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Who did the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression pact with in 1939?
Germany
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Why is Isoroku Yamamoto famous?
for masterminding the Japanese naval strategy during World War II
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What did Hitler incorrectly call the Germanic people he considered the "master race"?
Aryans
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Who was the supreme commander of the Western Allied forces in Europe?
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Which nation lost the most lives in the war?
Soviet Union
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Great Britain and France entered WWII because of the invasion of
Poland
200
Who went on the Bataan Death March, and why?
Allied prisoners of war, because the Japanese forced them to
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What happened on Kristallnacht?
Nazis attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany and murdered Jews.
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What was D-Day?
The Allied invasion of France
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What group was tried at the Nuremberg Trials?
Nazis
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Who did the Germans first successfully use the blitzkrieg attack on?
Poland
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What battle turned the tide of war in the Pacific against Japan and allowed the allies to begin taking the offensive
The Battle of Midway
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What was the first "solution" to the "Jewish problem," and why wasn't Hitler satisfied?
Emigration, but there weren't enough countries willing to take enough Jews
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What was the main target of the kamikazes?
ships
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Who led efforts to draw up the Japanese constitution?
Douglas MacArthur
400
Charles de Gaulle was the
leader of the French government in exile and the Free French
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Why were the Pacific islands attacked and seized during the Allied "island hopping" chosen?
They were the least heavily defended by Japan
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What is genocide?
the systematic killing of an entire people
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What did Stalin repeatedly urge Churchill and Roosevelt to do in order to relieve German pressure on Soviet armies?
invade France
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Which group organized and oversaw the demilitarization of Japan?
U.S. Army
500
The Atlantic Charter was a declaration of the right to freedom of
trade
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Who was the mastermind of the "island-hopping" strategy?
Douglas MacArthur
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What was the main goal of the "Final Solution"?
to protect the so-called racial purity of the Germans ("Aryans")
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Which general led the victorious troops in the Battle of El Alamein?
Bernard Montgomery
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Under the postwar constitution of Japan, who was the head of government?
a prime minister selected by the diet