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Chapter 26 quiz
World War II
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Undergraduate 1
05/17/2011

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Which of the following countries did not experience fascist or semi-fascist regimes in the 1930s?
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Czechoslovakia
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The policy of appeasement was based on all of the following assumptions except?
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Germany would not break the provisions of Versailles
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Following the naval evacuation of British and French troops at Dunkirk, Germans invaded:
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France
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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for:
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the German invasion of the Soviet Union
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Josip Broz, or Tito, was a:
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communist leader of the Yugoslav resistance movement
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The major turning point in the progress of the Holocaust was:
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the invasion of the Soviet Union
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As the war progressed, which country used its workers and materials less efficiently?
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Germany
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Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier, and Hitler met at Munich on September 29, 1938 in order to:
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decide the fate of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
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The character of the war on the Eastern Front changed because:
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all of the above
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The German counterattack at the Battle of the Bulge:
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took place after the Normandy invasion
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In January 1943, the Soviets defeated the German army at the battle of:
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Stalingrad
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The French government that collaborated with the Nazis was located at:
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Vichy
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The Einsatzgruppen:
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were Nazi death squads
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On June 6, 1944,
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the Allies landed at Normandy
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In 1937, the Japanese:
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destroyed the strategic city of Nanking
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Which Japanese island fell to American forces after eighty-two days of desperate fighting in June 1945?
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Okinawa
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The German word Blitzkrieg:
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refers to the "lightning war" waged against Poland.
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Which German city suffered a devastating toll after being firebombed by the United States and Britain?
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Dresden
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The largest Jewish resistance to the Nazis came in the Spring of 1943 at:
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the Warsaw ghetto
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World War II began on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of:
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Poland
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The first midair detonation of an atomic bomb took place in the summer of 1945 at:
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Los Alamos
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The Soviet Union entered the Pacific Theater of World War II by:
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marching into the colonial territory of Korea
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The First step Hitler took to build the Third German Reich was:
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the reoccupation of the Rhineland
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On June 22, 1940,
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France surrendered to the Germans
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In April, 1937, German dive bombers utterly destroyed the Spanish city of:
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Guernica
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