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True-False Questions

Which statements below are true and which are false?

This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1.
The scale of the destruction wrought by World War Two included at least 55 million deaths.

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Question 2.
As political and economic events took turns for the worst in Germany, Adolf Hitler won support for his party by blaming Jews for Germany's problems.

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Question 3.
When civil war erupted in Spain, Hitler and Mussolini were quick to extend aid to the republican government.

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Question 4.
Cadres of Americans sympathetic to Republican Spain organized themselves into the "Abraham Lincoln Brigade" to fight the fascists.

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Question 5.
When Hitler invaded France in the summer of 1940, his armies met with stiff resistance from a coalition of British, French, and American troops.

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Question 6.
As FDR moved to mobilize American society for war, he was resisted by the conservative America First Committee, and its supporters such as Charles Lindbergh.

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Question 7.
US military intelligence had broken the Japanese codes and knew beforehand of Japan's intentions to bomb Pearl Harbor.

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Question 8.
Although no charges of criminal activity or treason were ever brought against any Japanese Americans, the American government ordered the internment of 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans.

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Question 9.
The experience of internment proved so devastating that, after the war, 5766 Nisei, native-born American citizens, renounced their citizenship.

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Question 10.
Despite discrimination at home, Japanese Americans served with distinction in Europe, suffering huge casualties in the effort.

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