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1
Germany quickly invaded France by crossing through what fortified barrier?
Atlantic Wall
Maginot Line
Demilitarized Zone
Sudentenland
2
What political theory promotes the nation over individual rights?
capitalism
communism
democracy
fascism
3
Hitler invaded what country on September 1, 1939?
Hungary
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Austria
4
Before invading Poland, Hitler annexed what?
Poland
Austria
Hungary
USSR
5
Which of the following was
NOT
part of French Indochina?
Thailand
Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
6
The National Socialist German Workers Party was also known as what?
The Socialists
The Communists
The Nazis
The German Fascists
7
Operation Overlord is commonly called what?
A-Day
B-Day
D-Day
C-Day
8
Who was the fascist leader of Italy during WWII?
Benito Mussolini
Francisco Franco
Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
9
What two Japanese cities were bombed by the US?
Hiroshima & Tokyo
Osaka & Kagoshima
Kyoto & Nagasaki
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
10
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII?
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
11
Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam?
Ngo Dinh Diem
Kim Il-Sung
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Zedong
12
Where was the largest extermination camp?
Buchenwald
Dachau
Bergen Belsen
Auschwitz
13
What country was divided along the 38th parallel after WWII?
Korea
Germany
Austria
Vietnam
14
Nazis wanted to purify Europe of all people except for what race?
Roma Gypsies
Jews
Aryan
Nazis
15
What was the name for the German air force?
Bataan
Luftwaffe
Goering
Schlieffen
16
What was the name for the CIA plan to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro?
Cuban Missile Crisis
Operation Cuba
Bay of Pigs Invasion
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
17
What was the name of the plan to help Europe rebuild after WWII?
Marshall Plan
Fourteen Points
Roosevelt Plan
Nuremberg Plan
18
During what battle were Allied soldiers rescued by hundreds of civilian boats?
Maginot
Battle of Britain
Dunkirk
Operation Sea Lion
19
How did Hitler come to power?
Democratically
Killing the king
Asking nicely
Violent force
20
What happened on December 7, 1941?
V-J Day (End of WWII)
Hitler invaded the USSR
The D-Day Invasions
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
21
What political theory promotes gov't ownership of goods and equal distribution of wealth?
democracy
fascism
communism
monarchy
22
Known for dropping the bomb, who became president after FDR?
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
23
This final German offensive was also the bloodiest and largest US battle:
D-Day
Schlieffen Plan
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of the Bulge
24
Who was the leader of Great Britain during WWII?
Margaret Thatcher
Benito Mussolini
Georges Clemenceau
Winston Churchill
25
What was the name of the crisis when the USSR placed nuclear weapons in Cuba?
Operation Barbarossa
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
26
What failed German attack on the USSR is considered the turning point?
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Moscow
Battle of St. Petersburg
Battle of Siberia
27
Who was the communist leader of China responsible for the "Great Leap Forward"?
Mao Zedong
Kim Il Sung
Fidel Castro
Ho Chi Minh
28
The plan for heavy and quick German attacks was known as what?
Maginot
Barbarossa
Blitzkrieg
Luftwaffe
29
Hitler's plan to "answer the Jewish question" with extermination was called what?
The Jewish Solution
The Final Solution
The Great Purge
The Aryan Objective
30
What were the name of the trials that accused Nazis of war crimes?
Kristallnacht Trials
Berlin Trials
Munich Trials
Nuremberg Trials
31
Japan surrendered aboard what ship?
USS Missouri
USS Arizona
USS Enterprise
USS Iowa
32
The Soviet Republic crashing and failing is often symbolized by what famous event?
Nikita Khrushchev stepping down
Stalin's death
Fall of Berlin Wall
Vietnam falling to communism
33
Which US president ran on the campaign of Vietnamization?
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
34
Which US president was mostly in office during WWII?
FDR
LBJ
JFK
George Washington
35
What was the codename for the Allied invasion of France?
Operation Barbarossa
Mission Impossible
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Overlord
36
Which battle is seen as the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
Midway
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Nagasaki
37
Jewish prisoners were taken where before concentration camps?
extermination camps
ghetto
internment camps
rural countrysides
38
What American citizens were placed in internment camps during WWII?
Italian
Chinese
German
Japanese
39
The Nazi genocide of 6 million+ Jewish people is known as what?
The Armenian Genocide
The Five Year Plans
The Jewish Genocide
The Holocaust
40
Germany defied its pact with the USSR and attacked during what?
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Rengenbogen
Operation Nordseetour
Operation Barbarossa
41
Keeping communism within its current borders is known as what?
Tet Offensive
domino theory
armistice
containment
42
What is the name for American paranoia that communism would take over the US gov't?
Internment
Black Market
Red Scare
Containment
43
Germany was divided up into how many parts immediately after WWII?
6
1
4
3
44
What was the name of a Japanese suicide pilot?
kamikaze
okinawa
Eminem
nagoya
45
Fidel Castro was the communist leader of what nation after WWII?
Mexico
Korea
Vietnam
Cuba
46
What is a name for when two countries compete to build up armies and military technology?
Military Race
Stalemate
Arms Race
Race for Armies
47
What was the codename for the American project to build the atomic bomb?
Brooklyn Project
Queens Project
Harlem Project
Manhattan Project
48
V-E Day took place on May 8...
1947
1943
1942
1945
49
What gave Lyndon B. Johnson extra war powers during the Vietnam War?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Tet Offensive
Detente
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
50
What German city was divided into East/West or Communist/Democratic?
Hamburg
Berlin
Munich
Frankfurt
51
The Japanese attacked where after Pearl Harbor?
Philippines
Germany
Austria
America
52
At the beginning of the war, Japan invaded China through what area?
Manchuria
Laos
Mongolia
Vietnam