World War II

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Western democracies responded to Axis aggression with __________until the Nazi invasion of Poland.

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Appeasement

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Enthusiastic at first, the United States decided not to join the Allies after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)

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False

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The Nazis carried out a plan to exterminate European Jews, now known as the _______.

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Holocaust

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What was the name of the US project for developing an atomic fission weapon?

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Manhattan Project

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After the failed Nazi siege of Stalingrad and the successful D-Day landings at Normandy, Allied troops closed in on Germany.

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True

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US president who made the decision to use atomic weapons against Japan

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Harry S. Truman

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Japanese cities on which atomic bombs were dropped

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Tribunal to judge the most notorious Nazi war criminals.

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Nuremburg Trials

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Allied invasion of German territory in northern France (June 6, 1944)

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D Day Landing at Normandy

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The US president during the Great Depression and most of World War II was

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt