WWII Sections 3-5

The first priority of President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to defeat the Axis Powers was to

• place "Asia first"

• defeat the Germans

• aid Japan in the fight against China

• attack Italian forces in South Africa

The battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in the war because

• The Axis Powers began to retreat from the Soviet Union

• It secured the Suez canal

• The allies began pushing the Germans out of France

• Mussolini was executed

The day designated for the invasion of Normandy, when Allied troops began pushing German troops out of France was

• El Alamein

• Manhattan Project

• D-Day

• Stalingrad

Which American general led the Allies in North Africa and stopped the Afrika Korps?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Douglas MacArthur

• Chester Nimitz

• Louis Ortega

What American general was forced to retreat from the Philippines in March 1942?

• Hideki Tojo

• Chester Nimitz

• Louis Ortega

• Douglas MacArthur

tactic of purposely crashing piloted planes into enemy ships

• genocide

• kamikaze

• island hopping

• appeasement

Where more than 600 Americans and 10,000 Filipinos were starved and beaten by Japanese soldiers

• Bataan Death March

• Guadalcanal

• island hopping

• Battle of the Coral Sea

The secret program to develop the atomic bomb was known as the

• Manhattan Project

• Enola Gay

• D-Day Solution

• Holocaust

Harry Truman took over as president because President Roosevelt

• died of a stroke in April 1945

• lost his re-election bid in 1944

• chose not to run for a fourth term in 1944

• focused his efforts on aid to war-torn European countries rather than on domestic issues

strategy in which only important islands were taken, using each captured island as a base for the next attack

• kamikaze

• island hopping

• appeasement

• internment