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APUSH Multiple Choice Chapter 12 Test Questions.603. All of the following were true of the American regular army on the eve of the War of 1812 except A) they were ill-trained and ill-disciplined. B) they were widely scattered. C) their numbers were large enough that they did not have to rely on the militia. D) most of the generals were leftovers from the Revolutionary War and lacked vigor and vision. E) there was no burning national anger to unite them. C 604. When the United States ente...

Harold Alexander correct answers British General; Dunkirk Claude Auchinleck correct answers British General; in battle of El Alamein; replaced by Bernard Montgomery Pietro Badoglio correct answers Italy- next prime minister after Mussolini and joins Allies side after Invasion of Sicily Omar Bradley correct answers Commander of Omaha Beach on D-Day Winston Churchill correct answers Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII Mark Clark correct answers United States general who was ...

Medical Terminology Exam 1 (self tests 1,2,3,4, & 6) Q&A Which of the following sorts of words came into English in the Romano-Celtic period? -Place names, e.g., Norwich, Worcester French food vocabulary, e.g., beef, poultry Scientific vocab, e.g., cardiac Religious words, e.g., priest In which period of English did lots of parallel Latinate French vocabulary come up alongside native Germanic vocabulary, e.g., table vs. stable? Old English -Middle English Romano-Celtic Modern English...

OCS Military History Lesson 6D-Day - correct answer -WW2 - Allied invasion of N. Europe in 1944 - codenamed Operation Overlord - commanded by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower - Allied bombers pounded the Nazi line and paratroopers landed behind enemy lines before amphibious landing on Normandy beach - Use of Combined Arms and airborne units - Secured safe landing zones for reinforcements - Air superiority by use of strategic bombing - Brilliant deception plan and success - US Army success lie...

Hist 351 Final Exam accurate QuestionsWinston Churchill - ANSWER successfully led Britain through world war 2. Refusal to give, claimed there was an iron curtain descended across Europe. Erwin Rommel - ANSWER Holds the Mareth Line, attacks the US at the battle of the Kasserine pass. viewed as semi good german leader. Tank commander, comes from average family, not involved in death camps, eventually turned against Hitler. was in charge of defences along beach of Normandy. Was against Hitler's...

Amsco AP US History Chapter 22Beginning of the War - correct answers - Serbian terrorist assassinates Archduke Ferdinand - Austria declares war on Serbia - Germany, an ally of Germany, declares war on Russia, an ally of Serbia - Germany declares war on France, an ally of Russia - Britain, as an ally of France, declares war on Germany Causes of the war - correct answers M - militarism A - secret alliances N - nationalism I - imperialism A - assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Archdu...

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) - correct answer An agreement between Portugal and Spain which declared that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. St. Augustine (1565) - correct answer The oldest continually inhabited European settlement in United States territory. Mercantilism - correct answer European government policies ...

Afrika Korps correct answers German expedition force in north Africa. Was a term commonly used to refer to all German troops in Africa by the allies. Auschwitz correct answers German concentration camp that was part of "the final solution." Located in southern Poland. Estimated 1.1 million people were killed here. Liberated by the USSR in 1945. Pietro Badoglio correct answers The replacement to Mussolini. He was Prime Minister of Italy from 1943-1944. Was a general in WWI and in WWII unt...

Adolf Hitler - Leader of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich in Germany during World War II. Time Man of the Year in 1938. "Der Fuhrer"-Leader 1933-45. His philosophy was embodied in his book Mein Kampf (), attracted widespread support, and after 1934 he ruled as an absolute dictator. Hitler's invasion of Poland (1939) led to the outbreak of World War II. His regime was infamous for the extermination of millions of people, especially European Jews. He committed suicide when the collapse o...

"Let one hundred flowers bloom" - Chairman Mao Zedong's "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend". This slogan was used during the period of approximately six weeks in the summer of 1957 when the Chinese intelligentsia were invited to criticize the political system then obtaining in Communist China. It is sometimes suggested that the initiative was a deliberate attempt to flush out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the regime....