11th Grade War and Peace Unit Test

Douglas MacArthur  lead US troops in the Pacific

• True

• False

Which of the following countries was NOT a member of the Axis Powers?

• Germany

• Great Britain 

• Italy 

• Japan

What is Blitzkrieg?

• Nazi Air Force

• German term for the Holocaust

• Using absolutely no calvary

• Fighting fast with many soldiers

What did the Lend-Lease Act do? 

• Stated that America would not support any countries war effort 

• Loaned American weapons and supplies to Allied Forces 

• Lent ships to the Japanese in their war against Russia

• It is the official name of the Dawes Plan 

What was the significance of D-Day?

• First time Allied forces had been on the European continent since Dunkirk 

• Codename for the liberation of German concentration camps 

• Americas first time bombing Japan 

• Raid on Nazi animal testing laboratoires

The attack on which US military base got America involved in World War II? 

• Pearl Harbor

• Fort Benning

• Fort Brag

• Paris Island

Which president authorized the use of atomic bombs developed during the Manhattan Project?

• Hoover

• Roosvelt

• Truman 

• Eisenhower

How did the Cuban Missile Crisis End? 

• Shortages in Cuba forced the government to give the missile back to the Soviets

• The US economy was negatively effected so the blockade had to stop 

• Missiles were removed form Cuba and Turkey, and the US agreed to not invade Cuba

• SALT was signed 

SALT I required the US and the Soviet Union to reduce their nuclear missile stockpiles

• True

• False

Declared Vietnam’s independence from France 

• Lyndon B Johnson

• Lee Harvey Oswald

• Fidel Castro

• Ho Chi Minh