World War II - Europe

Germany had almost completely taken over France during World War II before the U.S. and the Allied forces took France back from Germany.

• True

• False

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What was D-Day?

• The day World War II started.

• The day the Allied forced invaded Normandy, France to take back France from Germany

• The day the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

• The day Woodstock took place

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What was so important about the D-Day landing?

• The U.S. needed to invade Japan

• The Allied forces needed to take back France from Germany in order to get to Germany and defeat Germany

• The Vietnam war had to end

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How did the Allies trick Germany in their Disinformation campaign leading up to D-Day?

• They sent false radio messages that would be intercepted by the Germans

• They set up phony military units with phony tanks

• All of the above

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What was the Holocaust?

• When Germany, under Adolf Hitler, killed 6 million Jews during World War II

• When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

• The Trail of Tears

• Sept. 11, 2001

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What happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) on April 12, 1945?

• He had his 100th birthday

• He died while serving his 4th year term as President

• He met with Hitler

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FDR wanted to be seen by the general public when he was in his wheelchair.

• True

• False

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Who replaced FDR as President for the rest of WWII?

• Spiro Agnew

• Teddy Roosevelt

• John F. Kennedy

• Harry Truman

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