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Chapter 18—Americans in World War II
MULTIPLE CHOICE
-----1. Soviet forces fought the Axis Powers and, in late January 1943, won the
a. Battle of Leningrad.
c. Battle of St. Petersburg.
b. Battle of Stalingrad.
d. Battle of the Ukraine.
-----2. An important Allied victory that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia was the
a. Battle of the Coral Sea.
c. Battle of Leyte Gulf.
b. Battle of the Atlantic.
d. Battle of Okinawa.
-----3. Who was given command of all U.S. Army units in the Pacific?
a. George S. Patton
c. Douglas MacArthur
b. Bernard Montgomery
d. Dwight D. Eisenhower
-----4. The place linked to the promise “I shall return” is
a. Midway.
c. the Coral Sea.
b. Bataan.
d. Okinawa.
-----5. Who commanded the German Afrika Korps and was known as the Desert Fox?
a. Chester Nimitz
c. Douglas MacArthur
b. Erwin Rommel
d. Irving Berlin
-----6. Germany’s final counterattack was
a. D-Day.
b. the Battle of the Atlantic.
c. the Battle of Midway.
d. the Battle of the Bulge.
-----7. On D-Day, the Allies landed at
a. Calais.
b. Belle Isle.
c. Normandy.
d. Anzio.
-----8. Which was perhaps the bloodiest battle of the war in the Pacific?
a. Okinawa
c. Iwo Jima
b. Midway
d. Coral Sea
-----9. Who led British forces to victory in North Africa?
a. Bernard Montgomery
c. Dwight D. Eisenhower
b. Erwin Rommel
d. Douglas MacArthur
----10. Who was the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet?
a. Chester Nimitz
c. George S. Patton
b. Dwight D. Eisenhower
d. Bernard Montgomery
MATCHING
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. V-2s
b. Carlos E. Castañeda
c. War Production Board
d. Yalta Conference
e. Fair Employment Practices Committee
f. genocide
g. Office of War Mobilization
h. Selective Training and Service Act
i. V-E Day
j. Holocaust
k. Berlin
l.
m.
n.
o.
p.
q.
r.
s.
t.
u.
v.
Iwo Jima
Harry S Truman
internment
Elie Wiesel
Hiroshima
Auschwitz
Battle of Midway
A. Philip Randolph
island-hopping
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Manhattan Project
-----1. long-range German rockets fired at cities in England and Belgium
-----2. city on which the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb
-----3. survived the death camps and became a famous writer
-----4. had to decide whether to use the atomic bomb against Japan
-----5. marked the formal end of the war in Europe
-----6. the slaughter of Jews in Europe
-----7. the intentional annihilation of an entire people
-----8. where postwar peace was discussed
-----9. protested discrimination against African Americans by leading a march on Washington, D.C.
----10. Japanese Americans were forced into camps
----11. fought for better working conditions for Mexican Americans
----12. created the first peacetime draft in U.S. history
----13. created to increase military production
----14. won by the United States after they broke the Japanese secret code
----15. coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort
----16. created to enforce Roosevelt’s order banning racial discrimination in defense plants and government
offices
----17. major Nazi death camp
----18. location of bunker where Hitler died
----19. U.S. strategy of seizing only strategic Japanese-held lands
----20. islands on which U.S. Marines victoriously planted the American flag after a hard-fought battle