Corrigé histoire des États-Unis : exercices d’anglais 3e – PDF gratuit à télécharger et imprimer

1. d
2. h
3. e
4. a
5. b
6. c
7. g
8. f

Ordre : 2 – 7 – 6 – 8 – 3 – 4 – 1 – 5

1. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor (1941).
2. Two atomic bombs hit Japan (1945).
3. The Berlin Wall was built (1961).
4. The Cuban Missile Crisis broke out (1962).
5. Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon (1969).
6. The USSR disappeared (1991).
7. The Twin Towers collapsed (2001).
8. Barack Obama was elected president (2008).

1. 1945
2. 1941
3. 1969
4. 1991
5. 2001
6. 1962

1. attacked (verbe régulier)
2. spoke (speak, spoke, spoken)
3. worked
4. sent (send, sent, sent)
5. fell (fall, fell, fallen)
6. fought (fight, fought, fought)

1. Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan in 1941.
2. The Berlin Wall was built by the Soviets in 1961.
3. Four planes were hijacked by terrorists. (pluriel : were)
4. Barack Obama was elected in 2008. (by Americans est inutile)
5. The Willis Tower was built in the 1970s.

1. It was a Sunday.
2. Most sailors were still asleep or having breakfast.
3. It lasted less than two hours.
4. More than 2,400 Americans were killed.
5. He asked Congress to declare war on Japan.
6. Before the attack, many Americans did not want to fight, but after it thousands of young men volunteered to join the army.

1. superpowers
2. communist
3. nuclear
4. arms race
5. wall
6. Moon

1. T : « Every year on September 11 ».
2. F : « the National September 11 Memorial in New York ».
3. T : « Two huge square pools ».
4. F : « Water falls into them day and night ».
5. T : « the names of nearly 3,000 victims are engraved ».
6. T : « a number which reminds visitors of the year of American independence ».

1. c – Chicago is on the shore of Lake Michigan.
2. e – During the Great Migration, African Americans moved from the South to the North.
3. a – The first skyscrapers were built in Chicago.
4. f – Chicago is famous for its electric blues and deep-dish pizza.
5. b – Its nickname is the Windy City.
6. d – Barack Obama started his political career there.

1. nineteen forty-one
2. nineteen sixty-nine
3. seventeen seventy-six
4. two thousand and one (AmE : two thousand one)
5. nineteen eighty-nine
6. two thousand and eight (AmE : two thousand eight)

1. The United States entered the war in 1941.
2. The Cold War lasted more than forty years.
3. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
4. Four planes were hijacked on September 11, 2001.
5. Many African Americans settled in Chicago.
6. A memorial pays tribute to the victims.

Exemple de réponse :

Points vérifiés : verbes au prétérit (was watching, left, walked, collected, took, planted, saw, won), une voix passive (was followed), deux dates bien écrites (On July 20, 1969 ; in 1957).