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What is fascism? Who were the two most important fascist leaders? |
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What is appeasement? Why did it not work? |
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Give three reasons the United States stayed out of World War II for so long. |
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In what ways was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor a failure? |
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What was the turning point of the Pacific War? Why? |
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List three special measures the United States took on the home front to prepare for war. |
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What is the significance of Casablanca? Yalta? Potsdam? |
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Hitler's Main Kampf proposed all of the following escept to
-strengthen the League of Nations
-end democracy in Germany
-eliminate all Jews
-create a new German order |
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strengthen the League of Nations |
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Which term is not associated with fascism?
-individualism
-nationalism
-militarism
-totalitarianism |
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What African nation did Italy conquer in 1935? |
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What was the first act of naked aggression in the 1930s? |
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria |
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Which of these events occurred first?
-German occupation of the Sudetenland
-German occupation of the Rhineland
-German unification with Austria
-German invasion of Poland |
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German occupation of the Rhineland |
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What was the German Anschluss? |
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What country was forced to give Germany some of its territory as a result of the Munich Conference? |
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The German invasion of what nation sparked World War II? |
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Which nation was last to fall to Germany in the spring of 1940? |
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What type of warfare was the Battle of Britain? |
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airplane battles over England |
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Which country was never invaded by German soldiers? |
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Which country did German soldiers invade but never force to surrender? |
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What major factor kept the United States out of the early stages of World War II? |
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resentment over Allied failure to pay war debts |
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What was the main provision of the Neutrality Act of 1939? |
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Warring nations must purchase weaponry from the United States on a cash basis and carry it in their own ships. |
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What American hero became a leading spokesman for isolationism? |
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Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" included all of the following except freedom
-from fear
-from want
-of opportunity
-of worship |
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What was most significant about the Atlantic Charter? |
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One of Roosevelt's responses to Japan's conquest of French Indochina was to... |
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place an oil embargo on Japan |
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Who was the American Army commander in the Far East? |
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What event brought America into World War II? |
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
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In what year did the United States enter World War II? |
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Which of these events occurred last?
-America's entry into the war
-Battle of Britain
-German invasion of Russia
-fall of France |
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America's entry into the war |
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Who was America's admiral at the Battle of Midway? |
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What is not one of the measures America took to support the war effort at home?
-America First committees
-rationing
-recycling
-War Production Board |
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The war had all of the following effects on the American home from except an increase
-of women on the assembly line
-in taxes
-in national debt
-in consumer goods |
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What did "Rosie the Riveter" symbolize during World War II? |
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Who was the famous German "Desert Fox"? |
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Where did American forced first fight the Germans? |
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What British commander helped to defeat the Germans in North Africa? |
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To what desperate measure did the Japanese resort beginning with the Battle of Leyte Gulf? |
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What island did American forces capture as a final preparation for the invasion of Japan? |
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What issue was at the top of Roosevelt's agenda at Yalta? |
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formation of an international organization for peace |
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What was the triple alliance of dictatorships during World War II called? |
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What country signed a secret nonagression pact with Germany? |
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In what year did World War II begin? |
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What country did Germany invade in Operation Barbarossa? |
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What act empowered the president to supply any Allied nation on almost any terms he wished? |
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What agreement between Churchill and roosevelt listed their "common principles" and goals in the war effort? |
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According to Roosevelt, what date (day, month, year) would "live in infamy"? |
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what government organization controlled the conversion of American industry to military production? |
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In which section of northern France did the Allied Expeditionary Force land in 1944? |
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To how many terms was Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president of the United States? |
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What secret weapon brought the War in the Pacific to an early end? |
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Yes or No
The Nazi party opposed democracy as a "weakening influence." |
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The League of Nations successfully stopped Italian aggression through economic sanctions. |
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Japan Launches a full-scale attack on China before Germany ever invaded Poland. |
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At least twenty million Russians died as a direct or indirect result of Stalin's agricultural reforms. |
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Appeasement was a great success. |
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The Soviets signed a nonaggression pact with Germany because they shared common political viewpoints. |
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The German blitzkrieg became bogged down in Poland for almost two years. |
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Hitler broke his nonaggression pact less than two years after signing it. |
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The Allies resented America's demands for repayment of war debts. |
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America's Neutrality Acts of 1937 and 1939 hurt the Allies more than the Germans because Germany was unable to buy American supplies anyway. |
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Congress passed America's first peacetime draft in 1940 to prepare for the possibility of war. |
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Roosevelt promised during the election of 1940, "Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." |
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Roosevelt remained stritly neutral in the early years of the war because he did not want to anger Hitler. |
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During World War II the United States placed some 120,000 Japanese-Americans in detention camps without ever charging them with any crimes. |
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The war in the Pacific turned in America's favor with the Battle of Midway. |
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Roosevelt opposed raising taxes to support the war effort. |
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Although the American invasion of Italy began as a success, it became bogged down in northern Italy. |
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D-day, the greatest invasion in history, was a crucial success for the Allies. |
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Although the American invasion of France began as a success, it became bogged down in central France. |
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The Battle of the Bulge was an important Nazi success. |
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Many Japanese soldiers preferred to kill themselves than surrender. |
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Germany was defeated before Japan. |
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The dropping of atomic bombs on Japan may have actually saved lives because it kept the United States from invading the Japanese mainland. |
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