KHS US History CH 7 Quiz 7.5 Eastern Europe Pacific and Africa

By the end of 1943, which group was building more ships than the Germans could sink - the Allied powers or Axis powers?

What Soviet cities were protected from Hitler's Armies in late 1941 due to a harsh winter and Soviet resistance?

• Kiev and Minsk

• Moscow and Leningrad

• Warsaw and Prague

• Stalingrad and Budapest

In late October and early November of 1942, British General Bernard Montgomery kicked the Germans out of ________________ and began pushing Rommel’s Afrika Korps westward across North Africa.

• Algeria

• Egypt

• Morocco

• Tunisia

Operation Torch, headed by General Dwight Eisenhower, landed American and Allied tanks and troops at points in ________________ and ________________.

• Morocco and Algeria

• Libya and Egypt

• Tunisia and Libya

• Egypt and Morocco

The mission of Operation Torch was to fight East across North Africa and meet up with Montgomery’s British forces in what country?

Rommel’s forces surrendered to the Allies in May of what year?

On April 18, 1942, 16 bombers under the command of Colonel ________ left the carrier USS Hornet.

• James Doolittle

• Douglas MacArthur

• Chester Nimitz

• George Patton

All ________ bombers ran out of fuel after dropping their bombs and were forced to crash land in ________.

• Sixteen; China

• Twelve; Japan

• Twenty; Korea

• Ten; Philippines

To fix the security flaw revealed by the Doolittle raid, the Japanese would have to destroy the remnants of the US fleet in the Pacific and capture what island or territory?

How many of Japan's aircraft carriers were sunk at the Battle of Midway?