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WWII through Modern World
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1
What battle in the Pacific saved Australia from invasion by Japan?
Midway
Coral Sea
Iwo Jima
Guadalcanal
2
What region did Great Britain and France allow Hitler to take at the Munich Conference of 1938?
Poland
Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
Austria
3
Why were the Germans fighting the British/Americans in North Africa?
To control the Sinai Peninsula to make Israel mad.
To control Libya to access the spice trade.
To control Egypt to see the pyramids.
To control the Suez Canal to have access to oil.
4
Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Queen Elizabeth II
Neville Chamberlain
5
Why didn't any nations stop the aggression of Germany, Italy & Japan in the 1930's?
They supported their take-overs.
They had no idea they were being aggressive.
They were scared of them.
They were too busy dealing with their economic depressions.
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What did Japanese leaders do to help get natural resources and fuel their nationalism?
Nazism
Expansionism
Communism
Isolationism
7
Where did they bring the Nazi war criminals to trial for crimes against humanity?
Rome, Italy
Paris, France
Berlin, Germany
Nuremberg, Germany
8
What was Hitler's FINAL attempt to achieve victory in WWII?
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Stalingrad
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What was the name of Hitler's program to exterminate the remaining Jewish people of Europe?
Wehrmacht und Luftwaffe
The Final Solution
Blitzkrieg
Operation Barbarossa
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What was the name of the peace agreement signed by Egypt and Israel in 1979?
Oslo Peace Accords
Camp David Accords
Camp Drozdak Peace Accords
Chapin Peace Accords
11
What was the belief that Jewish people should have their own state/homeland?
Moses-ism
Mt. Horebism
Elijah-ism
Zionism
12
The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 led to a rise of ...
Arab nationalism
Italian fascism
Egyptian neutrality
German nazism
13
What were the opposite economic systems competing against each other in the Cold War?
capitalism v. socialism
feudalism v. democracy
communism v. democracy
capitalism v. mercantilism
14
Why did the U.S. place an oil embargo on Japan in 1941?
Japan beat Russia at sea.
Japan invaded Korea.
Japan invaded French Indochina.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
15
What country was attacked from the West by Germany and the East by the Soviet Union in 1939?
Hungary
France
Ukraine
Poland
16
Who ordered the dropping of the two atomic bombs over Japan in August 1945?
Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
17
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
Cash & Carry, Neutrality Acts, Lend-Lease Act
Neutrality Acts, Lend-Lease Act, Cash & Carry
18
After the Battle of Midway, what strategy does the U.S. use in the Pacific?
Playing the vintage video game, "Frogger."
Hop-scotching
Island-Hopping
Puddle-jumping
19
What was the U.S. policy of economic assistance to European countries to contain communism?
Open Door Policy
Monroe Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
20
Gorbachev wanted to reform the Soviet Union such as allowing private business. This is...
caviar
glasnost
babushka
perestroika
21
After the tension of the Berlin Blockade, what did the U.S. and allies create?
NATO
Triple Entente
Allied Powers
Warsaw Pact
22
Cuba was the 1st communist nation in Latin America under the leadership of...
Simon Bolivar
Father Miguel Hidalgo
Fidel Castro
Agustin de Iturbide
23
In a direct response to the Holocaust, what was created in 1948 & it defined "genocide?"
Treaty of Versailles
Kyoto Protocol
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Marshall Plan
24
Which Middle East leader was found, tried and hanged on 12/30/06 for murder of his own people?
Saddam Hussein
Yasser Arafat
Osama bin Laden
Anwar Sadat
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Who won the Chinese Civil War and then took over China?
Hideki Tojo & the Zero Bombers
Ho Chi Minh & the Vietcong
Chiang Kai-Shek & the Nationalists
Mao Zedong & the Communists
