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| What left many countries like Italy, Germany, and Japan feeling betrayed? | Treaty of Versallies
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| What did many European countries turn to due to Europes economic depression and the peoples belief that their democratic governments were too weak? | dictators
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| Who was the director of the Soviet Union? | Josef Stalin
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| What is a state where a dictator has control over all aspects of life? | Totalitarian
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| Who was the dictator of Italy? | Benito Mussolini
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| What type of state is a system based on militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to its leader? | Fascist
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| What was NAZI party short for? | National Socialist German Workers Party
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| What group did Hitler blame Germany's loss in WW1 on? | Jews
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| What countries democratic government was being pressured by its military leaders to invade nearby countries for needed space and raw materials? | Japan
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| What was Britain and France meeting with Hitler in Munich and meeting his demands to stay out of war an example of? | Appeasement
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| What type of policy did Americans return to after WWI by trying to avoid getting involved in aggression across the world? | isolationism
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| What did the US Congress pass to keep us out of war by forbidding the President from working with countries that are at war? | Neutrality Act
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| What did Hitler and Stalin sign agreeing to not attack each other? | nonaggression pact
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| What event caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany? | Invasion of Poland
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| Which of the allied powers was easily conquered by Hitler in only 6 weeks? | France
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| What event forced Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin to become unwilling allies? | Invasion of the Soviet Union
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| What supported the British by allowing them to obtain American war goods without having to pay for them directly? | Land and Lease Act
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| What did Roosevelt and Churchill sign in order to show their alliance to the world? | Atlantic Charter
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| What event caused the United States to declare war on Japan | Attack on Pearl Harbor
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| What alliance was made of Italy, Germany, and Japan? | Axis Powers
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| What alliance was made up of Britain, France, America, The Soviet Union, and China? | Allied Powers
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| What continent did US troops see their first group action? | Africa
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| Who was the US General in charge of the US troops in the Phillipines? | General Douglas MacArthur
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| What horrible event followed the defeat of the Us troops and Filipino troops defeat in the Philipines? | The Batan Death March
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| What two battles in the Pacific allowed the US to stop Japan from invading surrounding island countries> | Coral Sea and Midway
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| What Japanese internment camp was Kenji and his family imprisoned in? | Manzanar
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| What Japanese word was used to describe an American born Japanese American? | Nisei
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| What event knocked Mussolini out of power? | Invasion of Italy
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| What event took place on June 6th 1944? | D-Day
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| What was the code name for the invasion of Europe? | Operation Overlord
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| What was the code name given rhe sea born invasion of the beaches of Normandy? | Operation Neptune
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| What five Norman beaches were targeted and invaded during the invasion of Normandy? | Sword, Utah, Gold, Omaha, and juno
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| During what battle did the German army regroup for one final offensive against the Allies? | Battle of the Bulge
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| What evenjt led to the suicide of Hitler and the surrender of Germany? | Invasion of Germany
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| What day/event took place on May 8th 1945 and made the end of the was in Europe official? | V-eDay
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| What Allied strategy involved invading Japan controlled islands in order to build a path to invade Japan? | Island Hopping
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| Who willing committed suicide by crashing their planes intp US targets? | Kamikaze Pilots
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| What event led to the surrender of Japan? | Atomic Bomb
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| What event /day took place on August 14th 1945 and made the end of WWII official? | V-Jday
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| What was Hitlers plan to exterminate all European Jews called? | Final Solution
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| How many Jews were estimated to have been killed in the Holocaust? | 6 million
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| What are wartime acts cruelty and brutality that are judged to be beyond the accepted rules of war and human behavior? | War crimes
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