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AH5.5 World War II: Military Strategy

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was President of the United States when we entered WW2?

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Harry Truman

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

2.

What day did the Japanese conduct sneak attack on the American military port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?

a)

December 7th, 1941

b)

December 7th, 1942

c)

December 9th, 1941

d)

December 9th, 1942

3.

Which General leads U.S. forces North from Australia to retake the Philippines?

a)

Gen. Kenobi

b)

Gen. Dwight Eisenhower

c)

Gen. J. Robert Oppenheimer

d)

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

4.

Naval battle that becomes turning point for WW2 in the Pacific Theatre?

a)

battle of Midway

b)

battle of Iwo Jima

c)

battle of Leyte Gulf

d)

battle of Okinawa

5.

At which conference did the "Big Three" Allied leaders first meet?

a)

Casablanca Conference

b)

Potsdam Conference

c)

Yalta Conference

d)

Tehran Conference

6.

What decision was made during the Tehran Conference?

a)

divide Germany into four military zones at the end of the war

b)

attempt to defeat Germany first, then Japan

c)

create a new international peace keeping organization

d)

opening a western front with an invasion in Western Europe in 1944

7.

What major event took place during D-Day?

a)

Turning point of the War in the Pacific

b)

Western Allied invasion of Europe

c)

Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union

d)

America's first combat in WWII

8.

what was the Manhattan project?

a)

project to increase U.S. air force power

b)

creating 2,000 incendiary bombs to drop on Japan

c)

building the first atomic bomb

d)

building canal through Japan

9.

Where was the first atomic bomb dropped?

a)

Nagasaki

b)

Hamamatsu

c)

Hiroshima

d)

Nagano

10.

what day did Japanese leaders surrender, ending

the war in the Pacific and ending WWII?

a)

August 15th, 1944

b)

August 15th, 1945

c)

August 17th, 1944

d)

August 17th,1945