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Chapter 21 Lesson 2 Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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.

a)

Midway

b)

Iwo Jima

c)

Okinawa

d)

Leyte Gulf

2.

What battle in the Pacific Front prevented the Japanese from taking over Australia was the _______?

a)

Battle of Leyte Gulf

b)

Battle of the Coral Sea

c)

Battle of Iwo Jima

d)

Battle of Midway

3.

The U.S. counter-attack on Japan after Pearl Harbor was the flight of B-25 bombers that were called ____________?

a)

Doolittle's Raid

b)

Kassel's Mission

c)

Hells Angels Mission

d)

Pilsen's Raid

4.

Executive Order 9066 did which of the following?

a)

Allowed the Department of Defense to move Japanese-Americans to re-location centers further inland.

b)

Allowed Japanese-Americans to attend public schools.

c)

Allowed Japanese-Americans to volunteer for the war.

d)

Allowed Japanese-Americans to work in the United States.

5.

The military strategy in the Pacific was aimed at __________?

a)

An invasion of Japan as soon as the Allies could get the troops from Europe to help out.

b)

Giving the Japanese Australia in hopes that they would not want anymore land.

c)

Leapfrogging from island to island and using the islands as bases for moving closer to the Philippines and Japan.

d)

Dropping the atomic bomb on any island occupied by the Japanese.

6.

Japanese suicide pilots were called _________?

a)

Kamikazes

b)

Yamamoto Tojo's

c)

Kyushu Winds

d)

Toyoto Son's

7.

Two commanders were charge of the war in the Pacific. They were ______ and ______?

a)

Curtis LeMay and Benjamin Davis, Jr.

b)

Omar Bradley and Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

Walter Short and Husband Kimmel

d)

Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz

8.

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 _________?

a)

Doolittle March

b)

Bataan Death March

c)

Leap-frogging March

d)

Code Talker Death March

9.

Those American Indians that earned the moniker “code-talkers” were from the ________ tribe.

a)

Cheyenne

b)

Pueblo

c)

Cherokee

d)

Navajo

10.

The largest naval battle of World War II was the Battle of _________ Gulf in the Philippines. It took place in October 1944.

a)

Luzon

b)

Leyte

c)

Mindanao

d)

Panay

11.

Chester Nimnitz had trouble getting his marines and soldiers onto the island of Tarawa because _____?

a)

the island had tall cliffs all around it and the marines and soldiers could not find a way to get onto the island.

b)

the island had so many poisonous snakes on it that it made it difficult to get on shore.

c)

the island is a volcano and was erupting during the time of the battle.

d)

the island is a coral reef atoll and the marines and soldiers had to wade through shoulder deep water to make it ashore.

12.

What commander was in charge of the southwestern South Pacific and prevented New Guinea from falling into the hands of the Japanese?

a)

General George S. Patton

b)

General Douglas MacArthur

c)

Admiral Chester Nimitz

d)

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

13.

What commander was in charge of "island hopping" in the central South Pacific and led troops through the Gilbert, Marianna, Marshall and Caroline islands?

a)

General Douglas MacArthur

b)

General Omar Bradley

c)

General George C. Marshall

d)

Admiral Chester Nimitz

14.

Who spoke the famous words, "Filipino people, I shall return," when he was asked by FDR to leave the Philippines and go to Australia?

a)

Admiral William D. Leahy

b)

General Douglas MacArthur

c)

Admiral William Halsey

d)

General Walter Short

15.

The Americans were able to ambush the Japanese at the Battle of Midway in 1942 because ______?

a)

The Americans had broken the Japanese naval code

b)

The Americans had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

c)

The Americans had captured the Japanese emperor, Hirohito

d)

The Americans had sunk Japanese submarines off the coast of Hawaii

16.

In the Battle of Coral Sea, the Japanese sank the aircraft carrier that George Phraner was transferred to. It was the U.S.S. _____?

a)

Hornet

b)

Constitution

c)

Lexington

d)

Oklahoma

17.

What was "island hopping"?

a)

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.

b)

It was the process of breaking the enemy's naval and diplomatic codes and using them to our advantage.

c)

It was the process of landing troops on islands in the South Pacific with helicopters, especially the Huey helicopter.

d)

It was the process of torpedoing Japanese aircraft carriers camouflage as small islands.

18.

The vehicle that was the most valuable in approaching islands in the central South Pacific was the _____?

a)

Armoured Cars

b)

Panzer Tanks

c)

Amphtracs or Landing Vehicles

d)

Half-Track Personnel Carriers

19.

The high altitude long range bomber that proved to be effective for conducting raids on Japan from the Mariana Islands was the _____?

a)

B-17 Flying Fortress

b)

B-24 Liberator

c)

B-25 Mitchell

d)

B-29 Superfortress

20.

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 _____?

a)

Akari Yamamoto

b)

Hiroo Onoda

c)

Ichiro Suzuki

d)

Riko Kobayashi