Exercices histoire des États-Unis : anglais 3e – PDF gratuit à télécharger et imprimer

Associe chaque mot anglais à sa traduction.

1. to surrender
2. the arms race
3. to hijack
4. to collapse
5. a naval base
6. the space race
7. a memorial
8. to declare war on

a. s’effondrer – b. une base navale – c. la course à l’espace – d. capituler – e. détourner – f. déclarer la guerre à – g. un mémorial – h. la course aux armements

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

Complète chaque phrase avec la bonne année : 1941, 1945, 1962, 1969, 1991, 2001.

1. The Second World War ended in ___.
2. The USA entered the war in ___.
3. The first man walked on the Moon in ___.
4. The Cold War ended in ___.
5. Nearly 3,000 people died in New York and Washington in ___.
6. The world was afraid of a nuclear war in ___.

Mets le verbe entre parenthèses au prétérit.

1. Japanese planes (attack) ___ the base early in the morning.
2. President Roosevelt (speak) ___ to Congress the next day.
3. Millions of women (work) ___ in factories.
4. The USSR (send) ___ the first satellite into space.
5. The Berlin Wall (fall) ___ in 1989.
6. The passengers of Flight 93 (fight) ___ the terrorists.

Réécris chaque phrase à la voix passive au prétérit.

1. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.
2. The Soviets built the Berlin Wall in 1961.
3. Terrorists hijacked four planes.
4. Americans elected Barack Obama in 2008.
5. Engineers built the Willis Tower in the 1970s.

Lis le texte et réponds aux questions en anglais.

1. What day of the week was it?
2. What were most sailors doing?
3. How long did the attack last?
4. How many Americans were killed?
5. What did Roosevelt do the next day?
6. How did Americans’ opinion change after the attack?

Complète avec : superpowers, arms race, Moon, wall, nuclear, communist.

1. After 1945, the USA and the USSR were the two ___.
2. The USSR was a ___ country.
3. Both countries built thousands of ___ weapons.
4. This competition was called the ___.
5. In 1961, a ___ divided Berlin.
6. In 1969, an American astronaut landed on the ___.

Lis le texte. Dis si chaque phrase est vraie (T) ou fausse (F) et justifie avec une citation.

1. The ceremony takes place once a year.
2. The memorial is in Washington.
3. There are two pools.
4. The water stops at night.
5. The victims’ names are engraved.
6. The height of the new tower has a symbolic meaning.

Associe le début et la fin de chaque phrase.

1. Chicago is on the shore of
2. During the Great Migration,
3. The first skyscrapers
4. Chicago is famous for
5. Its nickname is
6. Barack Obama started

a. were built in Chicago. – b. the Windy City. – c. Lake Michigan. – d. his political career there. – e. African Americans moved from the South to the North. – f. its electric blues and deep-dish pizza.

Écris en toutes lettres comme on les prononce en anglais.

1. 1941
2. 1969
3. 1776
4. 2001
5. 1989
6. 2008

1. Les États-Unis sont entrés en guerre en 1941.
2. La guerre froide a duré plus de quarante ans.
3. Le mur de Berlin est tombé en 1989.
4. Quatre avions ont été détournés le 11 septembre 2001.
5. Beaucoup d’Afro-Américains se sont installés à Chicago.
6. Un mémorial rend hommage aux victimes.

Choisis un événement du chapitre (Pearl Harbor, le premier pas sur la Lune, la chute du mur de Berlin ou le 11 septembre). Écris un court article de 8 à 10 lignes pour le journal du collège : où, quand, ce qui s’est passé, les conséquences. Utilise au moins cinq verbes au prétérit, une phrase à la voix passive et deux dates correctement écrites.