| What was the event that caused the Nationalist Chinese (GMD) and the Chinese communists (CCP) to unite to resist Japan? | Xian Incident Tanggu Truce Japanese assault on Shanghai Japanese invasion of Mongolia |
| What was the territory Hitler wanted from Czechoslovakia? | Sudetenland Austrian province Polish Corridor Reichland |
| From which port were British and French forces evacuated from France to England? | Dunkirk Marseilles Brest Calais |
| What was the German invasion of the Soviet Union called? | Operation Barbarossa Operation Eastern Blitz Operation Lebensraum Operation Siegfried |
| Where did the first summit meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill take place? | Newfoundland Washington, DC London Bermuda |
| The U.S. military plan for war, called Plan D, laid out what strategy? | Europe First hold the line take Tokyo save Russia |
| The first U.S. action against Axis forces in the European theater _____. | took place in North Africa was the invasion of Sardinia liberated Norway was the invasion of Spain |
| What was Japan’s name for its empire? | The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Liberated Asia The New Asia The Unification of the Eight Corners |
| What was the German military unit that followed advancing armies into eastern Europe and began eliminating enemies and Jewish people? | Einsatzgruppen Sturmabteilung Gnadegruppen Grausamkeitzug |
| What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific? | the Battle of Midway the attack on Pearl Harbor the Battle of Guadalcanal the fighting in the Philippines |
| What was significant about the Battle of Stalingrad? | It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and was the turning point of the war in Europe. It constituted a major victory for the United States and encouraged the public to support the war. It resulted in the loss of most of Britain’s Mediterranean fleet. It convinced Britain and the United States to invade Europe and relieve pressure on the Soviet Union. |
| British and American women were enlisted for agricultural work during the war as part of each nation’s _____. | Women’s Land Army Women’s Vegetable Corps Feminine Farmers Ladies Land Workers |
| Hitler issued orders to deal severely with partisan resistance in his _____. | Night and Fog Decree Strike Hard Directive Merciless Message Kill All Command |
| Who was the scientist mainly responsible for building the Enigma decoding machine? | Alan Turing Charles Drew Albert Einstein Robert J. Oppenheimer |
| Who was the Japanese American internee who fought the constitutionality of internment during the war and had his conviction overturned thirty years later? | Fred Korematsu Ishita Edwards Ishii Shiro Hayashi Tadao |
| What was the Manhattan Project focused on? | the building of an atomic weapon anti-submarine weapons the occupation of postwar Germany the inclusion of radar in all airplanes |
| The Germans made one final attempt to defeat the Western Allies in Europe in what battle? | Battle of the Bulge The December Duel The Forest Fight Battle of Verdun |
| What did the Yalta Agreement reaffirm Stalin’s commitment to do? | enter the war against Japan three months after the defeat of Germany peacefully disarm the Red Army after the war cooperate in the joint occupation of eastern European countries return to Finland the land it had seized |
| What did the Japanese strategy of shukketsu seek to do? | bleed the U.S. forces to dishearten them through casualties outmaneuver Allied forces in quick movements punch holes in U.S. defenses and surround U.S. units let U.S. forces pass through Japanese lines and then attack them from the rear |
| What was the forced repatriation of Soviet citizens liberated from German captivity by Allied forces called? | Operation Keelhaul Operation Giveback Operation Boomerang Operation Homeward Bound |
| What were the three goals of the U.S. occupation of Japan? | demilitarization, democratization, recognition of human rights pacification, liberalization, modernization decentralization, deindustrialization, depopulation republicanism, restitution, retribution |
