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Question 1

Marianas Turkey Shoot

Answer 1

Battle of the Philippines Sea

Question 2

Marco Polo Bridge Incident

Answer 2

Japanese-Chinese clashes on July 7, 1937 sparked a Japanese invasion
of China

Question 3

March on Rome

Answer 3

October 1922 coup by Mussolini and the fascist militias of his party

Question 4

Kristallnacht

Answer 4

Night of riots against Jews and Jewish establishments sparked by an
assassination of a Nazi official; November 9-10, 1938

Question 5

Korematsu v. United States

Answer 5

1944 Supreme Court case found in favor of the United States on
grounds that national security justified internment

Question 6

Korean War

Answer 6

Civil war on the Korean peninsula started in 1950

Question 7

Katyn Forest Massacre

Answer 7

Soviet massacre of 22,000 Polish military officers and intellectuals in
April and May 1940; discovered by German troops in 1943 and used
as anti-Soviet propaganda

Question 8

Japanese Imperial

Conference

Answer 8

Japanese government meeting on November 5, 1941 at which

conditions for going to war with the United States were agreed

Question 9

Ichi-Go

Answer 9

Japanese offensive in southern China, attacking Henan, Hunan, and
Guangxi and advancing to the Indochinese border from April to
December 1944

Question 10

First Battle of El Alamein

Answer 10

First Afrika Korps attack on British Egypt in July 1942; prompted
changes in British command with the appointment of Bernard Law
Montgomery

Question 11

Evian Conference

Answer 11

1938 meeting of 32 nations in which all representatives declared that
they could not welcome more Jewish refugees

Question 12

Dreyfus Affair

Answer 12

French political scandal in which Jewish army captain was falsely
accused of spying on Germany; led to anti-Semitic backlash

Question 13

Case Yellow

Answer 13

German invasion of France commencing May 10, 1940

Question 14

Casablanca Conference

Answer 14

American-British military conference held from January 14 to 24, 1943
to which Stalin declined his invitation; agreed on the planning of
Operation Husky and an invasion date for retaking France

Question 15

Beer Hall Putsch

Answer 15

Attempted coup by the Nazi Party in Bavaria, November 1923,

modelled after Mussolini’s March on Rome

Question 16

Battle of the Philippines

Sea

Answer 16

Aerial and naval battle of Saipan in June 1944 between Japan’s First
Mobile Fleet and American navy; also known as Marianas Turkey
Shoot

Question 17

Battle of Kasserine Pass

Answer 17

February 1943 battle between Allied troops and Afrika Korps; marked
first land engagement involving American soldiers

Question 18

Battle of the Java Sea

Answer 18

Japanese-ABDACOM naval battle on February 27, 1942; largest

surface battle since World War I; ended in Allied defeat

Question 19

Battle of the Coral Sea

Answer 19

May 1942 naval engagement off Port Moresby between Japan and
American-Australian fleets, largely carried out via aerial battle rather
than surface engagements

Question 20

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 20

Final major German offensive in the west, launched on December 16,
1944 along the Ardennes; failed at Bastogne by end January 1945

Question 21

Battle of the Atlantic

Answer 21

On-going naval conflict during World War II in which German U-boats
attempted to break Atlantic supply lines around Great Britain and
from the United States

Question 22

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Answer 22

Naval battle from October 23 to 26, 1944 off Leyte; resulted in
Japanese losses of four carriers, three battleships, 10 cruisers, nine
destroyers, and 10,000 men

Question 23

Bataan Death March

Answer 23

Forced march of prisoners after American surrender in the Philippines

Question 24

Atlantic Conference

Answer 24

August 1941 meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill that resulted
in the Atlantic Charter declaration

Question 25

Arab-Israeli War

Answer 25

1948 war prompted by creation of independent Israel from Palestine

Question 26

Anschluss

Answer 26

Merger of Germany and Austria forbidden under the Versailles Treaty;
forcibly imposed on Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938 to no British or
French resistance

Question 27

ABC-1 Conference

Answer 27

British-American military conference, March 1941; agreed on the
Europe-First strategy