HH104 Final Exam

All quiz questions

The naval battle in 1944 after which Japanese Navy ceased to exist as an effective fighting force

The Battle of Leyte Gulf

The commander of task force Taffy 3, who held off the Japanese task force attempting to ambush the American landing force in the Philippines using suicidal torpedo attacks was

Clifton Sprague

The US Army Air Corps general who orchestrated the firebombing campaign of the Japanese home islands was

Curtis LeMay

The failed US-supported invasion of Cuba that attempted to remove Fidel Castro from power was called

The Bay of Pigs

The standoff between the US and the Soviet Union over the latter’s clandestine placement of nuclear weapons in the western hemisphere was called

The Cuban Missile Crisis

The commander of the USS Johnston who was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor for defending the landing force at the Battle of Leyte Gulf was

Ernest Evans

The only submarine to ever sink a train was the USS

Barb

The decisive naval battle in which an American task force led by sank four Japanese aircraft carriers for the loss of one of their own was

The Battle of Midway

American victory that secured a key island in the Solomons that closed off the Japanese threat to the Sea Lines of Communication between the United States and Australia, in which US Marines fought off Japanese attacks on Henderson Field was

The Battle of Guadalcanal

The head of the Japanese Navy, who was the architect of the naval strategy against the United States in the Second World War was

Isoruku Yamamoto

The daylight raid on the Japanese home islands in 1942 that helped convince the Japanese to seize Midway Island was

The Doolittle Raid

The commander of Japanese aircraft carriers in the Pearl Harbor and Midway operations was

Chiuchi Nagumo

The US Naval Exercise in 1929 that pitted aircraft carriers against each other for the first time was

Fleet Problem IX

The USMC Officer who wrote “Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia” which served as a blueprint for development of USMC Amphibious Doctrine in the Second World War was

Earl “Pete” Ellis

The US war plan against the Japanese Empire developed in the 1920s was

War Plan Orange

The German submarine tactic that used groups of U-boats against trans-Atlantic convoys in the Second World War was called

Wolf Pack

The new technology that allowed Allied forces to geo-locate U-boats based on triangulating the source of their radio transmissions in the Second World War was called

HF/DF

The commander of US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, who led the overall war effort until 1968 was called

William Westmoreland

The communist operation undertaken in 1968 intended to start a general uprising in South Vietnam, which helped to break the political will of the United States to continue the fighting in Vietnam was called

The Tet Offensive

The US Army officer who led the troops that orchestrated the My Lai massacre was

William Calley

The failed US operation in 1979 that attempted to recover embassy hostages seized during the Iranian Revolution was called

Operation Eagle Claw

The naval strategy promulged by John Lehman, Ronald Raegan’s Secretary of the Navy, was called

The Maritime Strategy

The four modern ships authorized in 1833 that heralded the beginning of the “New Navy” in the United States were called the

ABCD Ships

The new naval institution founded in 1882 charged with gathering information of naval significance about foreign naval powers was the

Office of Naval Intelligence

The wave of technological advancement in the late 19th century characterized by application of electrical power to machinery, advancements in chemical engineering, and new assembly line process was the

Second Industrial Revolution

The British intellectual who revolutionized the natural sciences with his Theory of Evolution was

Charles Darwin

American naval commander at the Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War, who told his flag captain “You may fire when ready, Gridley,” was

George Dewey

The Naval Personnel Act of 1899 integrated US naval line officers with what other type of officer

engineers

The American naval theorist who published The Influence of Sea Power Upon History in 1980, and provided an intellectual rationale for a new American battleship fleet was

Alfred Thayer Mahan

The American second-class battleship that exploded in Havana harbor in 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War was

USS Maine

The Russian naval commander chosen to command the Baltic Fleet and dispatched to relieve the beleaguered Russian naval forces at Port Arthur was

Zinovy Rozhdestvensky

The decisive Japanese victory that destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet and effectively ended the Russo-Japanese War at sea was the

Battle of Tsushima

The first all-big-gun British battleship that accelerated the naval arms race leading up to the First World War was the

HMS Dreadnought

The head of the German Navy, who helped secure passage of the First and Second German Navy Bills, and oversaw the expansion of the German battlefleet was

Alfred Tirpitz

The main point of friction that helped facilitate the Russo-Japanese War was about who controlled

Kora

The British First Sea Lord who oversaw the development of the all-big-gun battleship in the Royal Navy was

John Fisher

The naval battle in which the German naval squadron under Graf von Spee destroyed the British naval squadron under Christopher Craddock was

Battle of Coronel

The American naval officer sent to liaise with the British Admiralty after American severed diplomatic relations with Germany in 1917 was

John Jellicoe

The commander of the Grand Fleet who led the British Navy against the Germans at the Battle of Jutland was

William Sims

The new type of German submarine that formed the core of the unrestricted submarine warfare campaign was called

Project 31

Measures taken to ensure that detonations of cordite charges near the gun turret did not travel to the handling rooms and then the magazines was called

Flash Protection

The naval battle in which Graf von Spee’s squadron was destroyed by British battlecruisers under Admiral Sturdee was the

Battle of Falkland Islands

The new type of smoothebore, shell-firing naval gun with a “bottle” shape that was designed to prevent gun explosions during firing, introduced in 1848, was the

Dahlgren Gun

The first superintendent of USNA, who defected to the Confederacy and commanded the CSS Virginia during the Battle of Hampton Roads was

CAPT Franklin Buchanan

The first sub to sink a warship in combat was the

CSS Hunley

The American Naval Officer who said “Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead! during the Battle of Mobile Bay was

RADM David Glasgow Farragut

The Union General who commanded US ground forces in the Vicksburg campaign was

Ulysses S Grant

The new type of cylindro-conoidal bullet that contributed to the lethality of the new rifled musket used in the Civil War was the

Minie Ball

General Winfield Scott’s plan to strangle the Confederacy through use of a naval blockade and “a powerful movement down the Mississippi” was called the

Anaconda Plan

The naval officer who burned the Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor on a captured Tripolitan ketch was

LT Stephen Decatur

The commander of the USS Chesapeake who was killed fighting SMS Shannon was

CAPT James Lawrence

The practice of forcing American Sailors into the Royal Navy was called

Impressment

The hero of the Battle of Plattsburgh, who deployed kedge anchors to wind his ships around and present fresh broadsides to his British opponents and block the British invasion from Canada was

Master Commandant Thomas MacDonough

The event in 1842 that helped instigate the establishment of the United States Naval Academy in 1845 was

The Somers Mutiny

The domestic uprising in 1786 that served as a catalyst for the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was

Shay’s Rebellion

In George Washington’s “Sentiments on a Peace Establishment” he advocated for a regular army to garrison in the west, a respectable and well-established militia, arsenals and manufactories, and

Military academies

The French army officer who overturned the French Directory and established a military dictatorship in 1799 was

Napoleon Bonaparte

The most famous battle in British naval history, in which the fleet of Admiral Horatio Nelson overwhelmed and destroyed virtually the entire Franco-Spanish fleet in 1805 off the coast of Spain was

The Battle of Trafalgar

The US Marine officer who led the assault on the city of Derna in the First Barbary War was

Lt Presley O’Bannon

The American officer who retrieved artillery from Ticonderoga and brought it back to aid in the siege of Boston in 1775 was

Henry Knox

The naval action on Lake Champlain in 1776 that blocked Sir Guy Carleton from reinforcing the British in New York was

The Battle of Valcour Island

The Prussian officer who retrained the Continental Army at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778 was

Baron von Steuben

The naval battle that prevented Cornwallis’s army from escaping from combined armies of Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown was

The Battle of the Virginia Capes

The American victory that resulted in the French entering into a formal alliance in support of the American cause was

The Battle of Saratoga

The epidemic that killed about half of Europe’s population in the 14th century was called

Black Plague

The trade network that carried goods from China across the Middle East to Western Europe was called

The Silk Road

The naval battle that halted Ottoman expansion across the Mediterranean in the 16th Century CE was called

The Battle of Lepanto

The Tactical School in the English Navy in the 27th Century that advocated all ships to remain in formation regardless of circumstances was called

The Formal School

The British politician who advocated for the Maritime Strategy that led to ultimate victory of the English over the French in the Seven Years’ War was

William Pitt