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What does "Blitzkrieg" mean?
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Lightning War
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What does N.A.Z.I. stand for?
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National Socialist German Workers
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What was Operation Sunflower?
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German plan to send troops to North Africa to help out the Italians
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Who were the Gestapo?
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German secret police
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The Storm Troops were the ________?
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SA
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Who invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939?
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Germany
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What was the Manstein Plan?
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A German attack through the center of the French line
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On D-day, the United States landed troops on what two beaches?
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Utah
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The German plan to invade Greece was called what?
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Operation Mariata
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What was the Nazi-Soviet agreement?
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Germany and Russia agreed that they would not attack one another for 10 years
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Who were the Protective Detachments?
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SS
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Who was the dictator of Russia during WWII?
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Joseph Stalin
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What did the German army take over in 1936?
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Rhineland
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What were Kamikaze planes?
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Japanese suicide planes
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Who was the Prime Minister of Britain?
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Winston Churchill
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What was the alliance between Britain and France which stated that they would come to the aid of Poland?
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Anglo-Polish Alliance
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Who invaded Poland on Sept. 17, 1939?
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Russia
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What does "der Fuhrer" mean?
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the leader
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What city did the United States drop an atomic bomb on in 1945?
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Hiroshima
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What country did not fight on the side of Germany?
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Albania
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Where is Normandy located?
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Northern coast of France
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In the Battle of the Bulge, what army counterattacked the American army?
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German
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What was the most famous of the British fighter planes?
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Hawker Hurricane
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Operation Typhoon was a German attack on whom?
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Moscow
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What was the planned German invasion of Albania called?
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Operation Alpine Violets
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Who was the feared leader of the SD?
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Heydrich
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What was Operation Green?
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German plan to invade Czechoslovakia
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In the Battle of Midway, who did the United States defeat?
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Japanese Navy
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What was the planned German invasion of Poland?
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Operation White
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From the Fall of 1939 to the Spring of 1940, the war in Europe was known as the what?
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Phony War
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Operation Sea Lion was the planned German invasion of what country?
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Britain
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Who was the leader of the SA who was murdered?
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Roehm
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The largest German extermination camp was ____________.
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Aushwitz
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What was the German attack on the Russian city of Moscow?
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Operation Typhoon
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The SD was the __________ _________ of the SS.
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Security Service
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What small island did the United States Marines capture in 1945?
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Iwo Jima
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What were the 3 Russian cities that the Germans wanted to capture?
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Leningrad
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Who was the Italian dictator during WWII?
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Mussolini
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The British Army escaped from ________ in 1940?
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Dunkirk
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Who did Japan launch a full scale invasion of in 1937?
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China
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What country won the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Russia
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Who invaded Manchuria in 1931?
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Japan
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What was the German plan to destroy the British air force?
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Operation Eagle
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What was the failed British plan to capture the bridges in Holland?
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Operation Market Garden
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What was the hooked cross on the Nazi flag called?
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swastika
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