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Who was the Chancellor of NaziGermany during World War II?

He was also known as“Der Führer” (leader)

Adolf Hitler

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On which two Japanese cities(in order) did the United States drop atomic bombs in order to

end World War II?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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What was the pre-War political term for giving-in to the aggressive dictators as away to prevent all-out war?

Appeasement

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What naval base did the Japaneseattack on a Sunday withoutwarning to begin American

involvement in World War II?

Pearl Harbor

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Harry S. Truman

Who became the U.S. President onthe death of president F.D.R.and decided to use the atomic

bomb to end the war with Japan?

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Auschwitz

What was the name of the largestand best-known extermination

center (death camp)?

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June 6, 1944

D-Day happened on which date?

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Normandy

What was the French regionthat was the site of the Alliedinvasion of Europe (D-Day)

in June 1944?

3,1

Descendents of Romans

Hitler believed that Aryans were descendents of whom?

3,2

Sudetenland

In 1938, Hitler threatened to useforce to get what section of

Czechoslovakia where manyGerman-speaking people lived?

3,3

Holocaust/genocide

What is the name given to theNazi attempt at systematically

eliminating “inferior” races(Jews, gypsies, Poles, etc.)?

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Midway Island

What was the June 1942 navalbattle where the Imperial

Japanese Navy was crushed bya smaller American fleet?

4,1

Island Hopping

What was the US strategy in the Pacific?

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Germany

Which country used lightening warfare?

4,3

Anschluss

What was the term used todescribe the forced union of

Austria with Germany in 1938?

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Dec. 7, 1941

What date was Pearl Harbor attacked?

5,1

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Who is the only President electedFOUR times who also led theUnited States during the GreatDepression and World War II?

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GB, F, US, Russia

What countries occupied Germany after WWII?

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September 1, 1939

What was the date of the beginning of WWII?

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Stalingrad

What city could the German armynot capture from the Russians inthe winter of 1942-1943 that was

a turning-point in the War?

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