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      What important event took place in Casablanca, beyond "a beautiful friendship"?
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      • Conference where Roosevelt and Churchill mapped an invasion

      • Where Mussolini was tried and executed by firing squad

      • A meeting in which the USSR secretly promised aid to Allies

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      1. What important event took place in Casablanca, beyond "a beautiful friendship"?
        1. An allied invasion
        2. Conference where Roosevelt and Churchill mapped an invasion
        3. Where Mussolini was tried and executed by firing squad
        4. A meeting in which the USSR secretly promised aid to Allies

        1. The most famous Allied invasion took place on the beaches of Normandy. Mussolini was tried and executed in Milan. The meeting at which the USSR promised their help against Japan was called the Yalta Conference. Roosevelt and Churchill mapped out the invasion of Europe in Casablanca.

      2. What year was the U.S. government given the right to build a naval base at Pearl Harbor?
        1. 1778
        2. 1887
        3. 1891
        4. 1937

        1. The correct answer is 1887, but the other dates are all important in Hawaii's history too...

      3. How many lives are estimated to have been lost during the Pearl Harbor attack?
        1. 750
        2. 2,000
        3. 4,000
        4. 10,000

        1. In addition to the loss of around 2,000 lives, 19 ships, including 8 battleships, were sunk or disabled, and 177 aircraft were destroyed on the ground.

      4. Which of the following was NOT one of the Japanese targets following Pearl Harbor?
        1. Guam
        2. The Philippine Islands
        3. Hong Kong
        4. Bikini Island

        1. Within twenty-four hours of the December 7 attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan had launched attacks against Guam, the Philippine Islands, Hong Kong, Malaya, Wake Island, and Midway Island. NOT Bikini Island.

      5. Who said that America had become the "arsenal of democracy"?
        1. Franklin Roosevelt
        2. Boss Tweed
        3. Harry Truman
        4. Winston Churchill

        1. Many factories used for industrial goods during peacetime were converted to function as military suppliers for the war effort. In light of this, Franklin Roosevelt said America had become the "arsenal of democracy."

      6. Rationing: How many pairs of leather shoes were Americans permitted to own per yr?
        1. Three
        2. Ten
        3. Fifteen
        4. As many as they wanted

        1. Three pairs of leather shoes a year does not sound like many, but only a decade earlier, during the Depression years, thousands of families had no shoes at all.

      7. Who of the following key figures was NOT made aware of the Manhattan Project until 1945?
        1. Douglas MacArthur
        2. Franklin Roosevelt
        3. Winston Churchill
        4. Harry Truman

        1. While it was ultimately Truman's decision to drop the A-bomb, during his years as vice president he had been kept in the dark about the work at Los Alamos.

      8. Who wrote a letter to Roosevelt encouraging him to develop atomic capabilities?
        1. Winston Churchill
        2. Albert Einstein
        3. Helmut Kohl (future German prime minister)
        4. Charles DeGaulle

        1. Albert Einstein warned Roosevelt that the only way to prevent a European country from using such extreme power was for America to have equal power. Though his intentions had been good, Einstein later regretted writing the letter, feeling a sense of complicity in the bloody destuction he had helped make possible.

      9. After FDR's death, which Axis country gave a sympathetic message in respect for his death?
        1. Japan
        2. Germany
        3. Italy
        4. China

        1. Even between enemies, the loss of a great leader can be felt deeply. The correct answer is Japan.

      10. What does the "D" in D-Day stand for?
        1. Day of Destruction (signifying highly destructive act)
        2. Day of Defeat (signifying last decisive battle in a war)
        3. Day of Designation (signifying when military op is planned)
        4. Dogtag Day (day when soldier first receives ID tags)

        1. The "D" stand for the Day of Designation, signifying the date when a military operation is planned—i.e. August 6 was D-Day for the bombing of Hiroshima. There were many such "D-Day"s, but June 6, 1944, remains the most memorable.

      11. How long after the Allied invasion of Normandy did Germany actually surrender?
        1. Eighteen days
        2. Four months
        3. Eleven months
        4. Eighteen months

        1. Germany accepted an unconditional surrender the night of May 7, 1945—eleven months and a day after the invasion.

      12. What was Operation Overlord?
        1. Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy
        2. U.S. aircraft bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima
        3. U.S. invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte
        4. U.S. deceptive operation to mask the invasion of Normandy

        1. The correct answer is the invasion of Normandy.

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