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WorksheetsChapter 21 Lesson 2 Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
The turning point in the Pacific Front was the Battle of __________ in 1942 because after that battle the Japanese were on the defensive until the end of the war.
Midway
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Leyte Gulf
What battle in the Pacific Front prevented the Japanese from taking over Australia was the _______?
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Midway
The U.S. counter-attack on Japan after Pearl Harbor was the flight of B-25 bombers that were called ____________?
Doolittle's Raid
Kassel's Mission
Hells Angels Mission
Pilsen's Raid
Executive Order 9066 did which of the following?
Allowed the Department of Defense to move Japanese-Americans to re-location centers further inland.
Allowed Japanese-Americans to attend public schools.
Allowed Japanese-Americans to volunteer for the war.
Allowed Japanese-Americans to work in the United States.
The military strategy in the Pacific was aimed at __________?
An invasion of Japan as soon as the Allies could get the troops from Europe to help out.
Giving the Japanese Australia in hopes that they would not want anymore land.
Leapfrogging from island to island and using the islands as bases for moving closer to the Philippines and Japan.
Dropping the atomic bomb on any island occupied by the Japanese.
Japanese suicide pilots were called _________?
Kamikazes
Yamamoto Tojo's
Kyushu Winds
Toyoto Son's
Two commanders were charge of the war in the Pacific. They were ______ and ______?
Curtis LeMay and Benjamin Davis, Jr.
Omar Bradley and Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Short and Husband Kimmel
Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz
The forced marched of 78,000 Americans to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on the southern end of Luzon in April 1942, was called the _________?
Doolittle March
Bataan Death March
Leap-frogging March
Code Talker Death March
Those American Indians that earned the moniker “code-talkers” were from the ________ tribe.
Cheyenne
Pueblo
Cherokee
Navajo
The largest naval battle of World War II was the Battle of _________ Gulf in the Philippines. It took place in October 1944.
Luzon
Leyte
Mindanao
Panay
Chester Nimnitz had trouble getting his marines and soldiers onto the island of Tarawa because _____?
the island had tall cliffs all around it and the marines and soldiers could not find a way to get onto the island.
the island had so many poisonous snakes on it that it made it difficult to get on shore.
the island is a volcano and was erupting during the time of the battle.
the island is a coral reef atoll and the marines and soldiers had to wade through shoulder deep water to make it ashore.
What commander was in charge of the southwestern South Pacific and prevented New Guinea from falling into the hands of the Japanese?
General George S. Patton
General Douglas MacArthur
Admiral Chester Nimitz
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
What commander was in charge of "island hopping" in the central South Pacific and led troops through the Gilbert, Marianna, Marshall and Caroline islands?
General Douglas MacArthur
General Omar Bradley
General George C. Marshall
Admiral Chester Nimitz
Who spoke the famous words, "Filipino people, I shall return," when he was asked by FDR to leave the Philippines and go to Australia?
Admiral William D. Leahy
General Douglas MacArthur
Admiral William Halsey
General Walter Short
The Americans were able to ambush the Japanese at the Battle of Midway in 1942 because ______?
The Americans had broken the Japanese naval code
The Americans had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The Americans had captured the Japanese emperor, Hirohito
The Americans had sunk Japanese submarines off the coast of Hawaii
In the Battle of Coral Sea, the Japanese sank the aircraft carrier that George Phraner was transferred to. It was the U.S.S. _____?
Hornet
Constitution
Lexington
Oklahoma
What was "island hopping"?
It was the process of taking important islands from the Japanese and then "leap-frogging" to the next island to rid it of Japanese troops.
It was the process of breaking the enemy's naval and diplomatic codes and using them to our advantage.
It was the process of landing troops on islands in the South Pacific with helicopters, especially the Huey helicopter.
It was the process of torpedoing Japanese aircraft carriers camouflage as small islands.
The vehicle that was the most valuable in approaching islands in the central South Pacific was the _____?
Armoured Cars
Panzer Tanks
Amphtracs or Landing Vehicles
Half-Track Personnel Carriers
The high altitude long range bomber that proved to be effective for conducting raids on Japan from the Mariana Islands was the _____?
B-17 Flying Fortress
B-24 Liberator
B-25 Mitchell
B-29 Superfortress
Many Japanese soldiers hid in the jungles of the Philippines as the Allies re-took the islands in 1944-45. The last Japanese solider to come out of the jungle in 1974 was _____?
Akari Yamamoto
Hiroo Onoda
Ichiro Suzuki
Riko Kobayashi
