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Meeting where the "Big 3," FDR, Truman, and Stalin agreed to divide Germany, but free elections
Tehran
Cairo
Potsdam
Yalta
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What joined Germany and Italy with Japan?
Treaty of Versailles
Tripartite Alliance
Lend-Lease Act
Non-Aggression Pact
3
Who was the Allied commander of Europe?
Eisenhower
Rommel
Montgomery
Goring
4
US strategy in the Pacific: bypass strongly held islands and attack weaker ones to gain bases.
Blitzkreig
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Fire Bombing
Island Hopping
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What was the Holocaust?
The final solution to the Jewish problem
The attempted extermination of the Jews by Germany
All of these
The catastrophe
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The leader of the US for most of WW2:
Churchill
Tojo
Roosevelt
Stalin
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Major battle in Soviet Union in which Soviet troops defeated Germany; heavy casualties.
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Britain
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What was Germany's last assault against the Allied powers in the West?
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Normandy
Battle of Britain
Battle of Stalingrad
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Great Britain and the US signed what agreement for supplies?
Lend-Lease Act
Supplies Act
Buy-Sell Act
Non-aggression pact
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What battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Midway
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What country used Kamikaze ("divine wind") attacks?
Japan
Great Britain
US
Germany
12
The leader of Great Britain during WW2 was:
Roosevelt
Mussolini
Stalin
Churchill
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On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on which Japanese city?
Hiroshima
Berlin
Tokyo
Nagasaki
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What did the US do to Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor?
Sent them to fight in Europe
Nothing
Sent them to Internment Camps
Sent them back to Japan
15
World War 2 began when Germany invaded what country?
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Poland
France
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Germany planned to invade Great Britain after doing what?
Prolonged aerial bombings
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Atomic bombings
Amphibious assault
17
US General that was a decoy for D-Day, which city?
Patton, Bastogne
MacArthur, Calais
MacArthur, Bastogne
Patton, Calais
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The prime minister of Japan for most of WW2 (was also a General):
Stalin
Roosevelt
Tojo
Churchill
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The leader of the Soviet Union during WW2:
Stalin
Churchill
Tojo
Roosevelt
20
The Axis Powers of WW2 included:
Germany, Italy, US
Germany, Japan, Ottoman Empire
Germany, Japan, France
Germany, Italy, Japan
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Which nation lost at least 20 million people during WW2?
Germany
US
Soviet Union
Great Britain
22
The Allied Powers included:
Great Britain, Soviet Union, Japan
Great Britain, US, Italy
Great Britain, Soviet Union, US
Great Britain, Japan, US
23
The Cold War, clash between capitalism and communism, was between which two superpowers?
Germany and Japan
US and China
US and USSR
USSR and China
24
The leader of Italy during WW2:
Roosevelt
Churchill
Mussolini
Hirohito
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What US leader made the decision to use atomic bombs against Japan?
Churchill
Roosevelt
Truman
Eisenhower
26
Germany killed approximately how many people during the Holocaust?
11 million
5 million
6 million
3 million
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Allied invasion of Normandy, France:
Manahatten Project
Operation Overlord
Operation Torch
Operation Okinawa