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Module 14.1, 2 and 4
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All four Japanese aircraft carriers were destroyed in this Pacific battle.
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Guadalcanal
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From this beach, an amateur armada of British boats carried 338,000 troops to safety in 1940.
Normandy
Cannes
Dunkirk
Manhattan
3
From 1940-1941 Germans bombed London and other British cities in the Battle of...
Trafalgar
Britain
El Alamein
the Bulge
4
The British prime minister who lead Britain through WW2 was...
Winston Churchill
David Lloyd George
Margaret Thatcher
Eric Idle
5
In 1940, the Nazis forced the Polish Jews to live off 184 calories a day in this.
Auschwitz
Dachau
Rhineland
Warsaw Ghetto
6
This man was the commander of Japan's navy and chief naval strategist.
Emperor Hirohito
Ichiro Suzuki
Sasuke Uchiha
Isoroku Yamamoto
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On Sept 1, 1939 Germany attacked which country and officially started the war in Europe?
Poland
France
Belgium
the Soviet Union
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The headquarters for the German-run government in German occupied France was in...
Vichy
Verdun
Orleans
Paris
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What happened on Dec 7, 1941?
the U.S. and Britain issued the Atlantic Charter
the Battle of Stalingrad ended
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor bringing the U.S. into WW2
the D-Day Invasion
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Hitler's last desperate attack on the West was...
the Battle of Britain
the Battle of the Bulge
the Battle of El Alamein
the Battle of Stalingrad
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A French government in exile was set up after the fall of France by...
Marquis de Lafayette
Georges Danton
Philippe Petain
Charles de Gaulle
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The American tactic of taking weaker Japanese-controlled islands to get closer to Japan...
island-hopping
island-shuffle
fleet-hopping
island-skipping
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Hitler's plan to exterminate all of the Jews.
the Final Solution
Operation Overlord
lebensraum
Operation Barbarossa
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In August of 1939, which two countries signed a nonaggression pact to divide Eastern Europe?
Britain and Germany
the U.S. and the Soviet Union
France and Italy
Germany and the Soviet Union
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After the war Japan's new government was a...
democracy
socialism
constitutional monarchy
military dictatorship
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Joint U.S./British declaration for people's right to choose their own government.
Treaty of Versailles
Yalta Conference
Atlantic Charter
Potsdam Declaration
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The german city where Nazi war criminals were put on trial was...
Berlin
Dresden
Hamberg
Nuremberg
18
Meaning "lightening war" this was Germany's new military tactic in WW2.
guerrilla warfare
blitzkrieg
lebensraum
Maginot Line
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Germany's air force was called the...
Luftwaffe
lebenfuhrer
ubermench
RAF
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Mussolini was captured disguised as a German officer in...
North Italy
Yugoslavia
Sicily
South Italy
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This battle finally put the Germans on the defensive against the Soviets.
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Leningrad
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Britain
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Japanese suicide pilots with bomb-filled planes were called...
bonzai
daimyos
samurai
kamikazes
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The more common name for Operation Overlord...
VJ-Day
D-Day
Island-hopping
Operation Torch