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13 Cards in this Set
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Besides the Jews, what ethnic group suffered the worst losses, proportionally, as a result of Germany's Final Solution?
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Roma (Gypsies)
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What did France erroneously trust to keep it safe from German Invasion?
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the Maginot Line
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What city experienced the worst siege not just of World War II, but the entire modern era?
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Leningrad
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What was the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere?
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the name given by the Japanese to the Asian empire they conquered before and during World War II
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If the Axis Powers had won World War II, which of the following Allied operations would they most likely have punished as a war crime?
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British and U.S. strategic bombing of German and Japanese cities
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
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Truman's commitment to lend aid to countries threatened by communist takeover
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Many technological innovations stemmed from World War II, including
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nylon, atomic energy, computer science, radar
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The Marshall Plan
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gave Western Europe billions of dollars to rebuild after World War II
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The Lend-Lease program
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committed the United States to the economic support of Great Britain and the Soviet Union during World War II
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The most compelling cause of European decolonization after World War II was that
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European States were too weak to resist Asian and African peoples' demands for national self-determination
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What is true about the rise of the Nazis to political power in Germany?
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voters abandoned moderate parties in the elections of the early 1930s
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Italian fascism as an ideology
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argued for the superiority of the state over the individual
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In the Germany and Italy, fascists came to power because
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their leaders were appointed to high office by legitimate authorities
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