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what started the Second Sino-Japanese War?

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armies overrunning eastern China

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how did Italy gain Ethiopia?

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their weapons were outdated

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how did Hitler first deify the Treaty of Versailles?

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he sent troops into the demilitarized Rhineland

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4
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what is pacifism?

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the action of keeping peace

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how did America try to stay out of the war?

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congress passed the Neutrality acts

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what did the neutrality acts say?

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it is illegal to help countries in the war and you cannot board any ship that is involved in war

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who were the Axis powers?

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Italy, Germany, and Japan

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what united Germany and Austria?

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the Anschluss

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what land did Hitler annex?

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the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia

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10
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what happened at the munch conference?

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european democracies again chose appeasement

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what did Hitler sign promising not to invade Stalin?

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the Nazi-Soviate pact

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12
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why did Britain and France declare war on Germany?

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Because they promised to protect Poland; Germany invaded Poland

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How did Hitler invade Poland?

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through a blitzkrieg (lightning war) and the Luftwaffe bombed factories and towns

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14
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what was going on when Hitler invaded Poland?

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The soviet union was invading the other side at the same time

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How did German forces attack France?

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they bypassed the Maginot line and invaded though Belgium

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what happened at the merical of Dunkirk?

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Britain sent ships across the English Channel and evacuated stranded ships.

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17
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what did Vicky France become after the invasion?

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a puppet state

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18
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who occupied Northern France?

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Germany

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19
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what did Charles de Gaulle do?

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led the “free French” from Britain

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20
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who were the RAF

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The Royal Air Force

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21
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how did civilians survive the battle of Britain?

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they hid in the London underground (subway)

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how did Prime Minister Churchill govern during the battle of Britain?

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from an underground bunker

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23
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who was the “desert fox”?

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General Erwin rommel

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24
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where did Hitler send the “desert fox”?

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North Africa

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who was the red army?

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the soviet union

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what did the soviet union do in fear of Germany advancing?

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they launched a scorched earth policy

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why did many nazis die when invading the soviet union?

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they couldn’t survive the cold winters

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what happened at the siege of Leningrad?

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over a million leningraders died but the city did not fall to Germany

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what did the lend-lease act do?

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allowed FDR to aid any nation whos defence was vital to American security

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30
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what was the Atlantic charter?

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a document that set goals for war and the postwar world.

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31
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who signed the Atlantic Charter?

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FDR and Churchill

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32
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why did the US cut off supplies to Japan?

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They kept invading countries

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33
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who was the leader of Japan in WW2?

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Hideki Tojo

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who was joseph stalin?

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the leader of the soviet union

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35
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when was the attack on Pearl Harbor

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December 7 1941

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36
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what was the saying from the attack on Pearl Harbor?

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“a date which will live in infamy”

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37
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how many Japanese warplanes were sent to Pearl Harbor?

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180

38
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How did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

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with bombs and strafed (shot from an airplane)

39
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what did the US do in response to Pearl Harbor?

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Declared war on Japan

40
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what restored the economy after the great depression?

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wartime production

41
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how did the US finance the war?

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the treasury department sold war bonds to fund the war

42
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how did the US ration food and other items?

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with the use of rationing books

43
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who was Rosie the riveter?

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a symbol for women who entered wartime industries

44
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where did Americans send Japanese and Nazi people during the war?

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to internment camps

45
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who was Britain’s general at the Battle of El Alamein?

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Benard Montgomery

46
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what happened at the battle of EL Alamein?

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The British pushed Rommels Afrika troops back across Libya

47
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who was the general who attacked Sicily?

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American General Gorge S. Patton

48
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what happened when the Allies advanced through Italy?

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Germans in northern Italy surrendered

49
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what was the turning point of the war in the East?

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Stalingrad

50
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what was D-day?

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the invasion of Normandy by being the largest landing by sea in history

51
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what sparked the Battle of the Bulge?

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Germany launched a counterattack after D-day

52
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what did Germany realize at the Battle of the Bulge?

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defeat was inevitable

53
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who were the big three?

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Rosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

54
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what day did Germany surrender on?

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Victory in Europe day. or V-E day

55
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when Germany surrendered how was it split?

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4-way split where each split was controlled by a major ally

56
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what became the official policy of Nazi Germany?

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antisemitism

57
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what were the Nuremberg laws?

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laws that stripped Jews of their German citizenship

57
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how could Germans tell if someone was a Jew?

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Jews were forced to carry id cards with a J for Jew on them

58
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what was the private police of the Nazi party?

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The SS

59
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who were the Gestapo?

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the secrete police of Germany

60
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what did the Gestapo do?

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Persecuted people who did not follow new nazi laws

61
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what was Kristallnacht?

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“the night of broken glass” where Nazis looted and destroyed Jewish stores, houses, and synagogues

62
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Did the US ease its immigration laws for immigrant Jews?

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no

63
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where were Polish Jews put under Nazi control?

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the warsaw ghetto

64
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who were the einstagruppen and what did they do?

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mobile killing units who murdered Jews in Poland by firing squad

65
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what was the name of the gas used to kill jews in death camps?

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Zyklon B

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where did they take elderly women and children as well as sick or disabled people as soon as they got to the camps?

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the gas chambers

67
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what did they do with the dead Jews bodies in death camps

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they burned them

68
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What did Jews do in the camps?

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hard labor

69
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who was the angel of death?

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Dr Joseph Mengel

70
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how many people died in the Holocaust?

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around 11 million

71
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how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?

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around 6 million

72
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what happened in the Warsaw ghetto uprising?

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700 Jews fought 2000 Germans

73
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what happened to Nazis who participated in the holocaust?

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they were sentenced to death or given life imprisonment for war crimes

74
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who was general MacArthur?

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the American general stationed in the Philippines

75
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where did FDR tell MasAurthur to escape to before the attack on the Philippines?

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Australia

76
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what happened in the Philippines

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Americans surrender to the Japanese

77
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what was the Battan death march?

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a death march where Japanese soldiers made Philippines people march for 6-12 days back and forth

78
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what was the first naval battle to be carried out entirely by aircraft?

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the battle of the coral sea

79
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who won the battle of the Coral Sea?

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no one but it was a moral victory for the allies

80
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what happened at the Battle of Midway?

A

americans demolished 4 Japanese carries

81
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what type of war happened at the battle of Guadal canal?

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Jungle

82
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what battle did the Japanese use kamakazis at?

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The Battle of Leyte Gulf

83
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what happened in Iwo Jima?

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American planes bombed Japanese tunnel hideouts on the small volcanic islands

84
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what was the name of the project that created the first atomic bomb?

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the manhattan project

85
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what was the name of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

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little boy

86
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how many people did “little boy” kill

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around 70,000

87
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who ended up surrendering after the second atomic bomb was dropped?

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Emperor Hirohito

88
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what was the name of the day the peace treaty was signed ending the war entirely?

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V-J day or victory in Japan day

89
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where was the second atomic bomb dropped at?

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Nagasaki

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