A) with a direct seaborne invasion of Germany.
B) in France.
C) in the Balkans.
D) in the western Mediterranean through Africa.
E) in Norway.
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A) The Lend-Lease Act
B) The Atomic Bomb
C) The Marshall Plan
D) The United Nations
E) The Potsdam declaration
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A) was delayed by German invasions of North Africa and the Balkans.
B) was initially a spectacular success.
C) stalled on the outskirts of Moscow as winter descended and Soviet resistance stiffened.
D) met with strong resistance from a surprisingly strong Soviet military.
E) All of these.
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A) a general conviction that the Jews deserved a homeland after the Holocaust.
B) the blowing up of British headquarters in Jerusalem by Jewish terrorists.
C) consent of the Arab population.
D) withdrawal of the British from Palestine.
E) many European Jews had no place to live and refused to live as a minority in Europe.
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A) The invasion of Japan
B) The fall of China
C) The defeat of the Imperial Japanese navy
D) The dropping of the atomic bomb
E) The fall of the Japanese military government
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A) At first, Marshal Pétain enjoyed widespread support.
B) The Vichy government had a goal to carry out a "national revolution."
C) Jews were protected and given full rights by the Vichy government.
D) After the war, Pétain and other Vichy officials were tried on treason charges
E) The Vichy regime rounded up workers for forced shipment to German factories, hunted down members of the anti-German resistance, and picked up Jews to be sent to the Nazi extermination camps.
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A) decolonization.
B) long-term disarmament.
C) a division of Europe.
D) the cold war.
E) the creation of Israel.
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A) a massive German invasion from occupied France.
B) a two-month German aerial bombardment of Britain.
C) submarine attacks on all British ports.
D) a German and Italian naval campaign against Britain.
E) a British naval attack on German controlled French areas.
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A) disbelief, in part due to the false stories of German atrocities in the First World War.
B) bombing of the rail line into Auschwitz and other death camps.
C) skepticism, because it was known that in some Jewish camps, the inmates were not killed.
D) appeals for concerted action that never came.
E) Roosevelt refused pleas from Jewish leaders, wishing to concentrate on victory instead.
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A) blockaded Berlin in 1948.
B) withdrew from Germany.
C) invaded the Western zones.
D) agreed to stop plundering Germany.
E) created the Federal Republic of Germany in their zone.
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A) Korea
B) China
C) The Soviet Union
D) India
E) Thailand
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A) When everyone recognized his prescient warnings about Germany in the 1930s.
B) In a free election in 1940.
C) As head of a unity government after the fall of Chamberlain.
D) Because of his massive popularity among the British elite.
E) As a result of a coup d'état.
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A) Germany showed a greater ruthlessness in exploiting the more industrialized region of Western Europe.
B) Germany worked quickly to restore prosperity and harmony throughout the continent.
C) Germany sought collaborators in the west but waged a brutal campaign of exploitation and ethnic cleansing in the east.
D) Germany was exclusively concerned with eliminating the Jews.
E) Germany was more concerned with America's Lend Lease aid to the Soviet Union and Britain.
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A) World War II caused 60 million deaths and made another 60 million homeless or refugees.
B) Britain, France, and Italy suffered fewer casualties in 1939-1945 than they did in the First World War.
C) the highest casualty figures were in the Soviet Union, Poland, and Germany.
D) Japanese military casualties were roughly equal to those suffered by the United States.
E) A wave of anti-German feelings developed.
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A) Germany invaded Poland unprovoked.
B) France and Britain declared war but failed to effectively aid Poland.
C) in agreement with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east.
D) the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and Finland fell to Germany and the Soviet Union.
E) All of these.
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A) established communist governments in free elections.
B) restored their prewar governments.
C) were forced to accept communist governments supported by the Soviet Union.
D) were defended against Soviet domination by the West.
E) Yugoslavia and Albania were attacked by the Soviet Union for refusing to become part of the Soviet bloc of nations.
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