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The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the rape of |
| | A) | Beijing. |
| | B) | Shanghai. |
| | C) | Hong Kong. |
| | D) | Nanjing. |
| | E) | Manchukuo. |
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The Tripartite Pact brought together |
| | A) | England, France, and the Soviet Union. |
| | B) | China, England, and the United States. |
| | C) | Germany, Italy, and Japan. |
| | D) | England, the Soviet Union, and the United States. |
| | E) | Germany, Italy, and Austria. |
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Chinese resistance to the Japanese was |
| | A) | a well-coordinated guerilla movement. |
| | B) | weakened by rivalry between Chinese nationalists and communists. |
| | C) | effectively crushed by the brutality of Japanese occupation. |
| | D) | armed by the Soviet Union. |
| | E) | powerful, overwhelming, and extraordinarily effective. |
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As evidence of the renewed power and glory of Italy, Mussolini |
| | A) | annexed Albania. |
| | B) | annexed Libya. |
| | C) | invaded Ethiopia. |
| | D) | supported militarists in the Spanish Civil War. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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In 1938 Germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss? |
| | A) | the Rhineland. |
| | B) | Poland. |
| | C) | France. |
| | D) | Austria. |
| | E) | Czechoslovakia. |
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At the Munich Conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain |
| | A) | took a hard line with Hitler, threatening military retaliation for any further aggression. |
| | B) | agreed that Hitler could keep lands already taken in exchange for a pledge to end German expansion. |
| | C) | agreed that the Treaty of Versailles had been unfair to the Germans and that their former empire should be restored. |
| | D) | created the regional Allied defense against Hitler's aggression. |
| | E) | made a secret alliance with the Axis powers. |
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The Russian-German Treaty of Non-Aggression of 1939 |
| | A) | conceded German control over eastern Europe. |
| | B) | conceded Soviet control over eastern Europe. |
| | C) | freed Hitler to pursue a more aggressive policy in western Europe. |
| | D) | pledged Soviet support to Germany in case of war. |
| | E) | brokered critical trade agreements between the two countries. |
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The German Blitzkrieg referred to |
| | A) | an elaborate series of concrete bunkers built on the experiences of World War I. |
| | B) | the Nazi plan for a Final Solution to the Jewish question. |
| | C) | the living space in the east that was necessary for an expanding Germany. |
| | D) | a lightning war. |
| | E) | the German representative assembly that voted Hitler into power. |
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Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was code for |
| | A) | the German invasion of France. |
| | B) | the German invasion of North Africa. |
| | C) | the German invasion of the Soviet Union. |
| | D) | the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| | E) | the Allied invasion of Normandy. |
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All of the following were essential to the Soviet defense against the Nazis except |
| | A) | Allied support through the lend-lease program. |
| | B) | German overconfidence of a swift victory, which left them trapped far inside Russia when winter came. |
| | C) | the rapid relocation of Soviet industry to the east. |
| | D) | outrage at the German treatment of Jewish minorities in eastern Europe. |
| | E) | the willingness of the Russian people to fight the "Great Patriotic War". |
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Immediate provocation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was |
| | A) | the internment of Japanese citizens living in the United States. |
| | B) | an American-led oil embargo against Japan. |
| | C) | resentment over the unequal treaties imposed on Japan in the nineteenth century. |
| | D) | resentment that Japan has not gotten more of the territorial "spoils" at the Paris peace settlements after World War I. |
| | E) | fears of an American attack on the Japanese homeland. |
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The key to Allied victory in Europe was |
| | A) | the success of resistance movements at undermining German authority. |
| | B) | the vast personnel and industrial capacity of the United States and Soviet Union. |
| | C) | the lack of commitment of Italian forces to the Axis cause. |
| | D) | the development of the atomic bomb. |
| | E) | the leadership of Harry Truman after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
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A key factor in the Allied victory in the Pacific was |
| | A) | the island-hopping strategy that positioned U.S. troops within striking range of Japan. |
| | B) | massive aerial bombing of key Japanese cities. |
| | C) | the development of the atomic bomb. |
| | D) | the declaration of war by the Soviet government against Japan. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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At the height of their expansion, the Japanese had established either direct or indirect control over all of the following except |
| | A) | Dutch East Indies. |
| | B) | Indochina. |
| | C) | Philippines. |
| | D) | Singapore. |
| | E) | Thailand. |
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The Japanese finally surrendered in 1945 |
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