US History Unit 6 Quiz 2
Match the people to the statements.
Douglas MacArthur - ordered by President Roosevelt to escape the Philippines in order to build new army Dwight D. Eisenhower - general sent by President Roosevelt to North Africa to conduct Operation Torch Benito Mussolini - captured and executed by partisans Winston Churchill - became Prime Minister of Great Britain after resignation of Neville Chamberlain
Righteous _____ were non Jews who assisted Jews during World War II.
Gentiles
The Japanese formed the _____ to create one large entity of orlental nations free from foreign (Western) influence.
Greater East Asia CoProsperity Sphere
_____ was a militant leader of the Japanese government.
Hideki Tojo
In June 1940, _____ entered the war on the side of Germany.
Italy
The _____ captured the British colonies of Singapore, Burma, and Hong Kong.
Japanese
Fear of spying and sabotage led the U.S. government to place many _____ in War Relocation Camps.
Japanese Americans
AntiSemitism is hatred directed at _____.
Jews
Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, business, and synagogues during the _____, or night of broken glass.
Kristallnacht
The _____ Act allowed the United States to become the "Arsenal of Democracy," according to Roosevelt, by supplying allies with war materials.
Lend-Lease
Passage of the _____ Laws stripped Jews of all their civil rights.
Nuremberg
Jews refer to the Holocaust as the _____, or "the catastrophe."
Shoah
After liberating North Africa, Allied forces next target _____.
Sicily
Which event was Winston Churchill referring to when he said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. "?
The Battle of Britain
The WAC was a women's support unit for the _____.
army
To help financially, Americans purchased war _____.
bonds
In 1940, America leased fifty obsolete _____ to Great Britain in exchange for naval bases.
destroyers
Germans constructed extermination camps with _____ that could kill up to 2,000 people at a time.
gas champers
The United States did not change its _____ laws to help Jews escape Europe.
immigration
WAVES served in the _____.
navy
The surprise attack on December 7, 1941 which compelled America to declare war on Japan was the _____.
raid on Pearl Harbor
Americans were required to _____ certain goods in order to supply troops.
ration
By the end of the war more than _____ Jews had been murdered by the Third Reich.
six million
The Battle of the Atlantic featured German _____ against Allied shipping.
submarines
It became apparent to most Americans that the United States could not stand by and watch democracy being swallowed up by _____.
totalitarianism
_____ stated in his autobiography that he intended to eradicate all Jews from Germany.
Adolf Hitler
A(n) _____ embargo on shipping of oil, aviation fuel, scrap iron, and steel encouraged Japan to forcibly seek resources from Asian neighbors.
American
The battle for Europe began in the _____ Ocean.
Atlantic
On which continent was World War II not being waged by 1940?
Australia
During the _____ nearly 10,000 American and Filipino troops died from exposure, disease, and cruel treatment by Japanese captors.
Bataan Death March
Match the events with their significance.
Battle of the Atlantic - first part of the war for Europe Battle of Kasserine Pass - first major battle for American forces in North Africa Japanese conquer Burma - cut off the road supplying the Chinese armies of Chiang Kai Shek Battle of Britain - prevented Hitler from completing Operation Sea Lion Battle of Wake Island - small group of American marines repelled one invasion before the Japanese returned with 1,500 men
Which group was not victimized during the Holocaust?
British prisoners of war
