World War II turning points

In 1941, how did the US know Japan no longer planned to negotiate?

• US spy planes saw the Japanese preparing for an attack

• US broke the Japanese Code

• the Japanese walked out of negotiations

• the US attacked Japan

Much of the fighting in the Pacific was done with

• tanks

• machettis

• airplanes and aircraft carriers

• submarines

He was the American naval commander in the Pacific.

• Douglas MacArthur

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Erwin Rommel

• Chester Nimitz

The turning point battle in the Pacific is considered to be

• Coral Sea

• Guadalcanal

• Midway

• Iwo Jima

The Germans invaded the Soviet Union during Operation

• Barbarossa

• Wildcat

• Omaha

• Stalingrad

The turning point battle on the Eastern European front is

• Leningrad

• Barbarossa

• Stalingrad

• Walesa

The turning point battle in the African front was

• El Alamein

• Casablanca

• Morocco

• none of the above

American troops saw their first action in North Africa with

• D-Day

• Operation Torch

• Operation Omaha

• Operation Ike

A major battle won in February 1943 against the Japanese was

• Pearl Harbor

• Guadalcanal

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

Winston Churchill thought it would be easy to conquer Italy, called it

• "the Iron Curtain"

• "the Lamb"

• "the Easy Prey"

• "the soft underbelly of Europe"