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What American general signed the Japanese surrender on Victory over Japan Day?
General Douglas MacArthur was the American general who presented the United States at the Japanese surrender.
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What was the first attempt to stop Saddam Hussein in Iraq?
The Persian Gulf War was the first attempt to stop Saddam Hussein from invading neighboring country Kuwait. It was mainly United States led, with the support of NATO and the UN.
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What famous invasion of the Normandy beaches was led by the Allied Forces during World War II?
D-Day was the military for what became the famous invasion of Normandy, France, by the Allied Powers to attempt to begin the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany. V-Day refers to Victory Day, or the day the Axis powers surrendered to the Allied powers.
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What was the United States' economic plan to help Europe fight against Communist/Soviet Union influences after World War II?
The United States created the Marshall Plan after World War II, as an economic strategy to help European countries be less vulnerable to the Soviet attempts to invade them after World War II.
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What bombing in 1941 led to the United States officially joining the Allies in World War II?
It was the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 against the United States that encouraged the United States to join the Allies in War World II. Up to that point, the United States had only been unofficially supporting the Allied Powers.
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The division of what city was a reflection of the European and world division during the Cold War?
After World War II, during the Cold War, Berlin was split between the Communist and the Free Worlds. It accurately represented the division of the world between communism and free enterprise.
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What country represented the Communist leader during the Cold War era?
The USSR (known today as Russia) was the Communist leader during the Cold War was the world was split between communism and free enterprise ideas.
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Belief in the "domino theory" encouraged US involvement in ongoing conflicts in __________.
The "domino theory" refers to the belief that if one country adopts communism (or "falls" to it), then its neighboring countries will "fall" too. It was used to justify intervening in the fight between Communist North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II led the German empire during which war?
Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last German emperor, and was deposed in 1918 after a 30 year reign.
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Mutually Assured Destruction is a concept most closely linked to which 20th century conflict?
Mutually Assured Destruction refers to the prevalent philosophy during the Cold War that if either the USSR or the USA launched a nuclear attack, the other could retaliate with sufficient speed and power that both would be destroyed. This kept the Cold War from erupting into nuclear conflict.
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In both the Franco-Prussian war and the Russo-Japanese war, machine guns were existent but largely ineffective because they were placed with the artillery, which meant that at the beginning of major battles they were destroyed before they could be used. This gave war planners the false assumption that they were ineffective, which contributed to a huge loss of life when they were finally placed correctly during the ____________.
During World War I, huge losses were incurred by combatants when they sent unarmored soldiers against machine guns.
The Russian Revolution was bloody, but grew out of World War I.
The Chinese Civil War was bloody, but by that time military planners already knew how to deal tactically with machine-guns.
By the time of the Battle of Midway, war planners already knew the effectiveness and danger of machine-guns.
By the time of the Persian Gulf war, war planners were using global positioning systems (GPS) and air strikes, machine-guns were already well understood.
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The Chinese Civil War can be categorized most correctly as __________.
The Chinese Civil War lasted almost half a century, in the middle of which the Japanese invaded.
After the Japanese invasion, many factions within the Chinese civil war joined forces against the invaders, but fighting resumed once the Japanese had been defeated.
Although the Japanese invasion certainly changed the dynamic of China's Civil War, the war began before the Japanese invasion.
Some factions within the Chinese Civil War were anti-communist, while others were supported by Moscow and pro-communist.
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The assassination of which world leader lead to the beginning of World War I?
When Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of the Austria-Hungary Empire visited the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, he was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrillo Princip. As a result, Germany aligned with Austria-Hungary against Serbia (and it's major ally Russia), and soon nations were taking sides and war broke out. This assassination was the spark that ignited the growing nationalist and militaristic tendencies that had been growing throughout the end of the 19th century.
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Trench Warfare, first widely used in WWI, features all of the following except _____________.
Advances in technology led to a completely new style of warfare that came with the turn of the 20th century. While hand to hand combat fell out of style, armies would dig trenches to protect their front lines, which they would defend with Machine guns and heavy artillery. The result were vast stretches of "no man's land" between trenches that were virtually deserted for fear of being gunned down. These mass killing technologies led to significantly higher death rates.
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What concept describes warfare the enlists all of a country's resources including its citizens, media, food supplies, and economy?
WWI brought the concept of Total War to new heights, in this global war the conflict stretched far beyond the military. Factories were re-purposed for the war effort, propaganda was spread, and food was rationed. In many nations conscription was established to recruit more actively for the armed forces.
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The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919 and most largely affected what nation?
The Treaty of Versailles placed almost total blame for WWI on Germany and imposed major punishments on them including: stripping them of domestic and oversees territories, limiting the size of the military, imposing harsh economic sanctions. Resentment born from this treaty would eventually cause Hitler's rise to power and World War II.
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During World War II, what general promised the Philippines that he was not deserting them but that he "would return" to their rescue from the Japanese?
General MacArthur initially evacuated the Philippines upon Japanese invasion during War World II on the Pacific front. He promised them he would return later in the war to deliver them from the Japanese -and he did, regaining the territory from the Japanese in 1944.
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Which of the following was not a way that Americans on the Home Front contributed to the war effort during World War II?
Americans contributed to the war effort in many ways; however, the internet was not available at this time so emails could not be sent to soldiers.
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What event convinced the United States to join the rest of the Allies in War World II?
It was not until the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941 that the United States officially joined World War II. The Allied powers war with Germany begin in late 1939.
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What country was ruled by Mussolini during World War II?
Italy was led by Mussolini during World War II.
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