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What country did Hitler invade in 1939 that
started WWII in Europe?

• Poland

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The US policy in the first years of WWII

• Neutral, isolationist

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Air battle where the Luftwaffe tried to bomb the
British into submission

• Battle of Britain

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What country did Hitler turn his back on in 1941
and invade?

• USSR, Russia

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In return for bases in the Caribbean, what did we
give the British?

• War Supplies

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What act did FDR compare to giving your neighbor
a garden hose

• Lend-Lease Act

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What countries did Japan invade in the 1930s

• Manchuria
• China

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What materials did the US embargo from Japan?

• Steel
• Oil

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What was the date which will live in infamy?

• December 7, 1941

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What happened on this date?

• Japanese Bombed Pearl Harbor

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What was major Allied strategy in WWII?

• Defeat Hitler First

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What was the US strategy in the Pacific Theater

• Island Hopping

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What resource were the Nazis desperate to get?

• Oil

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What North African battle prohibited the Nazis
from getting the Suez Canal and ME oil?

• EL Alamein

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What Russian battle captured hundreds of
thousands of Germans and prevented the Nazis from
getting oil?

• Stalingrad

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What was the name of the invasion that began the
liberation of Europe?

• D-Day
• Operation Overlord

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What day did D-Day occur

• June 6, 1944

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What battle was the turning point of the Pacific
Theater?

• Midway

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What was its nickname?

• The Miracle at Midway

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What were the final major battles in the island
hopping campaign?

• Iwo Jima
• Okinawa

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What were the two Japanese cities that the Atomic
bombs were dropped on?

• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki

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Why did we drop the bombs?

• Prevent a land invasion of Japan

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What was the name of the African-American fighter
pilots?

• Tuskegee Airmen

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What language was used to transmit codes in the
Pacific War?

• Navajo

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What was the most decorate military unit in US
History?

• Nisei Regiments
• Japanese-Americans

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What tried to establish rules to POW treatment

• Geneva Convention

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What was the name of the force march of American
soldiers in the Philippines?

• Bataan Death March

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What did Japanese soldiers do sometimes instead
of surrender?

• Committee Suicide

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What is the systematic destruction of a specific
group of people called?

• Genocide

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What was Hitler's plan called to eliminate the
Jews

• The Final Solution

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What groups were affected by the Holocaust?

• Jews
• Poles
• Slavs
• undesirables

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What were the war crimes for the Nazis called?

• Nuremburg Trials

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What did the trials led to a demand for?

• A Jewish Homeland

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How did the US allocate scarce resources?

• Rationing

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How did the government pay for the war?

• War Bonds Income Taxes

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What was the nickname for women the women working
in the factories?

• Rosie the Riveter

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How did we help fill our armed forces?

• Draft
• Selective Service

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What did we do to Japanese-Americans on the West
Coast?

• Force them to Internment Camps

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What did the government do to information going
into and out of the country

• Censorship

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What did Hitler sign with Stalin in 1939?

• Non-Aggression Pact

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What is Anti-Semitism?

• Hated for the Jews

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A government controlled by one political party or
person

• Totalitarianism

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The name for Hitlers lighting war

• Blitzkrieg

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Who was the fascist leader in Italy?

• Benito Mussolini

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Who was the emperor of Japan?

• Hirohito

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Who was the crazy, mass murdering, Nazi, Jerk?

• Adolph Hitler

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Who was the Prime minister of Great Britain?

• Winston Churchill

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Who was the US President for most of WWII?

• FDR

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Who was the President who dropped DA BOMB!

• Harry Truman

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What event actually brought US into WWII?

• Pearl Harbor

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What was the battle that Nazis were unable to
stop the British and French from evacuate?

• Dunkirk

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Why did unemployment decrease in 1940 and 1941?

• Nations industry was gearing up for war

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What was the result of the Munich Conference in
1938?

• The English and the French sold out
  Czechoslovakia