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Which event officially started WWII?
a) Germany invaded Poland
b) Germany formed an alliance with Italy and Japan
c) Adolf Hitler became the dictator of Germany
d) Germany invaded Austria and Czecholsovakia

Why did the U.S. enter WWII?
a) Germany bombed Great Britain.
b) Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
c) Germany took over much of Western Europe
d) Japan took over much of China and Southeast Asia

Who were the Axis Powers during WWII?
a) U.S., Great Britain, and France
b) U.S., Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union
c) Germany, Italy and Japan
d) Germany, Italy, Japan and the Soviet Union

Which of the following does not describe the role of women during WWII?
a) Pilots
b) Factory Workers
c) Soldiers
d) Mechanics

Leader of the US during WWII
a) Adolf Hitler
b) Franklin D. Roosevelt
c) Joseph Stalin
d) Emperor Hirohito

Most Americans did not want to get involved in the problems of Europe because they were ____
a) Nationalists
b) Isolationists
c) Communists
d) Senators

How did the use of atomic bombs impact the outcome of WWII?
a) Germany was forced to surrender
b) Germany was force to retreat from Western Europe
c) Japan was forced to surrender
d) Japan was forced to retreat from the Pacific Islands

What was the Manhattan Project?
a) the world's first computer
b) a complicated code machine used by the German military
c) The effort by the U.S. to build an atomic bomb
d) Radio beams used to determine the location of objects

Where did the largest land to water invasion in world history take place?
a) HIroshima, Japan
b) Nagasaki, Japan
c) Berlin, Germany
d) Normandy, France

What were concentration camps?
a) places where Jews and others were imprisoned and murdered
b) Ghettos in which many Jews were forced to live
c) places where Japanese Americans were relocated
d) secret hiding places where people hid from the Nais

Who were the major Allied powers during WWII?
a) US, Great Britain and France
b) US, Great Britain, France and Soviet Union
c) Germany, Italy, and Japan
d) Germany, Italy, Japan and the Soviet Union

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