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Test Questions
100
Who was given command of all U.S. Army units in the Pacific?
Douglas MacArthur
100
This man led a march on Washington D.C., to protest discrimination against African Americans.
A. Philip Randolph
100
Thanks partly to the refinement of sonar, the Allies were able to win the Battle of...
the Atlantic.
100
The important Allied victory that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia was the...
The Battle of Coral Sea.
100
Deliberate annihilation of an entire people.
genocide.
200
Who was the commander of Afrika Korps known as the Desert Fox?
Erwin Rommel
200
Forced relocation of Japanese Americans.
internment.
200
On D-Day, the Allies landed at...
Normandy Beach.
200
What was perhaps the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war?
Okinawa.
200
The systematic slaughter of European Jews.
holocaust.
300
Who commanded the U.S. Pacific fleet?
Chester Nimitz
300
Tried to improve the working conditions for Mexican Americans in Texas.
Carlos E. Castaneda.
300
What was the German's final counterattack?
The Battle of the Bulge
300
He had to decide whether to use the atomic bomb against Japan.
President Harry S. Truman.
300
Provided for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
Selective Training and Service Act.
400
Who led the British forces to victory in North Africa?
Bernard Montgomery.
400
This fictional character became the symbol of patriotic female defense workers.
Rosie the Riveter.
400
Writer who was a survivor of the death camps.
Elie Wiesel.
400
Associated with Enrico Fermi and Leslie R. Groves.
The Manhattan Project.
400
True or False...Island-hopping was an effective policy adopted by the Japanese.
False
500
The promise "I shall return" is linked to what place?
Bataan.
500
The name given to the group of Mexican farm and railroad workers who came north to work in the Southwest during World War II.
Braceros.
500
Postwar peace was on the agenda at this.
The Yalta Conference.
500
True or false...The first atomic bomb exploded at Nagasaki.
False.
500
This American general led Allied troops in the invasion of Sicily.
George S. Patton.
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