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Question 1

Who was the British prime minister who tried to appease Hitler?

Accepted Answer

Chamberlain

Question 2

Hiroshima and __________ are the only two cities to have the atomic bomb dropped on them.

Accepted Answer

Nagasaki

Question 3

What was the name of the treaty that ended World War I?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Versailles

Question 4

What weapon forced the Japanese to surrender?

Accepted Answer

Atomic Bomb

Question 5

Who was emperor of Japan during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Hirohito

Question 6

What kind of currency was almostworthless in Germany following WWI?

Accepted Answer

Paper

Question 7

What battle was the turning point in the Pacific War?

Accepted Answer

Midway

Question 8

Nazis were tried at the __________ war trials.

Accepted Answer

Nuremburg

Question 9

What is the acronym for the GermanSocialist Worker’s Party?

Accepted Answer

NAZI

Question 10

What individual, of Japanese descent, brought a case before the Supreme Court?

Accepted Answer

Korematsu

Question 11

What was the name of the Supreme Commander in the Pacific?

Accepted Answer

Douglas MacArthur

Question 12

What is the first country Germany invades in 1939?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 13

Germany employed this type of lightning attack during World War II.

Accepted Answer

Blitzkrieg

Question 14

The __________ Pact of 1938 failed to appease Hitler with Czechoslovakia.

Accepted Answer

Munich

Question 15

What is the name given for the amphibious invasion of Europe

Accepted Answer

D-Day

Question 16

Who was the leader of Germany during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Hitler

Question 17

What region did Japan invade in 1931?

Accepted Answer

Manchuria

Question 18

What president made the decision to drop the atomic bomb?

Accepted Answer

Truman

Question 19

What German legislature building was burned down by communists?

Accepted Answer

Reichstag

Question 20

What event brings the United States into World War 2?

Accepted Answer

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Question 21

What was the name given to Germany's last major offensive?

Accepted Answer

Battle of the Bulge

Question 22

Japan, Germany, and Italy are part of the _________ powers.

Accepted Answer

Axis

Question 23

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Stalin

Question 24

___________ refers to the attempted genocide of the Jewish people by Hitler.

Accepted Answer

Holocaust

Question 25

Late 1944 the Japanese started using ________ attacks in desperation.

Accepted Answer

Kamikaze

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