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Question 1 - 10 Upon evacuating the Philippines, who promised “I shall Return”?

Answer 1 – 10 Douglas Mac. Arthur

Question 1 - 20 Who was the Fascist dictator of Italy? After he was killed, his body was hung on a meat hook in the street.

Answer 1 – 20 Benito Mussolini

Question 1 - 30 Who was the militaristic Prime Minister of Japan?

Answer 1 – 30 Hideki Tojo

Question 1 - 40 Name the Battle Stopped the Japanese push east across the Pacific thanks to code breakers breaking the Japanese military code?

Answer 1 – 40 Midway

Question 1 - 50 Name the Battle First time the Japanese used kamikaze attacks (in the Philippines)?

Answer 1 – 50 Leyte Gulf

Question 2 - 10 Name the Battle Bad loss suffered by the American military in North Africa, proving that we had not been ready to invade Europe?

Answer 2 – 10 Kasserine Pass

Question 2 - 20 Name the Battle Germany suffers a major defeat in the snow and cold and goes on the defensive for the first time, eventually being pushed back into Germany?

Answer 2 – 20 Stalingrad

Question 2 - 30 Name the Battle Gave the Allies a close base from which they could launch an invasion into Japan?

Answer 2 – 30 Okinawa

Question 2 - 40 Name the Battle Allies invade Europe and break through Hitler’s Atlantic Wall defenses?

Answer 2 – 40 D-Day

Question 2 - 50 Name the Battle Gave the U. S. an airbase close enough to Japan to effectively bomb the Japanese main islands?

Answer 2 – 50 Iwo Jima

Question 3 - 10 Name the Battle Hitler’s last major offensive in Europe. Trapped members of the 101 st Airborne in Bastogne until Patton’s armored division broke through and rescued them?

Answer 3 – 10 Battle of the Bulge

Question 3 - 20 Name the Battle General Benard “Monty” Montgomery’s big blunder. A failed attempt to parachute into Holland/the Netherlands in order to secure a bridge across the Rhine river into Germany?

Answer 3 – 20 Operation Market Garden

Question 3 - 30 What was the Holocaust? Who was targeted Why? What were the initial steps taken in persecution What was the “final solution” Other atrocities committed

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Question 3 - 40 Why do many people today question whether the United Nations has failed in its original international goals?

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Question 3 - 50 In what year did the modern Jewish nation of Israel begin its existence?

Answer 3 – 50 1948

Question 4 - 10 Immediately following the proclamation of Israel as a new Jewish nation, what happened?

Answer 4 – 10 6 of Israel’s Arab neighbor countries attacked and were defeated.

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