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World War II Ch. 16
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- Q1
What were the names of the laws that targeted Jews in Germany beginning in 1935?
The Hitlerite Code�
Mein Kampf
The Nuremberg Laws
The Semite Laws�
30s - Q2
Where did Stalin want the Allies to open up a second front?
France
Italy�
North Africa�
Russia
30s - Q3
What was the Blitzkrieg?
The codename for the invasion of North Africa�
Germany's� strategy of using armor, aircraft and infantry to overwhelm its enemies
The Special of the day at Waffle House
The Soviet's method of breaking the German code
30s - Q4
Where did the trials for the Nazi war crimes take place?
Berlin, Germany�
Washington, D.C.�
Munich, Germany�
Nuremberg, Germany
30s - Q5
The Japanese attack on which American base caused Roosevelt to ask for a declaration of war?
Manila�
San Diego�
Midway�
Pearl Harbor�
30s - Q6
What did Lt. Colonel James Doolittle do in 1942?
Led a squadron of US bombers and bombed the city of Tokyo
Was the first pilot to� fly into battle from an aircraft carrier
Was the pilot of the plane that dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima�
Led the U.S. troops in their losing campaign at Corregidor�
30s - Q7
What crimes were the Nazi's charged with?
stealing works of art from the Louvre in Paris and Trespassing in Denmark
Loitering in Poland and exceeding the speed limit with the Blitzkrieg�
Jaywalking in Paris and making rude noises on the radio�
waging aggressive war and crimes against humanity
30s - Q8
What was the phony war?
The war in North Africa before the Italians invade Egypt
The period of inaction in the United States from 1939-41
The period of inaction in Europe after the invasion of Poland in late 1939
The War in the Pacific after Pearl Harbor but before Midway
30s - Q9
What was Operation Torch?
The German Invasion of the Soviet Union�
The Allied Invasion of Normandy France
The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria�
The Allied Invasion of North Africa�
30s - Q10
What were the Ghetto's�
The name of the areas of Europe that had been annexed by the Nazi's
The nickname given to the Japanese Empire�
The large multifamily farms that Stalin used as collectives
areas of Eastern European cities where Nazi's forced Jews to live in�
30s - Q11
Losing which battle in Russia put the Germans on the defensive for the remainder of the war?
Leningrad
Trotsky City�
Stalingrad
Moscow�
30s - Q12
What happened at Dunkirk in May of 1940?
Charles Degaulle Goes into exile
Hitler annexes Belgium and the Netherlands
Allied troops were surrounded by the German army until rescued by the British ships
Hitler makes a counterattack to break the supply lines of the British and American armies
30s - Q13
What process left Japan with only a small police force after the war?
Demilitarization�
Demolition�
Denazification�
Democratization�
30s - Q14
What did the emperor of Japan have to do after the war?
Serve time in prison for war crimes�
write I will not allow militarists to take over my country 500 times
Abdicate the throne�
Admit he was not divine�
30s - Q15
In which Pacific battle were carrier launched planes the only weapons used in a naval battle for the first time?
Coral Sea�
Iwo Jima�
Guadalcanal�
Pearl Harbor
30s