Video Quiz: World War II – The World at War

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Read the following statements and circle whether they are true or false.

T F 1. “Remember Pearl Harbor” became the United States’ battle cry for

world peace.

T F 2. The OPA regulated raw materials to begin producing twice as

many war materials

T F 3. By 1945, one half of the work force consisted of women.

T F 4. Henry Kaiser revolutionized medicine with the drug penicillin, both

on and off the battlefield.

T F 5. Air reconnaissance and radar helped spot and destroy German Uboats

faster than Germany could build them.

T F 6. Operation Overlord was the plan to first invade France and the

Hitler’s Germany.

T F 7. After the Battle of the Bulge, Germany’s army was left with no

option but to retreat.

T F 8. Colonel James Doolittle used the strategy of “island hopping” to

defeat the Japan in the Pacific.

T F 9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt suffered a fatal stroke, leaving Vice-

President Harry S. Truman to assume the role of President.

T F 10. After more than 200,000 people died as a result of the atomic

bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered.