Chapter 26 America in a World at War

In World War II, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to

• mount two offensive campaigns to attack from two directions

• concentrate U.S. forces into one large offensive moving west from the Marshall Islands

• quickly recapture the Midway Islands from the Japanese

• establish a strong defensive position in the Solomon Islands to lure in the Japanese

In World War II, one of the primary American commanders in the Pacific was

• Omar Bradley

• George Marshall

• George Patton

• Chester Nimitz

The Battle of Midway in 1942

• saw the U.S. suffer great losses

• was a stunning defeat of the Japanese navy.

• lasted four days

• All of these answers is correct

After 1943, the U.S. advanced on Japan primarily with the aide of forces from

• the Dutch and the Soviet Union

• England and the Soviet Union

• Australia and New Zealand

• The Soviet Union and China

In 1943, the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was

• the Soviet Union

• China

• Great Britain

• the United States

In 1942-1943, the British and American war effort against the Nazis concentrated on

• freeing France from German control

• supporting the Russians

• fighting in North Africa

• protecting England

In 1943, in a meeting in Casablanca, the Allied decided they would next invade

• Greece

• Sicily

• France

• Cyprus

During World War II, the first Axis country to be defeated was

• Italy

• Japan

• Austria

• Spain

Between 1939 and 1945, the federal budget of the United States

• halved

• doubled

• tripled

• rose ten-fold

During World War II, organized labor in the U.S.

• lost membership as wages rose across most industries

• frequently used the threats of strikes to obtain higher wages

• agree to freeze union memership and wages until the war was over

• won automatic union membership for new defense-plant workers