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World War II in Asia began with
What is Japanese attacks on China
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The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the Rape of
What is Nanjing
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The Guomindang, during World War II, was
What is . the resistance government of the Chinese versus Japan’s invasion of China
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The Tripartite Pact brought together
What is Germany, Italy, and Japan
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The Italian fascists used this war as an excuse to intervene and gain valuable military experience?
What is Spanish civil war
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The weakness of the League of Nations was revealed in its inability to take any substantial action in response to the Italian invasion of
What is Ethiopia
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Adolf Hitler always spoke of the “November crime,” which was the
What is signing of the 1918 armistice
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In 1938, Germany sent troops into this country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss
What is Austria
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The high point of appeasement was
What is the Munich Conference
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In the wake of the Munich Conference, what leader proposed that the meeting had ensured “peace in our time”?
What is Neville Chamberlain
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While the Russian-German Treaty of Nonagression was on the surface a nonaggression treaty, it had secret stipulations that spelled out
What is the division of eastern Europe
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The European part of World War II began with the
What is German invasion of Poland
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The German Blitzkrieg referred to
What is a lightning war
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After the fall of France in 1940, the only country left to fight Germany was
What is Britain
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In the Battle of Britain, the Germans hoped to defeat the English almost solely through air attacks led by the
What is Luftwaffe
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Operation Barbarossa was the German plan for an invasion of
What is the Soviet Union
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Hitler’s comment “You only have to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come down” was a reference to which country
What is the Soviet Union
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By December 1941, the Soviets gained two new allies in their struggle to defeat the German invasion of their country: a severe winter and
What is the United States
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The Japanese goal in the bombing of Pearl Harbor was to
What is weaken the United States’ naval capacity
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“Asia for Asians” was the slogan of the
What is Japanese
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The key to the Allied victories in Europe and Asia was
What is industrial capacity
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This led to the end of German resistance in western Europe
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The U.S. victory in the Pacific that turned the tide against the Japanese was
What is Midway
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The U.S. secret weapon in the Pacific campaign was
What is a code-breaking operation known as Magic
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In the Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese introduced these
What is kamikaze pilots
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