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policy that sought peace and stability by satisfying reasonable demands
blitzkrieg
appeasement
isolationsim
kamikaze
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The Axis powers during World War II
Germany, Italy USA
Germany, Italy and Japan
Great Britain, USSR, Italy
USA, Great Britain , Germany
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location of the D-Day landings
Calais
Normandy
Danzig
Stalingrad
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Hitler's invasion of the USSR was delayed by the failure of Mussolini's invasion of __ in 1940.
Poland
Austria
Greece
Pearl Harbor
5
Conference where Hitler was given the Sudetenland in an act of Appeasement
Potsdam
Munich
Tehran
Yalta
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Meeting where the Allies agreed to only accept an unconditional surrender from Germany
Tehran
Munich
Potsdam
Yalta
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another name for a "lightning war"
appeasement
umbrella strategy
kamikaze
blitzkrieg
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policy that initially kept the US from joining the war
kamikaze
isolationism
blitz
appeasement
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turning point of the war in the Pacific
Normandy
Midway
Coral Sea
Iwo Jima
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The "Blitz" was..
British term for German air raids
British Air Force
German Air Force
a type of weapon used in WWII
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treaty between Germany and Japan promising a common front against communism
Anti-Aggression Pact
Anti-Comintern Pact
Anti-Communist Pact
Rome-Berlin Axis
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The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact...
gave Hitler the Sudetenland
gave Hitler France
gave Hitler the Rhineland
gave Hitler the freedom to attack Poland
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Dictator of the USSR
Hitler
Mussolini
Stalin
Hirohito
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President(s) of the USA
Truman
Roosevelt
Churchill
Chamberlain
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site where Truman demanded free elections in Eastern Europe
Tehran
Potsdam
Yalta
Munich
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Japanese military leader
Tojo
Hirohito
Kamikaze
Stalin
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On September 1, 1939, Germany attacked which country t
USSR
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Poland
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the turning point of the war in Europe, resulted in the loss of the entire German 6th Army
Munich
Normandy
El Alamein
Stalingrad
19
El Alamein is the location of British forces stopping the Afrika Korps led by
General Tojo
General Rommel
Captain Churchill
Captain Crunch
20
Which British PM thought the agreement at the Munich Conference meant "peace for our time"?
Georges Clemenceau
Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain
21
What was the Luftwaffe?
German Air Force
Tank Brigades
Italian Fascist Squad
Panzer Divisions
22
conference where the Allies agreed to partition a postwar Germany
Munich
Yalta
Potsdam
Tehran
23
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed
Pearl Harbor
Normandy
Alaska
Stalingrad
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The victims of the Holocaust included large numbers of all of the following EXCEPT
Italians
Gypsies
Slavic people
Jews
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The ___ was the period of political tension following WWII.
Cold War
Yalta Era
Great Depression
Isolation Period
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Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions against the US warships
kamikaze
luftwaffe
maginot line
blitz
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Dictator of Italy
Hitler
Stalin
Mussolini
Hirohito
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Great Britain, Soviet Union and USA
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
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Prime Minister(s) of Great Britain
Truman
Clemenceau
Chamberlain
Churchill
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history's greatest naval invasion
Stalingrad
El Alamein
Midway Island
D-Day
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Dictator of Germany
Stalin
Mussolini
Hirohito
Hitler
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Hitler demanded, and was given, what area of Czechoslovakia?
Danzig
Sudetenland
Serbia
Rhineland