The following quiz is presented for free use by students and teachers and was created by myself in my years teaching high school. 1.Did the Allies wait until VE day to begin their assault on Japan? (784)
2.What had been fortunate about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? (784)
3.Describe the Japanese Empire that had been taken in the first 6 months after Pearl Harbor (785)
4.Who was in command of the Pacific Islands in December of 1941?
5.What did President Roosevelt order that General to do? What did the General swear to do?
6.Describe Doolittle’s Raid of the Japanese mainland.
7.Describe the Battle of the Coral Sea
8.What country was saved by the Battle of Coral Sea?
9.What did the Battle of Coral Sea mark?
10.What was Midway?
11.Who was Chester Nimitz?
12.Describe the Battle of Midway
13.How many Japanese carriers were sunk?
14.Why was Midway the turning point in the Pacific War?
15.What is island hopping?
16.Where did the first Ally offensive occur? (787)
17.How long did it take to force the Japanese out of Guadacanal?
18.Describe Guadacanal.
19.What did McCarthur do in October of 1944?
20.What is a kamikaze?
21.How many ships did the kamikazes sink?
22.What did Japan lose at the battle of Leyte Gulf?
23.Describe Iwo Jima (789)
24.How many Japanese troops were stationed there?
25.What was the strategic importance of the island?
26.How many Americans died in taking the island?
27.How many Japanese soldiers survived?
28.How many ships were sunk, damaged and soldiers killed by kamikazes in taking Okinawa?
29.How many Americans died in Okinawa?
30.How many Japanese died in Okinawa?
31.Describe the deaths of the two Japanese generals.
32.Who led the Manhattan Project?
33.How many people worked on the project at its peak?
34.When did Truman learn about the project?
35.Describe the explosion of the first atomic bomb.
36.What was the name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb? (790)
37.What was the city it was dropped on?
38.What was the second city hit?
39.How many people died in the two attacks?
40.When did the war in Japan end?
41.Where was the treaty signed?
42.What was the Yalta Conference? (791)
43.What three leaders met there?
44.What did Stalin wish to do to Germany?
45.What role did President Roosevelt play?
46.What was the decision made regarding Germany?
47.What were the Nuremberg trials?( 792)
48.What was the fate of the defendants at the trial? (793)
49.What principle did the Nuremberg trials set in international law?
50.What was the fate of General Tojo?
51.What reforms did McCarther put in place in Japan?
52.What was the unemployment rate in 1944? (797)
53.What was the growing season like in the 40’s?
54.How many women worked during WW2?
55.What new professions did women enter during the war?
56.How many people migrated to California between 1941 and 1944?
57.Where did African Americans migrate to during this period?
58.What readjustments had to be made after the war to families? (798)
59.What types of people married during the early part of the war?
60.What was the G.I. Bill?
61.What did the war do for employment of African Americans?
62.What was the Congress of Racial Equality? (799)
63.Describe the Detroit Race Riot of 1943
64.What is a “zoot suit?”
65.Describe the zoot suit riots.
66.What false rumors spread about Japanese Americans? (800)
67.What is internment?
68.What percentage of the population on the west coast was Japanese?
69.What did Roosevelt sign on Feb 19, 1942?
70.What is a Nisei? (801)
71.What were Japanese Americans forced to do with their property?
72.What was Korematsu v. United States?
73.What was the Japanese American Citizens League?
74.How much money was given to compensate Japanese Americans for lost property by the JACL?
75. What reparations were given in 1990?
John Daniels is a former High School teacher turned computer technician. He has over 6 years of experience in the field and operates a site that gives daily tech tips at www.broketech.com It is part of the John W. Daniels network at www.johnwdaniels.com.
