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Who ran a total totalitarian government in the Soviet union

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Joseph Stalin

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Who founded the fascist party in Italy

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Benito Mussolini

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Leader of the Nazi party in Germany

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Adolf Hitler

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Prime minister of Japan

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Hideki Tojo

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England’s prime minister after 1940

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Winston Churchhill

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Who is the general lead operation overlord

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General Dwight D Eisenhower

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Who is the vice president that becomes the 33rd president after President Roosevelt died

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Harry S Truman

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Who is the American scientist that helps on the project creating the atomic bomb

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Robert Oppenheimer

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Who is the president that ordered the atomic bombs to be dropped

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Truman

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Who is the general that occupied Japan

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Douglas MacArthur

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Who was the prime minister of Britain from 1937 to 1940

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Neville Chamberlain

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What is island hopping

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Island by Island allies won territory back from the Japanese and moved closer to Japan

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Describe the wartime economy

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Very harsh, passing of the land lease act, having to ration, woman had to take over the men’s jobs

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What were braceros

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Migrant workers from Mexico use to fill labor shortage

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What was the double V campaign

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A civil rights movement that called for the victory against the axis powers and victory in the struggle for economy

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What was the Manhattan project

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A project to create a new powerful weapon, The atomic bomb

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Who led the Manhattan project

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General Leslie Groves and American scientist Robert openHeimer

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A government that controls the cultural, economic, social, and political aspects of its citizens is known as a _________ state

A. Democratic
B. Socialist
C. Totalitarianism
D. Utopian

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C. Totalitarianism

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What was the land lease act

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The United States would provide war supplies to Britain and worry about payment later

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Who are the Allied powers

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England France and the United States

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Who are the axis powers

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Germany Italy and Japan

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What ethnic group did FDR put into internment camps with the executive order 9066

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Japanese-Americans

23
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The icon of American industrial workers during World War II was known by what name

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Rosie the riveter

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Who are the Tuskegee airmen

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The all black 99 pursuit squadron that one two distinguish unit citation’s

25
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What were code talkers

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The language of the Navajo that was used to relay Messages and operations amongst the Pacific Fleet

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What was the Yalta conference

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The meeting of the big three deciding how to split Germany and re-organize the government of Poland

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How was Germany split due to the Yalta conference

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Into separate peacekeeping zones that were split up between members of the allies

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How was the government of Poland re-organize due the yalta conference

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It was allowed for free elections now

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What was the results of the yalta conference

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Soviet union agrees to enter the war against Japan and Germany surrenders on the VE day

30
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What was VE Day and when

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Victory in Europe; May 8, 1945

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What was the VJ Day; when

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Victory in Japan; September 2, 1945

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What were the Nuremberg trials

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War crimes trials of German and Japanese military officials

33
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What did the Nürnberg trials represent

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It showed that individuals can be held responsible for wartime atrocities

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What were the main results of World War II

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The Nurenberg trials, United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers, and the morality of nuclear warfare was questioned

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What was the battle of Midway significance

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Goal to attack Japanese carriers, It was seen as the turning point in the Pacific theater

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What is the significance of the battle of Okinawa

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Obtaining the last obstacle between the allies and Japan, shows the problems of a land evasion of Japan

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What was D-day

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Goal to liberate France, the largest amphibious assault in history involved was nearly 3,000,000 British, American, and Canadian troops

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What was the plan for the invasion of D-day

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Paratroopers dropped behind a enemy lines with brutal fighting on Omaha Beach

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What was D-days codename

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Operation overlord

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Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor

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US was no longer selling supplies to Japan, we froze their assets in the US, and we had control of the Pacific

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What day was Pearl Harbor

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December 7, 1941

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What was the result of the attack on Pearl Harbor

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It was not a total success because they did not destroy our aircraft carriers

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What brought the US out of debt, bad economy, and depression

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The involvement in World War II

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What was the Doolittle raid

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And air raid by the US on Tokyo, the first airstrike on the Japanese home lands

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Why did the US choose to drop the atomic bomb

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Invading Japan would result in high casualties, animosity towards Japan for pearl harbor, The want for a quick end to the war to keep the Soviets from taking Japan

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Describe the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima; why and what was the bomb called

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Hiroshima was a military base with 25% of Japan’s army, there is no previous damage, the geography of the location would intensify the blast; the bomb, Little Boy, is dropped by the plane, Enola Gay

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Describe the bombing of Nagasaki; why and what was bomb called

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Originally meant for Kokura but there was cloud coverage; The bomb, fat man, dropped by the plane , boxcar

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Describe Japan after the war

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Japan was occupied by US forces under General MacArthur

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What had to be rationed for the troops during the harsh economic times of the US

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Meat, fuel, and metal

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