U.S History - 1st 6 - Part 2

What is the correct order of the events?

• 3, 2, 1

• 3, 1, 2

• 1, 2, 3

• 
  2, 3, 1

An important European battle site for Americans in both World War I and World War II was the _____ Forest.

• Black

• Bavarian

• Rhone

• Ardennes

In one of the turning points in World War II, the Soviets defeated the German army at –

• Leningrad.

• Moscow.

• Stalingrad.

• Kiev.

Where did the Allies first attempt to open a second front to help the Soviet Union?

• France

• Finland

• North Africa

• Italy

Germany's last desperate attempt to break through Allied lines on Oct. 1944 was the –

• Battle of Verdun.

• Battle of Stalingrad.

• Battle of the Bulge.

• Battle of Sicily.

In an early decision of the major Allied leaders, the war effort would be focused first on –

• South Pacific islands then Japan.

• Central Asia then the Pacific Islands.

• Europe then eastern Russia.

• Europe then the Pacific.

Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious landing ever, was –

• the plan to drop the first atomic bomb

• the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific.

• the invasion of Italy.

• the Normandy invasion plan.

A turning point in 1942 at the Pacific Theater occurred on and around the islands of –

• Iwo Jima.

• Midway.

• Saipan.

• Okinawa.

Which of the following took place in Germany on Kristallnacht?

• Germany invaded Poland.

• Thousand of Jews were deported.

• Hitler overthrew the German government.

• 
  Businesses owned by Jews were destroyed.

The supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe who planned and executed the D-Day invasion was–

• Dwight D. Eisenhower.

• George M. Patton.

• Douglas MacArthur.

• George C. Marshall.