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What is Hitler?
He served as dictator of Germany during World War II.
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What is Pearl Harbor?
This event caused the United States to get involved in World War II.
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What is Rosie the Riveter?
The female icon that represented women workers in World War II.
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What is the Jews?
The primary group that fell victim to Nazi Germany's hatred during World II.
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What is Iwo Jima?
U.S. Marines raised the American flag at Mount Suribachi at this island. It became a famous photo by Joseph Rosenthal.
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What is Italy?
Benito Mussolini was dictator of this country.
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What is Germany, Japan, and Italy?
Name the Axis powers in World War II.
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What is the Manhattan Project? (atomic bomb)
J. Robert Oppenheimer oversaw and led this project in America.
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What is concentration camps?
These were labor camps to hold what Hitler termed enemies of the state.
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What is the United Nations?
Fifty nations became members of this organization following WW ll.
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What is the Red Army?
Josef Stalin's army went by this name.
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What is Poland?
France and Great Britain declared war on Germany when Germany invaded this country.
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What gave the armed forces the power to establish military zones and to force people of Japanese heritage to move from these zones to internment camps?
Executive Order 9066 did this.
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What is ghettos?
These were neighborhoods in a city to which the Jews were confined.
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What is
June 6, 1944 is known as D-Day or Operation Overlord. It was a campaign to liberate this country.
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What is Fascism?
Mussolini established this system of government in Italy that stressed the glory of the state.
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What is Cash-and-Carry?
Under this policy, countries at war were allowed to purchase American goods as long as they paid cash and picked up their orders in American ports.
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What is no official can require a standard belief in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion? (Jehovah Witnesses were not required to pledge to the flag.)
The court ruling in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette.
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What is 1942?
The year that Americans first got proof of Hitler's Final Solution.
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What is the Enola Gay?
The B-29 bomber that delivered the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.
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What is Francisco Franco?
He served as dictator of Spain during World War II.
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What is the Atlantic Charter?
This agreement proclaimed the shared goals of the United States and Britain in opposing Hitler and his allies.
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What is the War Production Board?
This organization placed limits on clothing manufactures in order to ensure a plentiful supply of fabrics.
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What is War Refugee Board?
The organization that took all measures to rescue victims of the enemy oppression. The organization rescued 200,000 Jews.
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What is the dividing of Germany and Berlin into four sectors controlled by each of the Allied forces?
The most important decision made at the Yalta Conference.
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