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  1. Question 1

    What year did World War II begin in Europe?

  2. Question 2

    When did the United States enter World War II?

  3. Question 3

    In what year did World War II end in Europe?

  4. Question 4

    When did World War II end in the Pacific?

  5. Question 5

    What was the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor?

  6. Question 6

    What major event occurred on June 6, 1944?

  7. Question 7

    When did Germany invade Poland, starting WWII?

  8. Question 8

    What year did Germany surrender?

  9. Question 9

    When was the first atomic bomb dropped on Japan?

  10. Question 10

    What date was the second atomic bomb dropped?

  11. Question 11

    Define Blitzkrieg.

  12. Question 12

    What does Appeasement mean in WWII context?

  13. Question 13

    What was the Holocaust?

  14. Question 14

    Define the term 'Allied Powers.'

  15. Question 15

    Define the term 'Axis Powers.'

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  17. Question 16

    What is the Treaty of Versailles?

  18. Question 17

    Who was Adolf Hitler?

  19. Question 18

    Who was Benito Mussolini?

  20. Question 19

    Who was Hideki Tojo?

  21. Question 20

    Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?

  22. Question 21

    Who was Winston Churchill?

  23. Question 22

    Who was Joseph Stalin?

  24. Question 23

    Who was General Dwight D. Eisenhower?

  25. Question 24

    Who was General George Patton?

  26. Question 25

    Who was General Bernard Montgomery?

  27. Question 26

    What was the Battle of Stalingrad?

  28. Question 27

    What was the Battle of Midway?

  29. Question 28

    What was the Battle of Iwo Jima?

  30. Question 29

    Describe the Battle of the Bulge.

  31. Question 30

    What was Operation Barbarossa?

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  33. Question 31

    What was the Desert Campaign?

  34. Question 32

    What were Flying Fortresses?

  35. Question 33

    What was a Spitfire?

  36. Question 34

    What was a Panzer tank?

  37. Question 35

    What was Radar technology used for?

  38. Question 36

    What was the Manhattan Project?

  39. Question 37

    What was the island-hopping strategy?

  40. Question 38

    What did Quisling mean during WWII?

  41. Question 39

    What was the Lend-Lease Act?

  42. Question 40

    What were rationing programs?

  43. Question 41

    What was the Battle of Britain?

  44. Question 42

    What was the Atlantic Charter?

  45. Question 43

    What was the Yalta Conference?

  46. Question 44

    What was the Potsdam Conference?

  47. Question 45

    What were concentration camps?

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  49. Question 46

    What was Auschwitz?

  50. Question 47

    What were Nuremberg Trials?

  51. Question 48

    What did 'Final Solution' refer to?

  52. Question 49

    What was the Sudetenland Crisis?

  53. Question 50

    What was Lebensraum?

  54. Question 51

    When did Italy join the war?

  55. Question 52

    When did Japan surrender?

  56. Question 53

    What was the Munich Agreement?

  57. Question 54

    What was Kristallnacht?

  58. Question 55

    What was the Invasion of France in 1940?

  59. Question 56

    What was Vichy France?

  60. Question 57

    Who was Charles de Gaulle?

  61. Question 58

    What was the Tripartite Pact?

  62. Question 59

    What was the Battle of Coral Sea?

  63. Question 60

    What was Guadalcanal Campaign?

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  65. Question 61

    What was the Battle of Sicily?

  66. Question 62

    What was El Alamein?

  67. Question 63

    What was the North African Campaign?

  68. Question 64

    What was the Italian Campaign?

  69. Question 65

    What was Operation Market Garden?

  70. Question 66

    What was the Bataan Death March?

  71. Question 67

    What was Pearl Harbor attack response?

  72. Question 68

    What was the Burma Campaign?

  73. Question 69

    What was the Fall of Singapore?

  74. Question 70

    What was strategic bombing?

  75. Question 71

    What was the London Blitz?

  76. Question 72

    What were code breakers used for?

  77. Question 73

    What was the U-boat Campaign?

  78. Question 74

    What was the Battle of Atlantic?

  79. Question 75

    What was Operation Overlord?

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  81. Question 76

    What were Mulberry Harbors?

  82. Question 77

    What was the kamikaze tactic?

  83. Question 78

    What was Okinawa battle?

  84. Question 79

    What was rhineland remilitarization?

  85. Question 80

    What was the German-Soviet Pact?

  86. Question 81

    What were the Rosenberg trials?

  87. Question 82

    What was ENIGMA machine?

  88. Question 83

    What was the Holocaust death toll?

  89. Question 84

    What were Jehovah's Witnesses persecuted for?

  90. Question 85

    What was the Home Guard?

  91. Question 86

    What was the Women's Land Army?

  92. Question 87

    What were Rosie the Riveters?

  93. Question 88

    What were Victory Gardens?

  94. Question 89

    What was Japanese American Internment?

  95. Question 90

    What was the Tuskegee Airmen?

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  97. Question 91

    What was the 442nd Regiment?

  98. Question 92

    What was the United Nations established for?

  99. Question 93

    What was the Marshall Plan?

  100. Question 94

    What was the Cold War?

  101. Question 95

    What was the Berlin Blockade?

  102. Question 96

    What was NATO established for?

  103. Question 97

    What was the creation of Israel related to?

  104. Question 98

    What was India's independence from Britain?

  105. Question 99

    What was Operation Unthinkable?

  106. Question 100

    What was the Warsaw Uprising?

  107. Question 101

    What was the Dresden bombing?

  108. Question 102

    What was Dunkirk evacuation?

  109. Question 103

    What were the Atlantic Convoy routes?

  110. Question 104

    What was the Molotov Cocktail?

  111. Question 105

    What was napalm used for?

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  113. Question 106

    What was penicillin in WWII?

  114. Question 107

    What was the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?

  115. Question 108

    What was the Eastern Front?

  116. Question 109

    What was the Western Front?

  117. Question 110

    What was Italian surrender timing?

  118. Question 111

    What was the Burma Road?

  119. Question 112

    What was the Pacific Theater?

  120. Question 113

    What was the European Theater?

  121. Question 114

    What was Soviet cost in WWII?

  122. Question 115

    What global changes resulted from WWII?

  123. Question 116

    What was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

  124. Question 117

    What was Germany divided into zones?

  125. Question 118

    What lasting impact did WWII have?

  126. Question 119

    What was war crimes prosecution established by?

  127. Question 120

    What memorials were built for WWII?

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