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WWII through Modern World
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Why were the Germans fighting the British/Americans in North Africa?
To control Libya to access the spice trade.
To control the Suez Canal to have access to oil.
To control the Sinai Peninsula to make Israel mad.
To control Egypt to see the pyramids.
2
Cuba was the 1st communist nation in Latin America under the leadership of...
Simon Bolivar
Agustin de Iturbide
Father Miguel Hidalgo
Fidel Castro
3
Who ordered the dropping of the two atomic bombs over Japan in August 1945?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
4
Which Middle East leader was found, tried and hanged on 12/30/06 for murder of his own people?
Saddam Hussein
Anwar Sadat
Osama bin Laden
Yasser Arafat
5
Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII?
Queen Elizabeth II
Neville Chamberlain
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
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After the Battle of Midway, what strategy does the U.S. use in the Pacific?
Island-Hopping
Playing the vintage video game, "Frogger."
Puddle-jumping
Hop-scotching
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Why did the U.S. place an oil embargo on Japan in 1941?
Japan invaded French Indochina.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
Japan invaded Korea.
Japan beat Russia at sea.
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Who won the Chinese Civil War and then took over China?
Hideki Tojo & the Zero Bombers
Chiang Kai-Shek & the Nationalists
Mao Zedong & the Communists
Ho Chi Minh & the Vietcong
9
What region did Great Britain and France allow Hitler to take at the Munich Conference of 1938?
Austria
Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
Poland
10
Gorbachev wanted to reform the Soviet Union such as allowing private business. This is...
babushka
perestroika
caviar
glasnost
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What did Japanese leaders do to help get natural resources and fuel their nationalism?
Communism
Isolationism
Expansionism
Nazism
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What was the belief that Jewish people should have their own state/homeland?
Zionism
Moses-ism
Mt. Horebism
Elijah-ism
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What was Hitler's FINAL attempt to achieve victory in WWII?
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Britain
14
List the correct order of U.S. involvement with the Allies in WWII...
We never traded with the Allies.
Neutrality Acts, Cash & Carry, Lend-Lease
Neutrality Acts, Lend-Lease Act, Cash & Carry
Cash & Carry, Neutrality Acts, Lend-Lease Act
15
What battle in the Pacific saved Australia from invasion by Japan?
Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima
Coral Sea
Midway
16
In a direct response to the Holocaust, what was created in 1948 & it defined "genocide?"
Marshall Plan
Kyoto Protocol
Treaty of Versailles
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
17
What was the name of the peace agreement signed by Egypt and Israel in 1979?
Oslo Peace Accords
Camp David Accords
Chapin Peace Accords
Camp Drozdak Peace Accords
18
What was the name of Hitler's program to exterminate the remaining Jewish people of Europe?
Operation Barbarossa
The Final Solution
Blitzkrieg
Wehrmacht und Luftwaffe
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Why didn't any nations stop the aggression of Germany, Italy & Japan in the 1930's?
They were too busy dealing with their economic depressions.
They were scared of them.
They supported their take-overs.
They had no idea they were being aggressive.
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What was the U.S. policy of economic assistance to European countries to contain communism?
Monroe Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
Open Door Policy
Marshall Plan
21
What were the opposite economic systems competing against each other in the Cold War?
communism v. democracy
capitalism v. socialism
capitalism v. mercantilism
feudalism v. democracy
22
Where did they bring the Nazi war criminals to trial for crimes against humanity?
Paris, France
Nuremberg, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Rome, Italy
23
The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 led to a rise of ...
Italian fascism
Egyptian neutrality
Arab nationalism
German nazism
24
What country was attacked from the West by Germany and the East by the Soviet Union in 1939?
France
Poland
Hungary
Ukraine
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After the tension of the Berlin Blockade, what did the U.S. and allies create?
Warsaw Pact
Triple Entente
Allied Powers
NATO
