Question: Who oversaw Operation Starvation?
Answer: General Curtis LeMay

Question: What ultimatum stated that Japan would face "prompt and utter destruction" if it did not surrender?
Answer: Potsdam Declaration

Question: America dropped what on August 6, 1945?
Answer: atomic bomb

Question: What was the forst Japenese city nuked by the United States?
Answer: Hiroshima

Question: What was the name of the blockade and bombing of Japan planed to make them surrender?
Answer: Operation Downfall

Question: When did American drop a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki?
Answer: 9 August

Question: Who wrote that a Soviet invasion of Japan was unlikely?
Answer: Richard B. Frank

Question: When did the soviet Union invade Manchukuo?
Answer: 9 August 1945

Question: What was the last campaign of World War II?
Answer: Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation

Question: What was the largest campaign of the Soviets against Japan?
Answer: Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation

Question: Who gained Manchukuo, Mengjiang, and northern Korea after the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Campaign?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: When did hostilities between Japan and the Soviet Union resum after six years of peace?
Answer: 9 August 1945

Question: How did the Japanese refer to the atomic bombings and the Soviet invasion?
Answer: "Twin Shocks"

Question: When did Japan surrender?
Answer: 15 August

Question: What was the one condition Japan wanted before accepting the Potsdam terms?
Answer: "prerogative of His Majesty as a Sovereign Ruler"

Question: What was the reply to Japan about the surrender condition?
Answer: "authority" of the emperor "shall be subject to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers"

Question: What was it called when the Japanese Cabinet accepted the Potsdam terms?
Answer: "sacred decision"

Question: What date does Japan consider the end of the Pacific War?
Answer: 14 August

Question: What day is know in the United States as "V-J Day"?
Answer: 15 August

Question: When did Japan formally have signed the surrender?
Answer: 2 September 1945

Question: On what battleship was the surrender document signed by the Japanese delagation?
Answer: USS Missouri

Question: Who accepted the Japanese surrender?
Answer: General Douglas MacArthur

Question: How many women are believed to have been sexual slaves for the Japenese Army?
Answer: 200,000

Question: In 1948, how many Dutch women brought a case to the Batavia Military Tribunal?
Answer: 35

Question: In 2001 which Japanese Prime <Minister apologized for the brothels.
Answer: Junichiro Koizumi

Question: In 2007 which Japenese Prime Minister said there was no proof of coercion of women to be sexual slaves?
Answer: Shinzō Abe

Question: Where were the sexual slave women mostly from?
Answer: Korea and China

Question: About how many Australians were taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore and British Malaya?
Answer: 15,000

Question: In what year did Japan establish a base in New Guinea?
Answer: 1942

Question: What date was the Australian mainland first attacked?
Answer: 19 February

Question: What mainland Australian city was attacked by the Japanese on February 19?
Answer: Darwin

Question: For how many months was Australia attacked from the air by Japan?
Answer: 19

Question: Richmond is located at what line of the James river?
Answer: the fall line

Question: At what intersections is the Richmond located?
Answer: Interstate 95 and Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 and Virginia State Route 288.

Question: What counties are located? around Washington.D.C?
Answer: Henrico and Chesterfield counties

Question: What suburb is located on the southwest?
Answer: Midlothian

Question: What suburb is located on the north and west?
Answer: Glen Allen

Question: What are the major roads in Richmond?
Answer: Interstate 95 and Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 and Virginia State Route 288

Question: What is the closest historically famous city is 44 miles away?
Answer: 44 miles (71 km) west of Williamsburg

Question: What counties surround Richmond?
Answer: Henrico and Chesterfield counties

Question: Name at least two major suburbs of Richmond.
Answer: Midlothian to the southwest, Glen Allen to the north and west, Short Pump to the west and Mechanicsville to the northeast

Question: How many miles east of Richmond is Williamsburg?
Answer: 44

Question: How many kilometers west of Charlottesville is Richmond?
Answer: 106

Question: Leaving Washington DC, what cardinal direction would one travel to reach Richmond?
Answer: south

Question: What is Richmond's southwestern suburb?
Answer: Midlothian

Question: Where is Short Pump located in relation to Richmond?
Answer: west

Question: Richmond was an important city of what confederacy? 
Answer: the Powhatan Confederacy

Question: Richmond was briefly settled by whom?
Answer: English colonists from Jamestown

Question: When did Jamestown Colonist settle in Richmond?
Answer: 1609, and in 1610–1611

Question: When was present day Richmond founded?
Answer: 1737

Question: what famous speech did Patrick Henry give in Richmond?
Answer: Give me liberty or give me death

Question: When was Richmond first settled?
Answer: 1609

Question: When was the City of Richmond founded?
Answer: 1737

Question: What famous revolutionary war speech was given in Richmond?  Where?
Answer: Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech in 1775 at St. John's Church

Question: What 'side' was Richmond on in the Civil War?
Answer: Confederate

Question: Who wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: What was the nationality of the people who settled Richmond in 1609?
Answer: English

Question: In what year was the current city of Richmond founded?
Answer: 1737

Question: What famous speech did Patrick Henry give in Richmond?
Answer: Give me liberty or give me death

Question: In what building did Patrick Henry give his famous speech?
Answer: St. John's Church

Question: Who was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: What things are important to the economy of Richmond?
Answer: law, finance, and government, with federal, state, and local governmental agencies

Question: What judicial branches are located in Richmond?
Answer: The city is home to both the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, one of 13 United States courts of appeals

Question: There is a Federal Reserve Bank located in Richmond.  How many are there, total?
Answer: 12 Federal Reserve Banks

Question: Name a Fortune 500 company with it's headquarters in Richmond
Answer: Dominion Resources and MeadWestvaco

Question: Along with law and finance, what is a major component of Richmond's economy?
Answer: government

Question: What circuit of the US Court of Appeals is based in Richmond?
Answer: Fourth

Question: How many circuit courts of appeal are there in the United States?
Answer: 13

Question: How many Federal Reserve Banks exist?
Answer: 12

Question: Along with MeadWestvaco, what Fortune 500 company is based in Richmond?
Answer: Dominion Resources

Question: What year did Patrick Henry give his speech?
Answer: 1775

Question: What happened on April 18, 1780?
Answer: the state capital was moved from the colonial capital of Williamsburg to Richmond

Question: What did Patrick Henry's speech encourage to happen?
Answer: Virginia's participation in the First Continental Congress and setting the course for revolution and independence

Question: What's one reason the capital was moved to Richmond?
Answer: to isolate the capital from British attack

Question: Who was Governor of Virginia in 1781
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: What did Patrick Henry's famous speech persuade Virginians to send delegates to?
Answer: First Continental Congress

Question: What was the capital of Virginia prior to Richmond?
Answer: Williamsburg