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Modern and world history - Cooper
Term | Definition |
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What program was instituted by FDR to bring America out of the Great Depression?* | |
The code name for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France was* | |
Which of the following occurred on D-Day?* | |
Manchuria was invaded in 1931 by* | |
Hitler's main method of achieving Lebensraum (living space) was to* | |
The United States became directly involved in World War 2 after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.* | |
What European fascist leader was known as "Il Duce:* | |
Who was the highest ranking Nazi on trial at the Nuremberg Trials?* | |
The American program to develop an atomic weapon was code named The Manhattan Project.* | |
Who was the lead scientist on the Manhattan Project?* | |
Island hopping was the strategy used by the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor.* | |
Who was the last Czar of Russia?* | |
The Enola Gay is the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Nagasaki.* | |
During World War 2, all of the following countries were part of the Allied Powers EXCEPT* | |
After World War 2, The United States and the Soviet Union lost their reputation as world Superpowers.* | |
Kristallnacht literally means* | real 92.3 |
Italy, Germany, and Spain are all countries who put Fascist Dictators into power after World War 1 ended.* | |
Fascism does NOT embrace which of the following?* | |
The title of Hitler's book Mein Kampf in English is translated best as* | |
Japan's unprovoked attack on Manchuria (China) forced the United States to enter World War 2.* | |
All of the following were members of the Axis powers EXCEPT* | |
Marx and Engels first wrote about communism in what publication?* | |
What group was put on trial at the Nuremberg trials?* | |
Which of the following was a location of a Nazi concentration camp?* | |
Which countries signed a non-aggression pact in 1939?* | |
In 1922, Which fascist leader took control of Italy?* | |
Which of the following groups represented the Communists during the Russian Revolution?* | |
Who ruled The Soviet Union (Russia) after Lenin's death?* | |
Nazism was the German form of* | |
Which battle in the Pacific forced Japan to begin retreating and allowed the Allies to take the offensive?* | |
Adolf Hitler's first attempt to take power in Germany in 1923 resulted in his arrest and conviction for treason.* | |
What two Japanese cities were the targets of the atomic bombs Fatman and Little Boy?* | |
Why were thousands of Japanese-American citizens interred in relocation camps?* | |
The Holocaust was Hitler's attempt to* | |
What leader had pressed the Allies to open a second front on Germany's west side to take pressure off of the Soviets?* | |
Nazism was the German form of* | |
Which of the following nations paid the heaviest cost in terms of human casualties during World War 2?4* | |
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan in 1945.* | |
Which country was invaded by Germany in September 1939, sparking the beginning of World War 2?* | |
The German strategy known as "blitzkreig" literally means* | |
Which countries made up the Axis powers?* | |
Hitler told the world exactly what he would do if he ever gained power in the book "Mein Kampf".* | |
Which of the following occurred on D-Day?* | |
What event marks the beginning of, but did not cause the Great Depression?* | |
Who led the communist revolution in Russia?* |