Lesson 1 Unit 7

14) General ___________ was in charge of the Allied forces fighting in the Southwest Pacific and would remain in charge of troops in the Far East after World War II.

Douglas MacArthur

13) General ___________ served as supreme commander for the Allied forces in Europe during World War II and as Army Chief of Staff after the war.

Dwight Eisenhower

1) In February, 1945, the Big ____ met in ____, the Crimea, to discuss the future of Germany and of the governing of other ____ nations that had been occupied by Germany.

Three Yalta European

8) Every nation involved in World War II depended upon ___________ and other armored vehicles for a variety of purposes.

tanks

17) Select the two important issues discussed at the Yalta Conference.

- The leaders discussed whether the Soviet Union would participate in the United Nations. - The leaders discussed the prosecution of war crimes by the Germans.

21) Select the two movie studio contributions to the war effort.

- The troops were shown movies that helped to keep up their morale. - The studios kept people interested in the fronts and provided positive portrayals of people sacrificing for the war effort.

15) ________ earned every medal for valor offered by the United States (33 in all), including the Medal of Honor, and killed or captured more than 240 Axis soldiers.

Audie Murphy

16) Select the three leaders belonging to the "Big Three."

Franklin D. Roosevelt Joseph Stalin Winston Churchill

18) What was the Office of War Information's message to American troops?

The people at home are doing everything they can to help you.

4) Americans planted ________ in their yards, growing food for their families, so that commercial produce could be sent overseas for the military and for refugees.

Victory Gardens

19) What was the Office of War Information's message to people in enemy territory?

You should quit, because the Americans are coming, and you will be defeated, but we do not want to harm you.

12) Although the threat of further use of _________ weapons has remained high for more than sixty years, no nation has chosen to use them since the time they were first detonated during World War II.

atomic

9) Planes advanced from wooden and canvas ____ to 300-mph ____ with machine guns and light bombs.

biplanes fighters

7) Aircraft ____ were indispensable in the wide Pacific Theater. In the Atlantic, smaller ____ and corvettes combated German ____.

carriers destroyers u-boats

20) Select the six ways the OWI got their message across.

newsreels direct mail television radio posters movies

concurrent

occurring at the same time

6) The ____ of ____ Information provided information to the people at home, to the troops in the field, and even to the public in enemy territories.

office war

10) With _______ and ________, planes and ships could fight effectively without visually sighting the enemy.

radar sonar

11) The introduction of __________ led to the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.

rockets

3) Children organized and participated in _________ drives to collect used iron, steel, brass, aluminum, and rubber for the war effort.

scrap

governance

the control of an area; governing

5) "V" stood for __________, and this theme was evident everywhere.

victory

2) American __________ took factory jobs and did hard manual labor to turn out artillery and ammunition.

women