True-False Questions on World War Two

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1 The Allies were able to deceive the Germans into believing that our real invasion of France would not be where it actually was at Dunkirk but would come farther to the West.
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2 In total, FDR won an unprecedented three elections as president.
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3 At Yalta, FDR and Churchill in effect agreed to Soviet domination of large sections of Eastern Poland.
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4 In the Spanish Civil War, the British and French supported Francisco Franco against the Fascist backed fighters.
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5 In the Battle of Britain, the Germans started by attacking military targets and then changed to attacking civilian targets.
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6 In 1931, the Japanese attacked Manchuria in order to obtain its natural resources. Although the League of Nations and the United States protested, they did nothing to stop the Japanese.
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7 The Anschluss refers to the annexation of Czech territory where many Germans lived.
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8 Hitler believed that the Allies would not come to Poland's aid, and if they did it would be too late.
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9 Radar was instrumental in helping the British fight the Germans in the Battle of Britain.
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10 The United States extended Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union after Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
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11 During the 1930s many in the United States wanted to avoid getting entangled in a European conflict so they passed laws against loaning money to countries that had not yet paid back the money they owed from World War One.
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12 At first many companies did not want to hire women to work, but later there was such a labor shortage due to the war that millions of women went to work in factories.
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13 In the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews successfully rose up against the Germans.
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14 In the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans mounted a counter-offensive against the Allies in Belgium and for a time were able to push the Allies back.
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15 Hitler forced General Rommel to commit suicide because of his involvement in a failed assassination attempt against Hitler.
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16 After the invasion of Normandy on D-Day it took almost a year for the Allies to finally defeat the Germans. After the German surrender it was about three more months before the Japanese surrendered.
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17 The Japanese success in the battle of Okinawa convinced Truman that he had to use the atom bomb on Japan.
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18 The Manhattan Project was the code name for the effort to develop unmanned rockets.
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19 The United States only developed three atom bombs. One was used as a test and the other two were dropped on Japan.
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20 After Japan surrendered, their emperor was dethroned and tried for war crimes.
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