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Question 1

Selective Service Act of 1940

Answer 1

required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards.

Question 2

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 2

Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

Question 3

Stalingrad

Answer 3

Soviet city where the German army was forced to surrender after a battle that lasted for months.

Question 4

D-Day

Answer 4

June 6. Allied invasion of France, largest seaborne invasion in history. 850,000 Allied troops invaded France.

Question 5

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 5

December 1944. Final German assault in Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg.

Question 6

Yalta Conference

Answer 6

February 1945. Conference where Allied leaders FDR, Stalin, Churchill (U.S., Soviet Union, U.K.) planned the post-war world. (punishment, reparations, denazification & demilitarization of Germany, Holocaust, prevention(United Nations-FDR’s top priority)).

Question 7

Holocaust

Answer 7

Nazi German crime of killing more than 11 million Jews and other persecuted peoples in concentration camps.

Question 8

anti-Semitism

Answer 8

prejudice against Jews, promoted by Hitler.

Question 9

Final Solution

Answer 9

a German plan for the extermination of the Jews