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The Laws to limit Jewish rights in Germany during the 1930s were known as:
Munich Agreement
Race Purity Laws
Nuremberg Laws
Aryan Purity Laws
2
This was the secret codename for the creation of the Atomic Bomb:
Manhattan Project
Pacific Solution
Final Solution
Washington Project
3
December 7, 1941 was "a day to live in infamy" because of this:
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Dieppe Failure
Dresden Firestorm
Atomic Bombing
4
The Union of German people was known as:
Lebenstraum
Reunification
Panzers
Anchluss
5
After the Battle of Britain: "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" referred to:
Royal Tank Division
Royal Army
Royal Navy
Royal Air Force
6
The League of Nations failed in part to all of the following nations except:
United States
Japan
Great Britain
Italy
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Churchill coined this term to identify the divide between democracies and communists in Europe:
The Iron Curtain
The Democratic Divide
The Soviet Sphere
The Communist Circle
8
This leader was responsible for giving into Hitler's demands, called the Policy of Appeasement:
Neville Chamberlain
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
WLM King
9
This Canadian Prime Minister is credited with the creation of Peacekeepers:
Louis St. Laurent
WL Mackenzie King
Lester B. Pearson
Pierre Trudeau
10
The Holocaust succeeded in eliminating this many Jews from Europe:
2/3
1/3
1/2
1/4
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He was the brutal dictator of the Soviet Union:
Ivanovich
Stalin
Brezchnev
Lenin
12
During the Cuban Missile crisis, this nuclear alert was reached:
Pre-Nuclear War
Mutually Assured Destruction
Defcon 1
Defcon 2
13
The capture of this allowed the Allies to decode German messages:
Ultra Decoder
Enigma Decoder
Code Decoder
Code Breaker
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On D-Day, Canadians landed on this beach:
Juno
Omaha
Dieppe
Normandy
15
George Kennan's Long Telegraph shaped U.S. Cold War Policy known as:
Appeasement
Containment
Kremlin Submission
Communist Controls
16
Hitler broke the Non-Aggression Pact when he invaded:
Soviet Union
Austria
Poland
France
17
The British Prime Minister During WW2 after 1940:
Marg Thatcher
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain
Tony Blair
18
The Prime Minister of Canada during WW2 was:
Pierre Trudeau
WL Mackenzie King
Robert Borden
Wilfred Laurier
19
To make amends for Japanese internment, the Canadian government compensated survivors in 1988:
Internment Agreement
Redress Agreement
Japanese Compensation Act
War Measures Act
20
Hitler's need for more land for the German people was known as:
Lebenstraum
Wehrmacht
Anchluss
Luftwaffe
21
Every ship possible was commandeered in the name of the King for this amazing rescue:
Miracle at D-Day
Miracle at Dieppe
Miracle at Dunkirk
Miracle at Denmark
22
The Berlin Wall finally fell in:
1999
1963
1945
1989
23
The first country Hitler took by force using the Blitzkrieg was:
Czechoslovakia
France
Austria
Poland
24
This leader gave himself the nickname "Il Duce" and was eventually killed by his own people:
Stalin
Mussolini
Franco
Hitler
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Sending military supplies to Australia by accident, led to the failure of this battle:
Atlantic
Hong Kong
Dieppe
Midway