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“A date which will live infamy” was President Rooselts description of the

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Bombing of Peral Harboer by Japan

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By signing the Nazi Soviet pact Hiltier hoped

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to have the help of the Soviets in order to invade

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How did Kristallnacht demositrate presecution of the Jews

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Nazi troops attacked Jewish homes, synagogues and businesses

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President Tryman main dceision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan was influenced by allof the following reasons expect the

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Lend Lease Acts

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Poster girl

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the role of woman in the workforce in the United States

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hOW DID HILTER GAIN SUPPORT FOR HIS RACIST IDEAS AGAISNT JEWS

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Hilter idenfied as an inferior people
Hilter blamed Kews for Germanys defeat in World War I and ecomic Problem

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Which of the following is not oen of the events which led up to the Holocuast

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Liberation or freedom from conceration camps

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Which nation listed in the chart suffered the greatest human cost?

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USSR

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How does US spending on the war compare with that of other countries

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The US spent more than all the other nations on the war

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What does the policy of isolationism emphaize

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The belief that policital ties to other countries should be avioded

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He was an atheist and a socialist leader and his system promoted the most equality for women

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Joseph Stalin

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H esymbol of state power in Jpaan during WW2

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Emperor Hirohito

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He indtrinated children with anti semitism

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Adolf Hitler

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He was a fascist leader who believed in the corporate state for Italy

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E.Benito Mussolini

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He was a general who became Prime minster of Japan during WW2

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Hideki Tojo

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Why did Japan Invade China

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Manchuria was rich in orin and coal

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The main reason that the Soviet Union became an ally of Britian and the United State was because the Soviet Union

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was attacked by germany in spite of their 10 year Non aggression Pact

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What did the Allies stragety of Island hopping in the Pacific involve

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attakc only on islandsthat wre japense strongholds

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What is the definition of Tascism

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A mifiant politcail movmenet that empazised loyaitly to the state and obedience to the leader

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Led Allied invasion of Europe/ D-Day abd later became US President

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Dwight D Eisen Hower

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British Prime Misnter known for hisnpolicy of appeasement

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Neville Chamberlain

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Led Great britian as Prime Minsiter duirng most of World War 2

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Winston Churchill

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Supreme commander of Allied war affort in the Pacific

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Douglas MAC aRUTHER

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dECALRED WAR ON Japan after the attack on Peral Habor

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Franklin D roosaevelt

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What contry did the Allies indave on D-DAY

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France

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How did the league of Nationa respond when Hitler pleaded to undo the Versaillies Treay

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They issued a mild condemnation and expressed disapproval of his actions

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What was the goal of hilter “Final SOlution”

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It was gencoide of people Hitler consdieredinfrieior

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Although offically neutral the united states increaly helped Britian Throught actions like

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Lend lease act

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Whta was the manthatton Project

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the plan to develop the atomic bomb

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How did adolf hitler become chancellor of germanay

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By bla,img the Reinctag fire on the communist party

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Hatred of Jews

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Anti Semitism

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Living space for the croweded german Aryana Eastern Europeans and Russia

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Lebruraum

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Plicy of giving in to an aggresoor in the hopes of keeping peace

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Appeasement

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The systemamtic killing of a people, usually by a givernemnt

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Genocide

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