Question 1
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Who is considered the “father of the atomic bomb”?

Douglas MacArthur
Harry Truman
Herbert Hoover
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Question 2
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Japanese ________ made rapid recovery after World War II.

fighter plane manufacturing
agriculture
military training
all of these answers are correct
Question 3
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Which plan provided help to any country that was under threat of being taken over by communism?
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Emergency Powers Act
Marshall Plan
Question 4
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Which of the following happened on the same day as the Pearl Harbor attack?

Japan attacked the Philippines
All of these answers are correct
Germany defeated the Soviet Union at Stalingrad
Italy attacked Ethiopia
Question 5
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Which battle started with a surprise German offensive campaign on the Western Front?

Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Coral Sea
Question 6
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What is May 8, 1945 (the day Germany surrendered) referred to as?

Mayday
Z-day
V-E Day
D-Day
Question 7
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What were the Nuremberg Laws?

antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany in 1935
an agreement between the U.S. and Germany on the aims for the postwar world
a set of international rules that set out what can and cannot be done during an armed conflict
an agreement between the U.S. and Britain on the aims for the postwar world
Question 8
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Which plan provided aid in the form of food and money to countries in Western Europe whether they were being threatened by communism or not?

Emergency Powers Act
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Question 9
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About ________ Jews were killed in the various death camps and Nazi mass murders.
600,000
4 million
6 million
2 million
Question 10
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Which battle was the first in which aircraft carriers engaged each other but neither sighted nor fired directly upon one another?
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Coral Sea
Question 11
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What is the term for the WWII strategy where an aircraft loaded with explosives made a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target?

kamikaze
leapfrog
vertical envelopment
blitzkrieg
Question 12
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How was Germany divided after World War II?

a Western Zone that would be under the control of the Soviets and a Eastern Zone that would be under the control of China
a Western Zone that would be under the control of the Soviets and a Eastern Zone that would be shared by the United States, Great Britain, and France
an Eastern Zone that would be under the control of the Soviets and a Western Zone that would be shared by the United States, Great Britain, and France
an Eastern Zone that would be under the control of the Soviets and a Western Zone that would be under the control of Great Britain
Question 13
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Each death camp in Poland was equipped with huge gas chambers that could kill as many as ________ people a day.

2,000
4,000
6,000
600,000
Question 14
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Who won the Battle of Stalingrad?

Japanese Army
Soviet Union
German Army
British Army
Question 15
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Which treaty officially ended World War II and ended Japan’s power as an empire?

Quebec Agreement
San Francisco Peace Treaty
Atlantic Charter
Potsdam Agreement