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What were the Ghettos?
What was Kristallnacht?
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What was Kristallnacht?
The day all Jewish people were deported to the ghettos
The day all Jewish people were deported to concentration camps
Night of Broken Glass where nazis looted Jewish homes
The biggest concentration camp from the Holocaust
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What were the Ghettos?
The location used for Atomic Bomb testing
Run down areas of cities where Jewish people were segregated from others
A series of bunkers and trenches in France
The name for the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
3
Which of the following groups was NOT targetted by the Nazi party?
Disabled people
Jewish people
Poles
Aryans
4
Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany?
The Holocaust
The invasion of Poland
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
Operation Overlord was revealed
5
How did the U.S try to prevent Japan from attacking Britain in the Pacific?
They placed an embargo on Japan.
They used fire bombs.
They made an alliance with the Soviet Union.
They dropped two atomic bombs.
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What did the Nuremberg Laws do?
Outlawed the immigration of Jewish Germans to the United States
Stripped German Jews of their basic rights
Made antisemitism a criminal offense
Deported all Jewish people to concentration camps
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True or False: During the Nuremberg Trials, if you were following Nazi orders, you were found NOT guilty.
True
False
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Name this cause of WW2: European leaders tried to satisfy Hitler and give in to his demands to preserve peace.
Issues from the Treaty of Versailles
Appeasement
Hitler's Invasion of Poland
The Failure of the League of Nations
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Which of the following is NOT a way France and Britain tried to appease Hitler?
They allowed him to militarize despite what the Treaty of Versailles said
They gave him Sudetenland
They gave him Poland
10
Name this act: The U.S could send weapons to the British if Britain promised to return the weapons/ pay them back
Lend-Lease Act
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
The Manhattan Act
The Neutrality Act of 1935
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What is the name of the agreement that said Germany and the Soviet Union promised to not attack each other?
The Nuremberg Agreement
Soviet German Axis Alliance
Treaty of Versailles
Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
12
Which event caused the United States to join World War 2?
The bombing of Nagasaki
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Dunkirk
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Name this person: The dictator of Germany who committed suicide before Germany surrendered.
Franz Ferdinand
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
14
Why did so many Germans not speak up or fight against the Nazis?
Germans liked Nazi economic policies
Germans could benefit from Jewish deportations
All of the above
Propaganda that demonized Jewish people
15
Name this person: The Communist dictator of the Soviet Union.
Adolf Hitler
Franz Ferdinand
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
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Which of the following was NOT one of Truman's options when deciding how to get Japan to surrender?
Land invasion
Assassinate the Japanese Emperor
Issue a blockade on Japan
Air raid
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What is an unconditional surrender?
A surrender where the war will stop no matter what immediately after
A surrender where the losers equally split blame for the war
A surrender where no one takes the blame for the war
A surrender where the losers make no demands
18
Which of the following is NOT a cause of WW2?
The failure of the League of Nations
Hitler's invasion of Poland
The rise of dictators
The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand
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Why did President Truman decide to use atomic weapons against Japan?
The Soviet Union allied with Japan
The emperor refused to issue an unconditional surrender
They bombed Berlin
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Why is the Invasion of Poland important?
It was the last offensive German attack of World War II
Convinced France and Britain appeasement was not working
Immediately after, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered
It was the first Soviet victory of the war
21
Name this person: the American President that gave the order to use atomic weapons against Japan.
Harry S. Truman
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
22
Which of the following is an effect of the atomic bombings in Japan?
Over 100,000 people died
Citizens were severely burned and exposed to radiation
All of the above
Thousands of buildings were destroyed
23
Which of the following is NOT an example of a Nuremberg Law?
Jewish people and non-Jewish people could not be married
Jewish people had to have a red J on their passport
All Jewish people needed to fight for Germany in World War 1
Jewish people were no longer considered citizens of Germany
24
True or False: Jewish people were the only group sent to the concentration camps during the Holocaust.
True
False
25
Name this person: The Fascist dictator of Italy.
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Franz Ferdinand
Joseph Stalin
26
What was the Manhattan Project?
The code name for the D-Day invasion
The code name for the Allied Powers' attack on Berlin
None of the above
The code name given to the program to develop an atomic bomb
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True or False: At extermination camps, Jewish people were forced to work as slave laborers.
True
False
