Question 1

Benito Mussolini

Accepted Answer

Benito Mussolini was an Italian political leader who became the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945. Originally a revolutionary socialist and a newspaper journalist and editor, he forged Italy's violent paramilitary fascist movement in 1919 and declared himself prime minister in 1922.

Question 2

Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany's Nazi Party, was one of the most powerful and notorious dictators of the 20th century. Hitler capitalized on economic woes, popular discontent and political infighting to take absolute power in Germany beginning in 1933.

Question 3

Joseph Stalin

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Joseph  Stalin was a Soviet politician, political theorist and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

Question 4

Hideki Tojo

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Hideki Tojo was a Japanese politician, general of the Imperial Japanese Army, and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for most of World War II.

Question 5

Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill was an inspirational statesman, writer, orator and leader who led Britain to victory in the Second World War. He served as Conservative Prime Minister twice - from 1940 to 1945 (before being defeated in the 1945 general election by the Labour leader Clement Attlee) and from 1951 to 1955.

Question 6

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Roosevelt supervised the mobilization of the American economy to support the war effort and implemented a Europe first strategy. He also initiated the development of the world's first atomic bomb and worked with the other Allied leaders to lay the groundwork for the United Nations and other post-war institutions.

Question 7

Harry Truman

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Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. He grew up in Independence, and for 12 years prospered as a Missouri farmer. He went to France during World War I as a captain in the Field Artillery. Returning, he married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, and opened a haberdashery in Kansas City.

Question 8

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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After the war ended in Europe, he served as Military Governor of the American-occupied zone of Germany (1945), Army Chief of Staff (1945–1948), president of Columbia University (1948–1953), and as the first Supreme Commander of NATO (1951–1952).

Question 9

Rosie the Riveter

Accepted Answer

Rosie the Riveter came to be a symbol of all women working in the war industries during World War II. After the release of the song inspired by Rosalind, the image of Rosie the Riveter became further cemented in the public imagination in large part due to the circulation of illustrations and propaganda.

Question 10

Nazi party

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The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party, was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party, existed from 1919 to 1920.

Question 11

Axis powers

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Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Question 12

Allied powers

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Great Britain, France until Germany invaded, The Soviet Union after 1941, The U.S. after 1941, China, and many more countries.

Question 13

Attack on Pearl Harbor

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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

Question 14

D - Day

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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. western front, and Russian forces on the eastern front, led to the defeat of German Nazi forces. On May 7, 1945, German General Alfred Jodl signed an unconditional surrender at Reims, France.

Question 15

Japanese American internment

Accepted Answer

Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps.

Question 16

Yalta conference

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The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The trio met in February 1945 in the resort city of Yalta, located along the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula.

Question 17

Battle of Midway

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The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place from 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Question 18

Lend-Lease Act

Accepted Answer

Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."

Question 19

War Production Board

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During World War II the War Production Board (WPB) was granted supreme authority to direct procurement of materials and industrial production programs. Established by Executive Order 9024 on January 16, 1942, the WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board as well as the Office of Production Management.

Question 20

rationing

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Control of how much of something is available to each individual in a group.

Question 21

Fascism

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A form of totalitarianism that emphasizes nationalism and conformity.

Question 22

appeasement

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Compromise; giving something up in order to maintain peace.

Question 23

island hopping

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Skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance.

Question 24

Reasons why Truman used  and impact of the Atomic Bombs

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Truman did not seek to destroy Japanese culture or people; the goal was to destroy Japan's ability to make war. So, on the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the world's first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima.

Question 25

Differences between the United Nations and the League of Nations

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Among the major differences are the rule of unanimity at the League of Nations versus the rule of the majority at the UN or the UN Security Council's competence to take binding decisions under certain circumstances.

Question 26

War propaganda and its impact

Accepted Answer

Propaganda in wartime must seek to demoralize enemy morale. A primary objective of propaganda aimed at enemy nations is to break down their will to fight. It seeks to lower the enemy's will to resist and it does this in several ways. One is to picture the military successes on the propagandist's side.

Question 27

Reasons why the U.S. created Japanese internment camps and their impact

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. In an effort to curb potential Japanese espionage, Executive Order 9066 approved the relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps. At first, the relocations were completed on a voluntary basis.

Question 28

Reasons why Germany created Concentration camps and their impact

Accepted Answer

From its rise to power in 1933, the Nazi regime built a series of incarceration sites to imprison and eliminate real and perceived "enemies of the state." Most prisoners in the early concentration camps were political prisoners—German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats and persons accused of "asocial" or socially deviant behavior. Many of these sites were called concentration camps.

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