WW2 Questions

"A date which will live in infamy" was President Roosevelt's description of

• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• Hitler invading Poland

• Battle of Britain

• The Great Depression

Although officially neutral, the United States increasingly helped Britain through actions like

• The Neutrality Acts

• Lend Lease Act

• Embargo

• Battle of Britain

The event that started World War 2 was?

• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• Battle of Britain

• Japan invading China

• Germany invading Poland

What finally brought the United States into World War II?

• Hitler invaded Poland

• Sinking of the Lusitania

• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• The Lend Lease Act

The Pacific victory that ended the Japanese threat to Hawaii and encouraged additional victories island by island was the battle of?

• Guam

• Philippines

• Midway

• Iwo Jima

The liberation of Europe from Hitler began with the

• The battle of Stalingrad

• The invasion of Normandy off the coast of France

• The battle of the Bulge

• The battle of Iwo Jima

The principle war strategy that the United States and her allies agreed to pursue was to?

• Defeat Hitler first

• Defeat Japan first

• Control North Africa

• Sink Japanese ships

During World War II, the Allied strategy of targeting selected Pacific islands for conquest was called -

• Island hopping

• Pacific Pressure

• Kamikaze warfare

• The pacific conquest

What two battles brought the United States closer to a direct attack on Japan

• Battle of Iwo Jima

• Battle of Okinawa

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of Stalingrad

The Navajo code-talkers were instrumental in

• Breaking German communication codes

• Breaking Japans communication codes

• Creating a communication code that the Germans could not break

• Creating a communication code that the Japanese could not break