WorksheetsAllied Leaders and Battles of WW2 Test Review
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 39mins
Secured an importance alliance with Great Britain, Soviet Union.
On December 8, 1941, the day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, he appeared before a joint session of Congress, which declared war on Japan.
Approved the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (on August 6) and Nagasaki (on August 9).
He spent the next two and a half years commanding an island-hopping campaign in the Pacific before famously returning to liberate the Philippines in October 1944.
Appointed supreme commander of the Allied Force and given the responsibility of spearheading the planned Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe (AKA D-Day).
Turned USSR into an industrial super power
Used scorched-earth policy to stop the German invasion of the USSR
Prime Minister/Dictator of Italy
Used up most of his military taking over Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Albania
Authorized attack on Pearl Harbor
In WW2 D-Day Where did the Americans land
France Normandy
Germany Belgium
Japan Nagasaki
portugal spain
June of 1942, Battle of Midway, US Navy sinks.....
10 Japanese aircraft carriers and 8 battleships, clearly winning the battle and turning the tide on the Japanese
none of the Japanese ships and is pushed back to Hawaii
13 Japanese battle ships but still loses the Battle of Midway
four Japanese aircraft carriers, scoring a clear victory The Japanese begin losing ground.
The 1st Marine Division lands on Guadalcanal on....
Aug 7th 1942
Aug 7th 1945
Aug 7th 1939
Aug 7th 1940
In February of 1945, 30,000 U. S. Marines land in one day on the tiny island of _________ putting them in bombing range of Japan.
Singapore
Iwo Jima
Papua New Guinea
Tasmania
-Fought in the deserts of Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria
- The two sides pushed each other’s armies across the desert trying to control North Africa
- In Nov. of 1942, the U.S. invaded North Africa (Operation Torch) and with the help of the British pushed the Axis powers back to Italy
- Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan wanted to sink the remaining American aircraft carriers in the Pacific.
- the U.S. was able to prepare for the attack.
- U.S. Dive Bomber planes were able to sink 4 fleet carriers and destroy 322 Japanese aircrafts.
- This was the first major battle for the United States in the Pacific, and the turning point in the war.
- The goal was to push the German forces completely out of Italy.
- The allies thought it would be an easy campaign, but the rugged terrain and German reinforcements made it harder than originally planned.
- The allies were eventually able to push the Germans back but never completely out of Italy.
- The U.S. needed a base near the Japanese coast where planes and ships could return.
- The Japanese did not defend the beaches of the island but instead went inland using a series of tunnels and dugouts.
- American marines got involved in costly warfare trying to find the Japanese soldiers in the caves, dugouts, and tunnels.
- Last major battle in the pacific
- Japanese planes took part in one-way suicide missions.
- The U.S needed to control the island in order to invade Japan.
- The U.S. wanted to destroy what was left of Japan’s naval fleet and control the airstrips on the island to be able to conduct air raids on the mainland of Japan.
Hitler invaded this country and officially began WW2 on this date:
Poland; September 1, 1939
Czechslovakia; September 1, 1939
Poland; December 1939
France; June 6, 1944
The Allied invasion at Normandy that liberated France and eventually Europe occurred on ____________ and is known as _____________.
June 6, 1944; D-Day
June 6, 1944; Pearl Harbor Day
December 7, 1941; Dunkirk Day
July 4, 1944; Paris Day
Hitler shot himself in a Berlin bunker on ________________ so that he would not have to surrender, be tortured, or humiliated.
April 30, 1945
April 12, 1945
May 8, 1945
September 2, 1945
British and French soldiers were driven to the English Channel by the Germans and rescued by private boats of the British at:
Dunkirk
London
Stalingrad
Paris
The Germans bombed these people for months. Citizens were hiding in subways and basements for safety. The Royal Air Force was down to the last bit of fuel and held off the Luftwaffe.
Battle of Britain
Dunkirk
Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
The Germans captured 90% of this city but after winter set in, the Soviets were able to trap them and starve them out. The Soviets won but lost 1.1 million people in this battle alone.
Stalingrad
Leningrad
Warsaw
Moscow
