Chapter 27 Test Review

Battle of the Coral SeaDouglas MacArthurBataan

Battle of the BulgeNormandyOkinawa

Bernard MontgomeryChester NimitzV-2

Yalta ConferencegenocideSelective Training and Service Act

V-E DayHolocaustBerlin

InternmentElie WieselHiroshima

AuschwitzBattle of MidwayGuadalcanal

FDRManhattan ProjectBushido

SonarBattle of the AtlanticRosie the Riveter

Zoot Suit RiotsDwight EisenhowerGeneral Patton

George C. MarshallOperation OverlordEnola Gay

Robert Oppenheimer Albert EinsteinPaul Tibbets

Fat Man and Little BoyWar BondsUSS Missouri

Erwin RommelIwo JimaWar Production Board

Harry TrumanNagasakiIsland Hopping

KamikazeBattle of Leyte GulfTuskegee Airmen

Operation TorchTrinityAleutian Islands

  1. An important Allied victory that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. ______
  2. Who was in charge of all U.S. Army units in the Pacific? Think “I shall return” ______
  3. Who was the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet? ______
  4. What place is linked to the promise “I shall return”? ______
  5. This battle was won by the U.S. after we broke a Japanese secret code. ______
  6. This was the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. ______
  7. The name given to the invasion of North Africa. ______
  8. This is what converted U.S. factories to wartime production during the war. ______
  9. The first Allied offensive in the Pacific. ______
  10. Japanese Americans were forced into camps. ______
  11. This was used to detect underwater objects like U-Boats. ______
  12. All black unit of fighter pilots in WWII. ______
  13. German general who led troops in Africa and defended the Atlantic Wall. ______
  14. The final German counter attack of WWII. ______
  15. On D-Day the allies landed at ______
  16. British general who commanded troops in North Africa and in Europe. ______
  17. Long range German rockets fired at Britain. ______
  18. He survived the death camps and became a famous writer. ______
  19. This marked the formal end of the war in Europe. ______
  20. The slaughter of Jews in Europe. ______
  21. The intentional extermination on an entire people. ______
  22. Where a post war peace plan for Europe was discussed. ______
  23. A major Nazi death camp. ______
  24. What was the bloodiest battle in the Pacific? ______
  25. He had to decide whether to use the Atomic bomb against Japan. ______
  26. Wrote a letter to FDR telling him about the possibility of building an atomic bomb. ______
  27. Pilot of the plane that Dropped the Atomic Bomb. ______
  28. Name of the man who headed the Manhattan Project. ______
  29. Name given to the woman who was shown on posters telling women to enter the work force. ______
  30. Two cities that the atomic bombs were dropped on. ______
  31. U.S. strategy of fighting against Japan during WWII. ______
  32. Code of the Samurai by which the Japanese soldiers fought. ______
  33. When U.S. Navy sailors attacked Mexican Americans in California. ______
  34. Code name for the D-Day invasion. ______
  35. Americans returned to the Philippines during this naval battle ______
  36. Ship Japan signed its surrender on. ______
  37. Plane that dropped the Atomic Bomb. ______

38. U.S. soil that was captured by Japan during WWII.

Short Answer:

What was the significance of stars in the window in WWII?

How was the draft in WWII different than any other?

How did Americans at home assist in the war effort?

What was the major advantage the U.S. had in WWII?

What agreements were made at the Yalta Conference?

What huge decision was President Truman faced with after the death of FDR?

What two things did the U.S. do to pay for the war?

What were the 5 beaches of Normandy and which ones did U.S. troops fight on?

What were the conditions like for troops in the Battle of the Bulge?

How did American factories change to assist the war effort?

How were African Americans treated unfairly at home in the workforce and in the military?

Explain what happened to Japanese Americans during WWII.

What was the date of D-Day

Look at the graph on pg 827. What country lost the most people in WWII? Which lost the least?