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What was the Korean War?
A war between Afghanistan and Israel
A war between North and South Korea
A war between North Korea and the UN/South Korea
A war between Britain and US
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What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
To help Western Europe
To help Northern Europe
To help Eastern Europe
To help Southern Europe
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Countries met at the Munich Conference to decide which country's fate?
Ethiopia
Manchuria
Poland
Czechoslavakia
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Hitler and Mussolini preferred which type of government
capitalism
Marxism
Communism
Fascism
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Who was the Cold War between??
US and USSR
Britain and Germany
France and USSR
US and Germany
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What is FDR's speech the day after Pearl Harbor most widely known as?
Day of Infamy
D-Day
Manhattan Project
New Deal
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What was the significance of the Battle of Midway?
Japanese soldiers could launch missiles from Cuba
Japanesenavy now had control of the Pacific
Is turning point in Pacific, U.S. begins offensive campaign
Japanese now had control over Pearl Harbor and Midway
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The Strategic Defense Initiative was a...
plan to defend East Europe in the event of a Soviet attack.
coalition of nations who agreed to police the Middle East.
series of military actions to root out communism.
program to use laser tech to defend America from missiles.
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When did the Cold War end?
1970
1947
1990
1991
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What was Hitler's Final Solution?
Hitler's plan to systematically kill an entire people
Hitler's plan to invade the United Sates after Pearl Harbor
Hitler's plan to invade Poland
Hitler's plan to dominate the entire world
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What was the Bay of Pigs?
An open field where people celebrated their new government.
An attempted assault on Cuba to over throw government.
A military base that the Cuban people wanted to hold hostage.
A beach that could have been the spearhead of the invasion of Cuba.
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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?
The Bolsheviks
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Vladimir Lenin
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Who became president after Franklin D. Roosevelt died?
Douglas MacArthur
Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
Dwight Eisenhower
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Why was NATO created?
To provide security against terroism
To provide security against the Soviet Union
More allies
Trade
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Which laws took citizenship away from JewishGermans?
Treaty of Versailles
nonaggression pact
Nuremberg Laws
Yalta Conference
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What was the non-aligned movement?
Countries aiming to fix corrupt government
Countries that refused to pick a side in the Cold War
Countries without political parties
Countries with high rates of scoliosis
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Who were the Japanese suicide bombers?
blitzkrieg
SA (Storm Troopers)
Kamikazes
Lutwaffe
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The Berlin Wall creates a barrier between:
North and East
North and South
North and West
East and West
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Which two cities did the United States use the atomic bomb on?
Tokyo and Nagasaki
Beijing and Berlin
Hiroshima and Tokyo
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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What date did America drop the A-bomb on Nagasaki?
September 2, 1945
August 6, 1945
July 26, 1945
August 9, 1945
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Before the war Britain and France gave into Hitler's demands, a policy known as....
appeasement
phony war
blitzkrieg
isolationism
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Which best defines blitzkrieg?
using slow methodical methods of killing
large #s of tanks to break through & encircle enemy position
using suicide bombers (kamikazes)
using modern weapons
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What was Sputnik?
A man-made satellite
Atomic bomb
Animal to travel into space
Rocketship
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What was the cold war?
A rivalry between the united states and the soviet union.
A world war.
A war involving Russia and netherlands
A war that was very cold.
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The Tehran Conference decided:
On how to divide power war-Germany
On unconditional surrender
Where the second front/ D Day attack should be
Where to use the nuclear weapons on
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What battle was the German's last attempt to gain control in the war?
Battle of Leningrad
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Midway
D-Day
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Why did relations between USSR and Germany go badly?
Hitler allied with Japan
Hitler broke the nonaggression pact
Hitler invaded with Italy who was Stalin's main enemy
Hitler invade Poland
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Who was the leader of Great Britain during World War II?
Queen Elizabeth II
Harry Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
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Hitler wanted the Sudetenland. What country did this territory belong to?
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Manchuria
Poland
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What was Space race?
The competition between U.S. and USSR regarding achievements in Space.
Competition for supremacy in warfare between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
The competition to improve education in Math and Science the U.S.
It was a highly visible 'proxy war' between the U.S. and Soviets
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What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials?
Movement to create a Jewish homeland
Took away rights of German Jews
Hold Nazis accountable for the Holocaust
Prejudice against the Jews
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What is the significance of D-Day?
Axis troops were able to invade Soviet Union
Last major German offensive attempt
Bloodiest battle in history of warfare
The Allied troops liberated France
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What date is known as D-Day?
June 6, 1944
December 7, 1941
June 6, 1945
June 25, 1944
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Which of the following is false? Destalinization...
...was an American plan to assassinate Stalin.
...was a series of political reforms in the USSR.
...was overseen by new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
...began after Stalin's death in 1953.
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Prior to World War II, Japan had been invading different parts of Asia.
False
True
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Which of the following was a goal of the Yalta Conference?
to provide emergency relief to countries destroyed by war
to impose strict sanctions on the Soviet Union
to punish Germany and Japan
to promote a peaceful postwar world order
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What marks the official beginning of WWII?
Battle of Britain
Germany's invasion of Poland
Hitler taking over Czechoslavakia
Pearl Harbor
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What was Truman's rationale for dropping a bomb on Japan that killed so many civilians?
He really enjoyed using nuclear weapons
He wanted to send a message to the rest of the world
He wanted to pay back the Japanese for Midway
He did not want to spare anymore American troops' lives
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What two countries did the Truman Doctrine help directly?
Turkey and Greece
Iran and Greece
Iran and Turkey
Italy and Pakistan
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When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1940
December 7, 1941
September 1, 1939
December 7, 1943
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Why did Japan launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?
cut off their weapon shipments
cut off their steel production
all of the above
cut off their oil shipments
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How was Japan treated by the US and Allies after WW2?
Japan was left alone to continue its imperial militarism.
Japan was punished severely and became a colony of China.
Japan was occupied, given aid, and adopted democratic laws.
Japan was forced to accept Communism by the occupying USSR.
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Which American territory was briefly taken by the Japanese during World War II?
Hawaii
California
Midway
Philippines
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What date did America drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima?
July 26, 1945
August 9, 1945
September 2, 1945
August 6, 1945
