Lesson 1 - Events That Shaped our World

________ 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

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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt Joseph Stalin Winston Churchill (british)

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

Select the two important issues discussed at the Yalta Conference.

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

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

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

Select the two movie studio contributions to the war effort.

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

Audie Murphy

This Texas native became the most decorated soldier in U.S. Army history.

Chester W. Nimitz

This admiral and Texas native led the Pacific Fleet during World War II.

Dwight Eisenhower

This general served as supreme commander for the Allied forces in Europe during World War II and as Army Chief of Staff after the war.

Douglas MacArthur

This general was in charge of defending the Philippines and later coordinated the island-hopping campaign across the Southwest Pacific.

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

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

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.

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

Aircraft ________ were indispensable in the wide Pacific Theater. In the Atlantic, smaller __________ and corvettes combated German ________

carriers destroyers u-boats

Select the six ways the OWI got their message across.

movies direct mail posters television newsreels radio

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

rockets

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

scrap

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

sonar radar

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

tanks

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

victory

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

women