What was the turning point in the Pacific War?
A) the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
B) the Battle of Midway
C) the firebombing of Tokyo
D) the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Which Soviet city first stalled the Nazi advance?
A) Moscow
B) Stalingrad
C) Leningrad
D) Kiev
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Who was the British Prime Minister at the Munich Conference?
A) Winston Churchill
B) David Lloyd George
C) Stanley Baldwin
D) Neville Chamberlain
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The Germans treated western Europeans under occupation better than eastern Europeans because the ________.
A) western Europeans outnumbered the German soldiers
B) Germans considered many western European peoples to be of Germanic stock.
C) eastern Europeans were poor laborers
D) western Europeans collaborated more readily with the Germans
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The United States entered World War II as a result of the ________.
A) German attack on the Soviet Union
B) Battle of Britain
C) Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
D) Nazi invasion of France
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The Vichy regime ________.
A) was a French resistance government created after the Nazi invasion of France
B) was a Nazi puppet government set up in southern France
C) joined the British against the Nazis in 1942
D) was led by the World War I hero, Pierre Laval
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Lend-Lease was a means of ________.
A) maintaining neutrality and yet supporting the Allies
B) staying out of World War II
C) pacifying Senate opposition to neutrality
D) gradually mobilizing
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The German policy of collective retribution _______.
A) made the cost of resistance too high for most Europeans
B) was ultimately unsuccessful
C) was used mostly in western Europe
D) is the same as the Holocaust
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The Nazis experienced massive casualties under General von Paulus________.
A) as a result of the Battle of Stalingrad
B) as a result of the invasion of France
C) at the Battle of El Alamein
D) in Greece
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Following World War II, who came to power in Yugoslavia?
A) Josip Broz (Tito)
B) Imre Nagy
C) Wladyslaw Gomulka
D) Nicolae Ceau?escu
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