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A) his Dachau speech and the two subsequent assassination attempts by the SPD in 1932.
B) the death of President Hindenburg and Hitler's speech at Hindenburg's funeral.
C) the Reichstag fire, Mussolini's "Caesar" speech, and Rommel's endorsement.
D) the crushing of the Kiel Mutiny by the SS.
E) the passage of the Enabling Act by the Reichstag.
G) B) and C)
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A) a steady, methodical armed attack that was aimed at achieving an eventual weakening of an enemy and, finally, surrender.
B) a coordinated sudden attack by land and air forces.
C) never able to achieve its specific military objectives.
D) a series of naval attacks that were aimed at blockading enemy ports.
E) the use of massed artillery fire and poison gas against enemy fortifications.
G) None of the above
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A) a conscript law was passed in 1938.
B) women actively participated in all aspects of the war effort, including combat.
C) Japan suffered few civilian casualties, although its military losses were well into the millions.
D) Japan captured Paris from the Vichy regime.
E) Japan joined the war against Russia in 1941, immediately after Pearl Harbor.
G) A) and C)
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A) was destined, in Nazi plans, to control Western Europe and Africa.
B) needed only the passive tolerance of the German population in order to be established.
C) required the active involvement of the entire German population to achieve its destiny.
D) disliked mass demonstration unless the emotionalism was minimized.
E) would make all women warrior-soldiers, thus doubling Aryan military strength.
G) None of the above
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A) at Stalingrad, Germany lost an army of 300,000.
B) in Siberia, Japanese troops never penetrated more than 500 miles inland from their base in the Pacific port of Vladivostok.
C) German troops continued to push east of the Ural Mountains in early 1944.
D) Indian Gurkha troops played a major role in the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad.
E) over ninety percent of Moscow was flattened during the German bombing raids of late 1944.
G) A) and E)
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A) France.
B) Russia.
C) Africa.
D) the British Empire.
E) the Middle East.
G) A) and B)
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A) Germany's invasion of Siberia.
B) Japan's invasion of Manchuria.
C) the capture of Singapore by the British navy.
D) Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor.
E) the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
G) D) and E)
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Winston Churchill was a British statesman, orator, and author who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during two critical periods in history, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century and was instrumental in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. Churchill was also a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature and is known for his speeches and writings.
The term "iron curtain" is closely associated with Winston Churchill and refers to the political, military, and ideological barrier that separated the Soviet bloc and the Western countries of Europe after World War II. The phrase was popularized by Churchill in a speech he delivered on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, with the famous line: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." This metaphorical curtain symbolized the division between Eastern and Western Europe, which was a central feature of the Cold War. The Eastern side of the iron curtain was dominated by the Soviet Union and its satellite states, which had communist governments and were not freely accessible to the West. The Western side consisted of countries with democratic governments and market economies. The iron curtain represented not just a physical division, but also the stark contrast in ideologies and the lack of communication and exchange between the two sides.
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A) De Gaulle demanded equal industrial reparation payments for all victor nations.
B) Stalin agreed to "free elections" in Eastern Europe.
C) Truman received word of the successful testing of an atomic bomb.
D) Churchill made his "Iron Curtain" speech.
E) the Truman Doctrine was issued.
G) A) and E)
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A) the United States would protect Asia from European exploitation.
B) Japan would play the role of guiding Asia to prosperity and development.
C) the Soviet Union would become the Chinese protector against Japanese aggression.
D) Japanese diplomatic and military relationships with the other nations of Asia would be reduced.
E) the British navy would protect East Asian waters.
G) C) and D)
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A) had originally been called the Labor Party.
B) had 800,000 members by 1932.
C) gave qualified support to communism until 1935.
D) favored collectivization until 1934.
E) made class-based appeals in elections.
G) None of the above
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