequences of making Stalin wait for the opening of a Second Front?