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ss 120

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Under the rule of __, the people of the Congo suffered greatly.
Leopold II
Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
True
The __ instigated the Crimean War (1853-56).
Russians
If not for the "Miracle at Dunkirk", the british expenditionary force and those french that evacuated would have been likely annihilated.
TRUE
__ mediated the peace treaty process after the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.
Theodore Roosevelt
Walter lippman coined the term
Cold War
One of the great reformers of the Ottoman Empire was __, who tried to reform the empire along western European lines. He rules until 1839.
Mahmud II
While there is no agreement on where the Pandemic of 1918 began, some contend that a likely place was
Kansas
During the Spanish Civil War, the leader of the nationalist was __.
Francisco Franco
During the Pandemic of 1918, a vaccine was created that halted its devastation
False
In 1939, Germany invaded __ a year after they had signed the Munich Agreement.
None of the above
Often the influenza of 1918 is dubbed the _________, which was a result of this nation's coverage of the outbreak
Spanish Flu
In 1945, the United States successfully test-detonated its first atomic bomb in
Los Alamos, NM
What was the Anschluss of Austria
The peaceful annexation of Austria to Germany
This English Prime Minister is associated with the Munich Agreement of 1938.
None of the above.
Kristallnacht Pogrom is also know as the Night of Broken Glass
True
On December 7, 1941, the __ attacked Pearl Harbor.
None of the above.
If only partly, the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 who took part in the heinous act of genocide were influenced by the idea of for their fellow soldier.
distrust
During the spring of 1941, hitler launched __, the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Operation Barbarossa
The American President best associated with the early years of the cold war was
Harry Truman
The Use of Machine guns played a role in WWI.
True
The Battle of Britain was a victory for Germany.
False
For years, European war planners concocted various battle plans in the event of hostilities with their neighbors. In the case of Germany, __ designed a plan that would knock France and England Quickly out of the war, which allowed the Germans to focus the entirety of their forces on Russia.
Alfred Graf von Schlieffen
The German Wehrmacht took part in atrocities related to the Holocaust in Yugoslavia.
True
A result of the Treaty of Versailles that ended WWI was that Germany paid reparations to the allied powers. How much were they supposed to pay?
33 billion
The Black Shirts are best associated with Adolf Hitler.
False
During the early years of World War I, entire neighborhoods of Englishmen enlisted together in the English Army, Often, they were called __ battalions.
Pals
was behind "The Schlieffen Plan".
None of these
Mischlinge means
Mixed blood
Franz Ferdinand assassinated Gavrilo Princip, an archduke of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.
False
During the __, the final solutions was implemented.
Wannsee Conference
The Brown Shirts are best associated with benito Mussolini
False
__ headed the Schutzstaffel (SS).
Heinrich Himmler
This European Dictator was once a proud member of the Bersaglieri.
None of these
During the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles (WWI), __, a nationalist from French Indochina (Vietnam) attempted and failed to meet with President Wilson.
Ho Chi Minh
After the Munich Agreement, ____ delcared that he had achieved "Peace in out time."
Neville Chamberlain
Sonderkommando were
Jewish Prisoners used to clean out the (gas) Death Vans
The longstanding communist leader of China was ____
Mao Zedong
Conditions in the trenches of World War I, to put it mildly, were horrid. Which of the following things made life in trenches arduous for its occupants.
All of the Above
On June 24, 1950, ___ invaded South Korea.
None of these
The Einsatzgruppen were
Mobile killing units following the Wehrmacht
in 1949, ___ became a communist nation.
China
The Ottoman Society for Union and Progress were also known as the __
Young Turk
The European Recovery Plan, better known as the ___, aided in rebuilding war-torn Europe.
Marshall Plan
During the Philippine and American War, __ fought for an independent Philippines.
Emilio Aguinaldo
During the Berlin Airlift, the ___ delivered 2.3 million tons of good to East Germans trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
Both A and B. (Us and England)
In 1823, President James Monroe issued the __, which ended further European encroachment in the western hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
_____ penned "The Long Telegram".
George Kennan
__ was most responsible for the acquisition of the Panama Canal.
Theodore Roosevelt
In 1919, ____ joined the German Workers' Party, which later changed its name to the National Socialist German Work's Party (NSDAP). The English called them the Nazis.
Adolf Hitler
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