Module 19 Quiz U.S. History EHS

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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

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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

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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

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Who won the Battle of Stalingrad?

Japanese Army

Soviet Union

German Army

British Army

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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

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