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| What territories did Japan invade in 1931 and 1937? |
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| What country did the Italians invade in 1935? What did the League of Nations impose as a result of this invasion? |
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| Ethiopia, economic sanctions |
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| What country experienced a civil war in which other nations took part in shaping the outcome? |
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| Where did European leaders meet in 1938 to settle the question of the Sudetenland? To what country did the Sudeteland belong? |
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| Neville Camberlain and Edouard Daladier met where....., Czechoslovakia |
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| With what country did Hitler sign a nonaggression pact prior to his invasion of Poland? |
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| The German invasion of what country led to the official beginning of World War II? When did this invasion begin? |
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| Poland, September 1, 1939 |
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| At what port city were more than 350,000 Allied soldiers rescued from almost certain destruction? |
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| What prime minister of Great Britain encouraged the British people never to surrender despite the gloomy prospects? |
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| What people whose systematic extermination he ordered did Hitler label as "culture destroyers"? |
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| Give the month, day, and year for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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| Who were the "Big Three" Allied leaders who met at Teheran in 1943? Where did these leaders decide to invade Europe to get a foothold on the Continent? |
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| Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, Normandy, France |
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| Who was the Aliied leader of the Normandy Invasion? Give to date for D-day. |
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| General Dwight Eisenhower, June 6, 1944 |
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| What strategy did American forces employ as they began to recapture strategic Japanesehelb islands in the Pacific? |
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| What new weapon did the U.S. use against two Japanese cities in August of 1945? |
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| On what ship and on what day did the Japanese sign the surrender documents ending the war in the Pacific? |
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| USS Missouri, September 2, 1945 |
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