Who are the "Big Three" shown in the photo (left to right)?

Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill

Soviets boycotted UN due to Nationalist China recognition

Japan’s goal in attacking Midway Island in June 1942 was to

draw the U.S. fleet away from Pearl Harbor

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1
Turning point in the war that stopped the Japanese advance in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
Battle of Okinawa
Attack On Pearl Harbor
Battle of Coral Sea
2
D-Day
June 6, 1941
led by Douglas Mac Arthur
American Failure
Operation Overlord
3
Tough American general led Allied troops to success at Battle of the Buldge
George Patton
Matthew Ridgeway
Erwin Rommell
Bernard Montgomery
4
Which of the following is NOT a permanent member of the Security Council in the United Nations?
China
Canada
France
Russia
5
Germans area squeezed in North Africa between The British and Americans at
Iwo Jima
Munich
El Alamein
Stalingrad
6
Who are the "Big Three" shown in the photo (left to right)?
Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill
Stalin, Truman, Churchill
Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Stalin
Montgomery, Franklin Roosevelt, Khruschev
7
American commander in Europe during World War II
Erwin Rommell
Douglas Mac Arthiur
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman
8
Chinese Revolution
resulted in communists forced to the island of Taiwan
ended with American airlift
Soviets boycotted UN due to Nationalist China recognition
Communist leader Chang Kai-shek
9
What mission did Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle command at the beginning of the war?
defending the Philippines against attack
air bombing Tokyo
assassinating the Japanese emperor
moving carriers across the Pacific.
10
Japan’s goal in attacking Midway Island in June 1942 was to
use it to destroy American submarines.
draw the U.S. fleet away from Pearl Harbor
gain control of resources on the island.
cut American supply lines to Australia.
11
Commander of the U.S. navy in the Pacific
George Patton
Chester Nimitz
Douglas Mac Arthur
Matthew RIdgeway
12
Plane that dropped the first atomic bomb.
USS Arizona
Little Boy
U-2
Enola Gay
13
What did President Truman establish in 1947 to screen all federal employees?
HUAC
the subcommittee on investigations
the loyalty review program
Project Verona
14
Punish German leaders for war crimes.
Yalta
Nuremberg
Tuskegee
Tehran
15
State department official accused of being a Communist spy & convicted of perjury.
Chester Nimitz
Dean Acheson
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
16
Soviet leader following Joseph Stalin.
Vladimir Putin
Alger Hiss
Nikita Khruschev
Leon Trotsky

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