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In 1940 Japan was forced to decide which it needed more,

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Indochina's raw materials or U.S. oil and scrap iron.

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Hitler planned to conquer the Soviet Union in order to

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secure land and Slavic slaves to strengthen the Third Reich.

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In December 1936, what did Chiang Kai-shek do in addition to ending his military efforts against the Communists?

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formed a front against Japan

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Hitler was confident that the Western states that had signed the Treaty of Versailles would

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not use force to maintain it.

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Chamberlain's Munich Conference with Hitler in 1938 resulted in Britain

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feeling that peace was secured.

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Britain and France declared war on Germany because Hitler invaded Poland.

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True

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Hitler wanted to pursue Anschluss, or union with his own homeland, Czechoslovakia.

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False (Anschluss, or union with Austria)

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Germany and Italy sent troops to Spain to help the revolutionaries fight France.

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False

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Italy sought Germany's support after its invasion of Ethiopia

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True

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Britain, France, and Hitler tried to secure an agreement with Joseph Stalin

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True

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policy of satisfying reasonable demands in exchange for peace

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appeasement

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alliance between Germany and Japan

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Anti-Comintern Pact

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agreement between Hitler and Stalin

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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

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alliance between Mussolini and Hitler

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Rome-Berlin Axis

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no weapons or fortifications permitted

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demilitarized

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The entire German Sixth Army was lost to the Russian defenders of

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Stalingrad

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Truman wanted to avoid an invasion of Japan because he believed that

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Americans would suffer heavy losses.

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Hitler's "lightning war," using air-supported panzer divisions

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blitzkrieg

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the German air force

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Luftwaffe

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site of Allies' D-Day invasion

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Normandy

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target of Japanese attack December 7, 1941

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Pearl Harbor

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series of fortifications along France's German border

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Maginot Line

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In the summer of 1942, British forces stopped German General _____________'s Afrika Korps at El Alamein.

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Rommel

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Although ____________________ announced its intention to liberate Southeast Asian lands from colonial rule, the countries under its control were treated as conquered areas.

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Japan

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Hitler wanted to defeat the ____________________ in 1941 before winter set in.

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Russians

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Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union was delayed by the failure of Mussolini's invasion of ____________________ in 1940.

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Greece

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Japanese leaders miscalculated American intent and thought that the United States would accept

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Japanese domination of the Pacific.

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Which country was referred to as the "soft underbelly" of Europe by Winston Churchill?

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Italy

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The turning point of the war in Asia that established U.S. naval superiority over Japan in the Pacific was the Battle of

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Midway Island

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At the beginning of 1943, the Allies agreed to seek from the Axis Powers nothing short of

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unconditional surrender

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Japan honored its promise to establish local governments in occupied territories.

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False

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Nearly two out of every three European Jews died as a result of the Holocaust.

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True

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Heinrich Himmler stated that Eastern European children should be taught that God ordered obedience to the Germans.

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True

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The Einsatzgruppen were special task forces that administer the Final Solution.

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True

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Three to four million Soviet prisoners of war were killed in captivity.

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True

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Hitler's Final Solution for the Jews

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Genocide

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the mass slaughter of European Jews

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Holocaust

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crowded, designated containment or holding areas within cities for Jews

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Ghettos

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had the task of administering the Final Solution

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Reinhard Heydrich

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Hitler's largest extermination center in Poland

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Auschwitz

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Some people did not believe or acknowledge the full horrors of Hitler's slaughter of civilians for all of these reasons EXCEPT one. Which one?

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A) World War I propaganda had exaggerated German atrocities. B) Some people pretended not to notice. C) Allied forces chose to focus on ending the war. D) Collaborators refused to help the Nazis hunt down Jews. D

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Germany ruled some areas such as Poland through direct annexation, but most of occupied Europe was run by German officials with

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local collaborators

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Foreign diplomats tried to save Jews by

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issuing exit visas

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Japan had conquered Southeast Asia during World War II by using the slogan

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"Asia for the Asiatics."

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The victims of the Holocaust included large numbers of all of the following groups EXCEPT

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A) Jews. C) the Roma. B) Slavic people. D) Italians. D-ITALIANS

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site of Truman's demands for free elections in Eastern Europe

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Potsdam

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"divine wind"

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kamikaze

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postwar ideological conflict between the United States and the USSR

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Cold War

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assembling and preparing for war

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mobilization

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British name for German air raids

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Blitz

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The ferocious bombing of Dresden may have killed as many as a hundred thousand Germans.

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True

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To maintain German morale during the war, Hitler refused to cut production of consumer goods.

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True

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The German bombing of London in 1940 destroyed British morale.

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False

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African American soldiers were segregated from white soldiers in separate U.S. battle units during World War II.

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True

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Between 1942 and 1943, Allied bombing virtually destroyed German industrial capacity.

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False

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The Tehran Conference in 1943 set in motion a plan that would ultimately result in

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Germany being divided along a north-south line into East and West.

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What did Stalin want to create to serve as a buffer for protecting the Soviet Union from the West?

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satellite, pro-Soviet governments

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The Yalta Conference resulted in the Big Three powers agreeing to

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divide Germany into four zones.

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Churchill called postwar Soviet policy in Eastern Europe the

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"Iron Curtain."

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At Yalta, the Big Three—the USSR, the United States, and Great Britain—agreed to

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establish the United Nations.

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