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What was the name of the meeting of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in January, 1943?
The Casablanca Conference
The Paris Conference
The Washington Conference
The Morocco Conference
The Yalta Conference
To what neutral country did the Japanese make their initial "peace feelers" to end the Pacific War?
The Canadians
The French
The Soviet Union
The British
The Australians
Why was the German conquest of Norway and France important to U-boat warfare?
Because the French coastal antisubmarine defenses could be taken out.
Norway and France had the fuel reserves to ensure that the submarine fleet never ran out of oil.
It allowed the Germans to set up sub bases there and cut the transit time in half to their operating stations.
The capture of French and Norwegian submarines gave Germany a technological lead in undersea warfare.
Norway and France had the raw materials needed to build more submarines.
What was the flaw that doomed the Kellogg-Briand Pact to failure?
It had no provisions for enforcement and was therefore ignored.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact did not fail and was a significant success.
It did not have the support of the United States
President Coolidge did not support it.
It did not have the support of France.
What provision of the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I caused much resentment by the German people toward the Allies for years to come?
The requirement that Germany change its form of government.
The requirement that Germany pay reparations of $33 billion.
The requirement that Germany never again have an Army.
The requirement that key cities within Germany be occupied by allied troops.
The requirement that Germany never again have a Navy.
Where did the Allies stage an invasion in January 1944 to try to accomplish an "end run" around the Gustav Line in Italy?
Naples
Salerno
Rome
Rome
Anzio
In what year did the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty's ban on major warship construction end?
1939
1921
1933
1945
1936
What battle was considered the worst defeat ever suffered in battle by the U.S. Navy?
Savo Island
Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima
Coral Sea
Midway Island
Approximately how many U-Boats did the German Navy have at the start of World War II?
1,200
125
None
56
14
What was the name of the German Field Marshal that launched the "Battle of the Bulge" against the Allied forces?
Von Rundstedt
Rommel
De Gaulle
Montgomery
Donitz
What resistance did the Vichy French forces put up against the Allies during the North African landings?
Some resistance at Casablanca, but almost none elsewhere.
No resistance was give at all.
A large amount at all landing points.
A large amount at Casablanca and significant amounts at the others.
They stopped the Allies at Casablanca but could not hold them off in the other areas.
During which of the Allied landings in Europe did the German first use "Glide Bombs" against Allied ships?
Operation Avalanche
Operation Torch
Operation Anvil
Operation Husky
Operation Overlord
In what battle did kamikazes first appear?
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of the Java Sea
The Battle of Savo Island
The Battle of the Coral Sea
Why did the Japanese mount a fanatical defense of the island of Okinawa?
Because it was thought that a victory here would win the war for Japan.
The Japanese troops on Okinawa knew that they were the last obstacle to an Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands.
Because Okinawa was the religious center of Japan.
Because the last of Japan's war materials were located on Okinawa.
Because this was the home of the Emperor.
What naval battle on 29 February 1942 all but eliminated the Allied ABDA force?
The battle of Midway
The battle of Savo Island
The battle of the Coral Sea
The battle of Rabaul
The battle of the Java Sea.
What battle was the first great combat of the Pacific War between carrier forces?
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of the Java Sea
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Guadalcanal
What was the new Japanese defense strategy put into effect on Peleliu in late 1944?
Defense in depth, away from the beaches.
To sneak off the island at night and do a counterlanding against the Americans.
To counterattack the main landing with an Banzai charge.
To fight to the last man, never giving an inch.
To mass all available defenders on the beaches to oppose the initial landings.
Which naval battle in the Pacific marked the first time the Japanese advance had been turned back?
Java Sea
Midway
Pearl Harbor
Leyte Gulf
Coral Sea
What was the prime objective of Operation Torch?
The capture of General Rommel
The invasion of France
The port of Algiers
The port of Casablanca
The port of Naples
Where did the U.S. Navy make it's last direct contribution in the fight against Germany?
The Rhine River
The Elbe River
Cherbourg
Naples
Normandy
How many major naval battles made up the overall battles for Leyte Gulf?
Four
Three
Two
Five
Six
What was the German U-boat wolf-pack tactic?
One submarine would "cry wolf" by using false radio transmissions to throw off the defending destroyers while the others attacked.
To paint the faces of wolves on their submarines to terrorize the ships they were chasing.
To sail out of a port in a pack, the split up to confuse the Allied search planes.
To trail convoys and pick off the weakest ships.
A coordinated attack against a convoy by up to 30 or 40 German submarines.
What Congressional Act was passed in 1941 allowing the United States to "loan" war materials to Britain?
Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty
Naval Transfer Act
Kellogg-Briand Pact
The Roosevelt-Churchill agreement.
The Lend-Lease Act
After the signing of the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty of 1921, all world powers except one began major heavy-cruiser building programs. What country did not?
The United States
Britain
Italy
Japan
France
Why were the landings at Normandy delayed by one day?
To ensure an adequate supply of fuel for the operation.
To get all available forces in place.
To get favorable weather.
Because of intelligence that a major German Division was pulling out on 5 June.
To allow the navies another day to shell German coastal defenses.
Why was it necessary for Allied forces to secure Iwo Jima?
To stop Japanese fighters based there and to have an emergency base for crippled U.S. bombers returning from Japan.
To prevent a Japanese sneak attack out of this island.
To prevent long-range Japanese bombers from hitting U.S. forces in Okinawa.
To demonstrate that no Japanese Island was safe from attack.
To put the last major Japanese naval base out of action.
What naval innovation was sometimes regarded as "the secret weapon" by strategists prior to World War II that they believed would allow the Navy to win the Pacific war?
Nuclear weapons
The breaking of the Japanese codes
Amphibious operations
Aircraft carriers
At-sea replenishment and support ships that moved with the fleet.
What part of the League of Nation's charter prevented its acceptance by the U.S. Congress?
The fact that Germany and the other Central Powers would be allowed membership.
The fact that it gave the U.S. a secondary role in the affairs of the world.
The fact that the League would not be based in the United States.
The requirement for the U.S. to pay for the majority of the League's expenses.
The requirement for a mutual defense treaty.
On what island in the Solomons did the Japanese and Allied forces converge to determine the outcome in the southwestern Pacific?
Iwo Jima
Midway
Guam
Guadalcanal
Truk
What Act was passed by Congress in 1941 that allowed the U.S. to "loan" war materials to Britain?
The Neutrality Patrol Act
The Kellogg-Briand Act
The Two-Ocean Navy Act
No such Act was passed by Congress in 1941
The Lend-Lease Act
What happened to the majority of Germany's Navy at the end of World War I?
They were scuttled by the German navy at Scapa Flow.
They were turned over the Allied Powers.
Germany was allowed to keep the majority of her Fleet.
Germany was forced to reduce them to scrap and sell them.
They were sunk in a final battle in the North Sea.
What was the name of the Allied invasion of Southern France?
Operation Overlord
Operation Torch
Operation Avalanche
Operation Anvil
Operation Husky
Operation Avalanche was the Allied plan to invade what country?
Turkey
Italy
France
North Africa
Sicily
Under what policy did Britain and France made a series of concessions to Hitler and Mussolini in return for "promises of peace."
5:5:3 ratio
Rapprochement
Appeasement
Marshall Plan
Kellogg-Briand Pact
The flow of maritime supplies through which Russian port proved critical to the war in the east?
Murmansk
Vladivostok
Stalingrad
St. Petersburg
Moscow
After the fall of France, French General Charles de Gaulle organized a resistance movement called what?
The French Freedom Fighters
The Free French
The French Liberators
The Allied Underground
The Vichy French
At what town did 101st Airborne Division stop the German advance during the Battle of the Bulge?
Paris
Bastogne
Dijon
Verdun
Cherbourg
On what date did Italy and Germany declare war on the United States?
7 December, 1941
16 October, 1941
11 December, 1941
8 December, 1941
1 September, 1939
What was the name of the U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier?
The USS Hornet
The USS Bismarck
The USS Langley
The USS Lexington
The USS Saratoga
What was the last major German offensive against the Allies?
The Battle of the Bulge
The Siegfried Line
Normandy
Stalingrad
The Blitzkrieg
What was the Battle of Britain in 1940-41?
An air war over England between the Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe.
An invasion of England by Germans and their Irish supporters through Ireland.
A naval engagement off the coast of London between the British Channel Fleet and the German Navy.
A German submarine campaign around the British home islands targeted at merchant shipping.
A limited ground war between German amphibious troops and the British Army.
What organization did President Wilson try to get the U.S. to join following World War I?
NATO
The Organization of American States
The Warsaw Pact
The League of Nations
The United Nations
What country proceeded to fortify Pacific island bases in-between World Wars I and II?
Japan
The U.S.
France
Italy
Britain
What did the 5:5:3 ratio in the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty refer to?
The ratio of battleship tonnage for the U.S., Britain and France.
The ratio of overall naval tonnage for the U.S., Britain and France.
The ratio over cruiser tonnage for the U.S., Britain and Japan.
The ratio of battleship tonnage for the U.S., Britain and Japan.
The ratio of overall naval tonnage for the U.S., Britain and Japan.
What battle turned the tide for the Allies on the eastern front in 1942-43?
Guadalcanal
Stalingrad
Casablanca
Anzio
Gallipoli
What action by Hitler's Germany in 1939 began World War II in Europe?
Germany remilitarizing of the Rhineland.
The German takeover of Austria.
The German invasion of Poland.
German withdrawal from the League of Nations.
The takeover of Czechoslovakia by Germany.
What one condition did Japan insist on before they would surrender to the Allies at the end of World War II?
That the Japanese keep control of Okinawa.
That the imperial system and the Emperor be allowed to remain.
That the Kurile Islands not fall into the hands of the Soviet Union.
That the Japanese Navy not be taken over by the Allies.
That there would be no war crime trials after the war.
Where did the massive Allied invasion of northern France take place in June 1944?
Normandy
Anzio
Casablanca
Salerno
Dunkirk
When and where did Germany surrender to Allied forces?
On 10 May, 1945 in Berlin.
On 8 May, 1945 in London, England
On 7 May 1945 in Reims, France.
On 10 May, 1945 in Reims, France
On 7 May, 1945 in Paris France
Benito Mussolini was captured and killed while trying to escape to what country?
Bolivia
Turkey
Argentina
Switzerland
France
Who commanded the allied naval forces known as the ABDA defense command?
Admiral Halsey
Admiral Halsey
Admiral Doorman
Admiral King
Admiral Nimitz
How did Nimitz know about Japanese intentions at the Battle of Midway?
A high-ranking Japanese defector gave the battle plans to the Americans.
The U.S. had recovered Top Secret Japanese documents which told of the attack plan.
The U.S. had broken the Japanese cipher codes.
The U.S. had discovered the plan while interrogating Japanese survivors of the battle of the Coral Sea.
The U.S. had a spy in the higher circles of Japanese Naval planning.
In 1924 the U.S. Congress passed an immigration bill classifying what country's nationals as "undesirables".
Germany
Japan
Turkey
Italy
France
How many aircraft carriers were lost during the battle of Midway?
The Japanese lost 4 and the U.S. lost 1.
The Japanese lost 3 and the U.S. lost 1.
The Japanese lost 2 and the U.S. lost 2.
The Japanese lost 4 and the U.S. did not lose any.
The U.S. lost 3 and the Japanese lost 2.
What were Admiral Nimitz's orders at the start of the Pacific War?
To find and defeat the Japanese Navy at sea.
To lure the Japanese into a trap near Midway Island.
To conduct amphibious landings against the home islands of Japan.
To conduct air strikes against mainland Japan.
To hold the line against any further Japanese advance.
What was the most significant result of the Sicilian campaign of 1943 for the Allies?
Germany lost her only naval base in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Axis forces lost their primary source of food.
The capture of German Field Marshall Rommel.
The Axis forces lost their primary source of oil.
It largely eliminated Italy from the war.
What did General Billy Mitchell's test sinking of a battleship by aerial bombing cause Navy leaders to do?
To turn over anti-ship air operations to the Army Air Crops.
Push for further reductions in the number of authorized battleships.
The event was ignored because the battleship was not firing back and not moving.
To convert a collier into the Navy's first aircraft carrier.
Strengthen battleships so that this could not happen in the future.
What new type of warfare did the U.S. Marine Corps concentrate on to support war plans in the Pacific area?
Armored Warfare
Trench Warfare
Amphibious Warfare
Airborne Warfare
Close Air Support
What made possible the rapid movement of Allied forces through France after the Normandy invasion.
The good road and rail systems in France.
Faster tanks and trucks than the German Army had.
Control of the seas.
Control of the air.
The German Army was not as strong as the Allies had thought.
What is the mission of the Seabees?
To clear obstacles from beaches prior to amphibious landings.
To repair naval ships at sea, far away from their support bases.
To capture and interrogate enemy military personnel.
To create operating bases in any environment.
To parachute in ahead of the assault force to cut off enemy supply lines.