Chapter 17

This great sea battle dealt a deadly blow to the Japanese navy, in Which three Japanese battleships were ruined and sank avenginga Pearl Harbor

Battle of Midway

The general who led Allied troops in battles on the islands of Bataan, Leyte, and Iwo Jima was

Douglas MacAurthur

The Supreme Commander of U.S. forces in Europe was

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Truman's aim in deciding to drop the atomic bomb was to _______

End the war and save American lives

V-E Day on May 8, 1945 was the day when _______

Germany surrendered

The date of D-Day was

June 6, 1944

The Battle of the Bulge was significant because it marked the _______

Last German offensive

The Allied invasion of _______ was given the code name D-Day

Nazi-occupied Europe

D-Day stands for

The day of invasion of France

The elite WW2 African American pilots were known as the

Tuskegee Airmen

In the Battle of Stalingrad, all of the following contributed to the Soviet victory except

a massive allied invasion

In deciding to use the atomic bomb against Japan, President Truman's main goal was to

end the war quickly

Japanese Americans who lived on the west coast were subject to _____ during the war

internment

Germany's goal in the Battle of the Atlantic was to

keep food and water supplies from reaching Great Britain and the Soviet Union

During the war, women in the WAAC's served as

nurses and radio operators

Roosevelt's decision to remove people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps was a response to

strong anti-Japanese sentiment

The GI Bill of Rights make it possible for

veterans to attend college for free