2071. What was the US strategy in the Pacific during WWII?
A. Blitzkrieg
B. Lightning war
C. Leapfrogging
D. None of these
✅ The correct answer is option C.
UPSC
2072. Which of the following countries was not a member of the Allies?
A. China
B. Britain
C. Japan
D. None of these
✅ The correct answer is option C.
2073. The French government that collaborated with the Nazis was located at:
A. Paris.
B. Dunkirk.
C. Vichy.
D. Verdun.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
2074. In 1937, the Japanese:
A. invaded Manchuria.
B. joined the Axis powers.
C. invaded Burma.
D. destroyed the strategic city of Nanjing.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
2075. The Reserve Police Battalion 101 of Hamburg:
A. was responsible for keeping order at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
B. refused to obey their orders to kill all Jewish inhabiting Hamburg.
C. was responsible for transporting five thousand Poles out of the Warsaw ghetto.
D. were policemen who obeyed orders to kill, in one day, 1,500 Jewish men, women and children.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
2076. World War II began on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of:
A. Poland
B. The Soviet Union.
C. The Sudetenland.
D. Belgium.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
2077. The Soviet Union entered the Pacific Theatre of World War II by:
A. marching into Manchuria and the colonial territory of Korea.
B. helping the British stop the Japanese invasion of India.
C. invading the island of Okinawa.
D. pushing the Japanese forces back on Hong Kong.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
2078. Which nation developed sonar and also cracked German codes for communicating with the “wolf packs”?
A. the Soviet Union.
B. Britain.
C. the United States.
D. Canada.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
2079. Following the naval evacuation of British and French troops at Dunkirk, the Germans invaded:
A. Poland.
B. Britain.
C. Scandinavia.
D. France.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
2080. The Kellogg-Briand Pact:
A. attempted to end the naval arms race.
B. sought to outlaw war as an international crime.
C. admitted Germany and the Soviet Union into the League of Nations.
D. forced the Soviet Union to leave the League of Nations.
✅ The correct answer is option B.