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Instructions: Identify the following terms. Hitler Jugend

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Describe the Holocaust in terms of its most significant events and participants. Which groups were targeted, and why?

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The Holocaust was a systematic, state-sp...

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Although Hitler succeeded in taking control of Germany's educational system, he failed to intimidate the Catholic and Protestant churches.

A) True
B) False

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At the meeting of the Big Three at Tehran


A) it was agreed to use the atomic bomb against Japan.
B) Churchill strongly advocated an American-only invasion of France.
C) the Allies decided to partition postwar Germany.
D) Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to let Stalin take control of Eastern Europe.
E) the Soviet Union agreed to declare war against fascist Spain.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and C)

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What were the costs of World War II? How did World War II affect the European nations' colonial empires? How did the Allies' visions of the postwar world differ, and how did these differences contribute to the emergence of the Cold War? How did the attempt to arrive at a peace settlement after World War II lead to the beginnings of a new conflict known as the Cold War? What were the most significant ideas and outcomes of the conferences at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam?

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The costs of World War II were staggerin...

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Instructions: Identify the following terms. Blitzkrieg

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Blitzkrieg, a term derived from the Germ...

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Instructions: Identify the following terms. Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

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Pearl Harbor refers to a United States n...

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The greatest tank battle during WW II was the Battle of ​


A) Stalingrad​
B) El-Alamein
C) Kursk
D) Rome
E) the Bulge

F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

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The Nuremberg Laws established the


A) process of collectivization.
B) ethnic racial homogeneity of Nazi Germany by expelling all Asians.
C) institutionalization of an annual kristallnacht celebration at the end of June.
D) the legal isolation of German Jews from citizenship and legal rights.
E) Nazi renunciation of all anti-Semitic policies in Germany.

F) None of the above
G) D) and E)

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Major German initiatives in moving toward control of Europe before 1939 included all of the following except the


A) occupation of the Rhineland in 1935.
B) German seizure of Libya in 1935.
C) two-stage takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939.
D) union with Austria.
E) formation of the Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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Instructions: Identify the following terms. Erwin Rommel and El Alamein

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Which of the following was not part of Japanese expectations and war strategy?


A) formal alliance with Germany
B) total destruction of the United States Pacific Fleet
C) American acquiescence to Japanese Pacific hegemony
D) the American public's support for Franklin Roosevelt's policy of war on Japan
E) the self-indulgent American propensity to avoid going to war

F) None of the above
G) B) and E)

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Discuss Japan's successes and failures in its conflict with China from 1931 until 1945.

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Japan's conflict with China from 1931 to...

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Instructions: Identify the following terms. the "Final Solution," the Holocaust, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zyklon B

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Instructions: Identify the following terms. Mukden incident and Manchukuo

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The Mukden Incident, also known as the M...

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Instructions: Identify the following terms. Dunkirk evacuation

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At the Yalta Conference,


A) De Gaulle demanded equal industrial reparation payments for all victor nations.
B) Stalin agreed to "free elections" in Eastern Europe.
C) Truman received word of the successful testing of an atomic bomb.
D) Churchill made his "Iron Curtain" speech.
E) the Truman Doctrine was issued.

F) C) and D)
G) All of the above

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In Japan, after 1929,


A) the Great Depression increased both exports and wages.
B) a policy of political and diplomatic conciliation with China was followed.
C) right-wing extremists began to terrorize and at times murder opponents.
D) a formal treaty of non-aggression was made with the United States.
E) Prime Minister Tojo forced the emperor to declare war on Germany.

F) A) and D)
G) A) and B)

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Which of the following was not true about Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy?


A) It gave him total control over all aspects of Italian life.
B) It never achieved the totality of power, in repression and media control that the dictatorships in Germany and the Soviet Union did.
C) It tried to involve all Italian youth in a program of indoctrination, but achieved only limited success in that area.
D) It maintained a program of traditional values in regard to women, and mutual acceptance and coexistence with the Catholic Church.
E) It was strongly supported by business and large landlord groups.

F) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

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What socio-economic factors carried during the period after World War I to create conditions ripe for the rise of fascism?  What appeal did totalitarianism have to the people of western Europe?   ​Why did no one raise concerns about the insidious underpinnings?

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