World War II

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Who did Hitler make a nonaggression pact with before WW2?

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Stalin

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What term means German "lightning war?"

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Blitzkrieg

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Both Britain and France dealt with Hitler's aggression with ___________________

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appeasement

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Hitler annexed the following country in 1938 because he wanted more "living space": Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary

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Austria

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Which two Japanese cities were destroyed by atom bombs?

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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The defense of which Russian city marked a turning point on the Eastern Front of World War II? Options: Leningrad, Moscow, Odessa, Stalingrad

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Stalingrad

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What event led to the US joining World War II?

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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

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What was the Allied strategy in the Pacific known as?

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island-hopping

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Shortly after entering World War II, the United States began the Manhattan Project to

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work on the development of an atomic bomb

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All of the following were members of the Allied Powers EXCEPT: United States, France, Soviet Union

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Germany