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Allied invasion of Normandy, France:
Pearl Harbor
B-Day
Okinawa
D-Day
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What was the name for the invasion on D-Day?
Operation Sandstorm
Operation Overlord
Operation Sealion
Operation Barbarossa
3
The names of the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were?
Little Man and Fat Boy
Enola Gay and Little Boy
Alfred and Big John
Fat Man and Little Boy
4
The leader of Russia during WW2:
Tojo
Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
5
What was the result of the Munich conference?
Britain and France refused to allow Hitler the Sudetenland
Britain and France did nothing
Britain and France declared war on Germany
Britain and France agreed that Hitler could take the Sudetenland
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What was the Holocaust?
The catastrophe
The final solution to the Jewish problem
All of these
The attempted extermination of the Jews by Germany
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US strategy in the Pacific: bypass strongly held islands and attack weaker ones to gain bases.
Fire Bombing
Island Hopping
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Blitzkreig
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The leader of Great Britain during WW2 was:
Roosevelt
Mussolini
Churchill
Stalin
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The leader of the US for most of WW2:
Churchill
Stalin
Roosevelt
Tojo
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Major battle in Soviet Union in which Soviet troops defeated Germany; heavy casualties.
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Britain
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Stalingrad
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The prime minister of Japan for most of WW2:
Tojo
Stalin
Churchill
Roosevelt
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What was the Phony War?
Period between September 1939 and April 1940 when there was little fighting
German troops occupy a burning Russian village during the summer of 1941
The last and the bloodiest major battle of World War II
Landing operations & associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944
13
World War 2 began when Germany invaded what country?
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Poland
France
14
On August 6, 1945, the US first dropped an atomic bomb on which Japanese city?
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Tokyo
Berlin
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What was the "final solution" to the Germans' Jewish "problem"?
Deportation
Extermination
All of these
Sterilization
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Boredom and lack of freedom lead to Germany’s surrender at Stalingrad
False
True
17
Which event is argued as being the original start of WWII?
D-Day
Pearl Harbor
Invasion of Manchuria
Operation Barbarossa
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What is considered the start of the Pacific War?
The Rape of Nanjing
Invasion of Poland
D-Day
Pearl Harbor
19
Which nation lost at least 20 million people during WW2?
Germany
Great Britain
US
Soviet Union
20
Germany killed approximately how many people during the Holocaust?
11 million
6 million
3 million
5 million
21
“Kristallnacht” meant "Night of the Broken Glass?
True
False
22
Nazi leaders were sentenced and punished during theNuremberg Trials?
True
False
23
What was Germany's last offensive against the Allied powers?
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Normandy
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Bulge
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What US leader made the decision to use atomic bombs against Japan?
Churchill
Truman
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
25
Germany planned to invade Great Britain after doing what?
Prolonged aerial bombings
Amphibious assault
Atomic bombings
Unrestricted submarine warfare
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After which battle was the following photo taken?
Iwo Jima
Hiroshima
Midway
Okinawa
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Besides the blast and heat, what killed people after the atomic bombs were dropped?
Radiation Poisoning
Burns
Severe injuries
Lack of food and water
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What did the US do to Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor?
Sent them to fight in Europe
Sent them back to Japan
Nothing
Sent them to Internment Camps
29
What did the Allies do to trick the Germans so D-Day could be successful?
All of these
Capture of all German spies
Inflatable tanks
Operation Bodyguard
30
What battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
Battle of Midway
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Okinawa
31
Great Britain and the US signed what agreement for supplies?
Buy-Sell Act
Supplies Act
Lend-Lease Act
Non-aggression pact
32
What two countries are considered world superpowers after WWII?
US and USSR
Germany and Britain
USSR and France
Germany and US
33
What event caused the US to declare war and begin fighting in WW2?
Bombing of London
Sinking of the Lusitania
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Bombing of Washington DC
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The Axis Powers of WW2 included:
Germany, Japan, Ottoman Empire
Germany, Italy, Japan
Germany, Italy, US
Germany, Japan, France
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The Allied Powers included:
Great Britain, US, Italy
Great Britain, Soviet Union, Japan
Great Britain, Soviet Union, US
Great Britain, Japan, US
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What country used Kamikaze ("divine wind") attacks?
US
Great Britain
Germany
Japan
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The leader of Italy during WW2:
Roosevelt
Mussolini
Hirohito
Churchill
