Turning the Tide of War (1941 - 1943)

Matching Exercise

Match each item on the left with the correct answer on the right

Soviet city that Germans laid siege to for 900 days
Soviet city that turned back the German advance
Site at which the US fleet was largely destroyed
Country that MacArthur had to abandon to avoid capture by the Japanese
German coding machine that the British had captured
Peninsula where thousands of American prisoners of war died due to their treatment by the Japanese
Code name for the deciphering of the German code
Code name for the deciphering of the Japanese code
Man who led bombing raid on Tokyo in 1942
Indecisive battle that was the first without ships seeing each other
Naval battle was the turning point in the Pacific where the US sank four Japanese aircrafts
Statement of Allied war aims issued by FDR and Churchill
Secretary of State negotiating with Japanese diplomats at the time of Pearl Harbor
Places where Japanese-Americans were interned on the West Coast
American commander in the Central Pacific
American commander in the Southern Pacific
Island in the Solomon Islands that became the marine base for counterattack against the Japanese
German commander in North Africa
British commander in North Africa and invasion of Italy
British victory in North Africa
Supreme commander of allied forces in Europe

Your score is:

Return to Quizzes Page