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A review for the WHCP Chapter 16 Test
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1
What was the main target of the kamikazes?
Civilians
Air Bases
Ground Troops
Naval Ships
2
All of the following were advantages for the British in fighting the Battle of Britain EXCEPT:
Radar
Superior numbers of aircraft
Decoding of the Enigma machine
3
Who was the prime minister of Great Britain?
Buttston de Poolchurch
Winston Hillchurch
Binston Crackstill
Winston Churchill
4
Who was the mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack?
Hideki Nomo
Isoroku Yamamoto
Hideki Tojo
Emperor Hirohito
5
Which battle was considered the turning point in the Pacific for the U.S.?
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal
6
What was Hitler's plan to invade USSR called?
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Torch
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Overlord
7
What new battle strategy was 1
st
used in the Battle of the Coral Sea?
Radar
Kamikaze
Blitzkrieg
Aircraft Carriers
8
Which battle was the turning point in North Africa?
Algiers
El Alamein
Casablanca
Kasserine Pass
9
The first battle to use aircraft carriers was?
Leyte Gulf
Guadalcanal
Coral Sea
Ardennes Forest
10
Great Britain and France entered World War II because of?
Invasion of Finland
Invasion of Poland
Invasion of Italy
Invasion of Soviet Union
11
What did Stalin repeatedly urge Churchill / Roosevelt do to relieve pressure on Soviet armies?
Invade France
Invade Italy
Invade Bluff Creek
Invade Germany
12
What was the leader of Free France?
Chandler de Gaulle
Henri Petain
Charles de Gaulle
Pehnri Hetain
13
When did World War II officially begin?
September 1st, 1938
September 1st, 1949
September 1st, 1939
September 1st, 1940
14
Who was the leader of the Vichy French?
Pehnri Hetain
Henri Petain
Chandler de Pepoop
Winston Churchill
15
Which general led the victorious troops in the Battle of El Alamein?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard Montgomery
Friedrich von Paulus
Erwin Rommel
16
Who was the Supreme commander of the Western Allied Forces in Europe?
George Patton
Bernard Montgomery
Dwight Eisenhower
Erwin Rommel
17
What was the date of V-E Day?
May 8th, 1945
September 2nd, 1945
November 9th, 1938
June 6th, 1944
18
What was the last Japanese offensive battle on the water called?
Leyte Gulf
Midway
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
19
Where were Nazi leaders tried for their war crimes?
Dresden
Wannasee
Berlin
Nuremberg
20
What was the date of Kristallnacht?
November 9th, 1938
September 2nd, 1945
May 8th, 1945
June 6th, 1944
21
Who was the leader of the Nazi Puppet Government (Vichy) in Southern France?
Henri Petain
Joseph Stalin
Pehnri Hetain
Adolf Hitler
22
Which of the following occurred on D-Day?
Allied invasion of France
Allied invasion of Italy
Allied bombing of Nagasaki
Allied invasion of Germany
23
Where did Churchill and Roosevelt meet to reach the decision to attack Italy first?
Mogadishu, Somalia
El Alamein, Egypt
Nuremberg, Germany
Casablanca, Morocco
24
T
he series of fortifications along the France-Germany border was known as?
Rommel Line
Sitzkrieg
Maginot Line
Luftwaffe Line
25
What type of government was created in post WWII Japan?
Parliamentary Democracy
Parliamentary Bipedal Hominoidism
Parliamentary Dictatorship
Parliamentary Constitutional Democratic Theocratic Democracy
26
Who divided up Poland in 1939?
Germany and Italy
Germany and Japan
Germany and Honey Island Swamp Monster's House
Germany and USSR
27
Which conference decided to invade Italy first?
Potsdam
Tehran
Casablanca
Geneva
28
Why were thousands of Japanese-Americans interned in relocation camps?
Their ancestry
Their unwillingness to aid the war effort
Their stated support of Japanese goals
Their need for protection
29
What translates into "Night of Broken Glass"?
Kristallnacht
Vehrmacht
Holocaust
Dresden
30
What was the name of Germany's air force?
Waffen SS
Luftwaffe
Vehrmacht
Kreigsmarine
31
Germany 1
st
successfully used the Blitzkrieg in an attack on?
Poland
USSR
Great Britain
France
32
What is the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
May 8th, 1945
December 7th, 1941
September 1st, 1939
November 9, 1938
33
Who was the US commander of the Pacific fleet?
Douglas MacArthur
Bob Gimlin
Chester Nimitz
Roger Patterson
34
Which of the following is an example of total war?
Dresden Firestorm
Battle of the Bulge
Leyte Gulf
Battle of Bigfoot
35
Who led efforts to draw up the Japanese constitution?
Hideki Tojo
Douglas MacArthur
Isoroku Yamamoto
Dwight Eisenhower
36
Who did Joseph Stalin sign the Nonaggression pact with?
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Erwin Rommel
Isoroku Yamamoto
37
The Atlantic Charter was a declaration of the right to freedom of?
economic self-determination
trade
airways
speech
38
Who led the Soviets in stopping the invasion of the USSR by the Nazi's?
Georgi Zhukov
Joseph Stalin
Chester Barbarossa
Charles de Gaulle
39
What group was tried at the Nuremberg Trials?
Luftwaffe
NAZI's
Communists
War criminals from ALL Axis Powers
40
Who led the American bombing attack on Tokyo?
Chester Nimitz
James Doolittle
Joseph Stalin
Erwin Rommel
41
What is the date of the Allied invasion of Normandy?
May 8th, 1945
June 6th, 1944
September 2nd, 1945
November 9th, 1938
42
What was Hitler's plan to invade Great Britain called?
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Overlord
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Torch
43
Who organized and oversaw the demilitarization of Japan?
US Army
US Congress
Emperor of Japan
Diet of Japan
