Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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| 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. | | | | |
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| 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. | | | | |
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| 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 | | | | |
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| 4. | The
place linked to the promise “I shall return” is A. | Midway. | C. | the Coral
Sea. | B. | Bataan. | D. | Okinawa. | | | | |
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| 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 | | | | |
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| 6. | Germany’s final counterattack was A. | D-Day. | C. | the Battle of
Midway. | B. | the Battle of the Atlantic. | D. | the Battle of the Bulge. | | | | |
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| 7. | On
D-Day, the Allies landed at A. | Calais. | C. | Normandy. | B. | Belle
Isle. | D. | Anzio. | | | | |
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| 8. | Which
was perhaps the bloodiest battle of the war in the Pacific? A. | Okinawa | C. | Iwo
Jima | B. | Midway | D. | Coral
Sea | | | | |
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| 9. | Who
led British forces to victory in North Africa? A. | Bernard Montgomery | C. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | B. | Erwin
Rommel | D. | Douglas
MacArthur | | | | |
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| 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 | | | | |
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Matching
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Match each item with the correct statement. A. | V-2s | L. | Iwo
Jima | B. | Carlos E.
Castañeda | M. | Harry S
Truman | C. | War Production Board | N. | internment | D. | Yalta
Conference | O. | Elie
Wiesel | E. | Fair Employment Practices
Committee | P. | Hiroshima | F. | genocide | Q. | Auschwitz | G. | Office of War
Mobilization | R. | Battle of
Midway | H. | Selective Training and Service
Act | S. | A. Philip
Randolph | I. | V-E Day | T. | island-hopping | J. | Holocaust | U. | Franklin D.
Roosevelt | K. | Berlin | V. | Manhattan Project | | | | |
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| 11. | long-range German rockets fired at cities in England and Belgium
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| 12. | city
on which the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb
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| 13. | survived the death camps and became a famous writer
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| 14. | had
to decide whether to use the atomic bomb against Japan
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| 15. | marked the formal end of the war in Europe
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| 16. | the
slaughter of Jews in Europe
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| 17. | the
intentional annihilation of an entire people
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| 18. | where
postwar peace was discussed
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| 19. | protested discrimination against African Americans by leading a march on Washington,
D.C.
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| 20. | Japanese Americans were forced into camps
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| 21. | fought for better working conditions for Mexican Americans
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| 22. | created the first peacetime draft in U.S. history
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| 23. | created to increase military production
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| 24. | won
by the United States after they broke the Japanese secret code
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| 25. | coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort
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| 26. | created to enforce Roosevelt’s order banning racial discrimination in defense
plants and government offices
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| 27. | major
Nazi death camp
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| 28. | location of bunker where Hitler died
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| 29. | U.S.
strategy of seizing only strategic Japanese-held lands
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| 30. | islands on which U.S. Marines victoriously planted the American flag after a
hard-fought battle
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