HIUS 380 Quiz 3 World War II

HIUS 380 Quiz 3 World War II

Module 3 Week 3

HIUS 380 Quiz 3

1. Where did a terrible fratricide of American airborne and glider troops occur?
2. What fighter used by the U.S. represented a response to a captured Japanese Zero?
3. What major North African defeat in North Africa suffered in part from a failure of intelligence and the tendency to segregate anti-air assets while remaining somewhat road bound?
4. The key to Allied resupply in Western Europe came from the:
5. The key war material needed by armies in World War Two and ignored by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor included:
6. The V-1 and V-2 rockets may in large measure explain the decision for the audaciously bold plan proposed by Field Marshall Montgomery to propose a solution to supply problems through
7. What went wrong at Omaha Beach?
8. What ocean needed to be secured by the U.S. Navy before American troops could go ashore into North Africa?
9. The first atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on August 6, 1945 landed where?
10. By the time of D-Day the supreme allied commander would win the battle to use the Air Force to target:
11. The breakout from Normandy was accomplished by what?
12. What discovery served to enable the U.S. Navy to crack German naval codes in 1942?
13. The aircraft particularly effective at destroying Roman railroads through strafing and bombing was the:
14. What represented a major failing of Japanese planning in the Pacific that increased vulnerability to American Submarines?
15. What Operation did General Douglas MacArthur demonstrate his genius for mobility and by passing enemy strongholds in the south west Pacific?

Set 2

1. What served as the ultimate U.S. objective as American forces advanced across North Africa?
2. If Iwo Jima represented an attempt to secure an airfield for crippled B-29 bombers, what island next attacked had been selected on the basis of providing an anchorage as well as a platform for air power as well as for troops to attack the Japanese home islands?
3. The air forces hitting Schweinfurt did so for the purpose of destroying:
4. The American decision to follow a ____________ first strategy stood at odds with the hatred the American people felt after Pearl Harbor.
5. What fighter used by the U.S. represented a response to a captured Japanese Zero?
6. What ocean needed to be secured by the U.S. Navy before American troops could go ashore into North Africa?
7. The operational name for the U.S. invasion of Sicily is called:
8. By the time of D-Day the supreme allied commander would win the battle to use the Air Force to target:
9. The G.I. Bill represented a largely successful government program intended to transition soldiers to civilian life with college benefits:
10. What use of strategic bombers failed to dislodge the Germans from the rubble of Monte Casino?
11. The key war material needed by armies in World War Two and ignored by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor included:
12. What represented a major failing of Japanese planning in the Pacific that increased vulnerability to American Submarines?
13. The key to Allied resupply in Western Europe came from the:
14. What went wrong at Omaha Beach?
15. The aircraft particularly effective at destroying Roman railroads through strafing and bombing was the: