2nd Semester Test Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
In the final weeks of WWII, Soviet troops met Allied troops at___________. | (Berlin, Germany) |
____________are the only superpowers left after WWII. | (U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.) |
By 1948, all of Eastern Europe was communist. This was the beginning of _______. | (The Cold War) |
Eastern communist countries started to build walls between Eastern and Western Europe. This was known as the________. | (Iron Curtain) |
The Cold War was a prolonged state of hostility between the _______ with the threat of nuclear war for nearly 40 years. | (United States of America and Soviet Union) |
President Harry Truman worked to prevent _____from spreading into all other countries. | (Soviet communism) |
The Truman Doctrine helped Western Europe by __________to encourage countries to resist communism. | (providing economic aid) |
By 1949, U.S. and Allied Powers setup the ________ to help each other in case of Soviet threat. | (NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
Soviet Union responded by setting up the ________ with other communist countries against U.S. and NATO members. | (Warsaw Pact) |
Joseph Stalin realized that U.S. had the _________that helped them defeat Japan in WWII. | (A-Bomb secrets) |
Stalin knew that he would also have to _________to counter any A-Bombs that America might use on Russia. Russia ___________________in 1949. | (build his own A-bombs, tests first A-bombs) |
By 1950, U.S.A. test a new bomb known as the__________. | (H-Bomb) |
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a __________over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. | (14-day political and military standoff) |
_________was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008. | (Fidel Castro) |
_________was President of the U.S. at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and he determined the U.S. response to the Soviet actions. | (John F. Kennedy) |
In the beginning, China went through a revolution to__________and setup a republic. | (get rid of the Emperor, the feudal system,) |
Sun Yat-sen established the_________. | (Nationalist Party) |
The ________of China was formed in 1921. | (Communist Party) |
On October 1, 1949, the ________was formally established, with its national capital at____________. | (People's Republic of China, Beijing) |
The Nationalist moved their government to ___________and set their capital at_________. | (Taiwan, Taipei) |
In 1971, ________was dismissed from the United Nations and the ______was invited into the United Nations. | (Taiwan, People’s Republic of China) |
U.S. President ___________met with Mao Zedong to improve American-Chinese relations. | (Richard Nixon) |
The Korean War: ___________launched an invasion of South Korea in 1950. | (North Korea) |
The Korean War forced America to focus on the spread of communism in Asia. U.S.A. was trying to stop a ______________. | (domino effect) |
North Vietnam used ____________known as the Viet Cong. | (guerrillas or hit-and-run fighters) |
In 1968, North Vietnam launched a number of attacks toward South Vietnam known as the ______________________. | (Tet Offensive) |
In the 1960s, _________increased the number of military advisors to the South Vietnam government. | (President Kennedy) |
After Kennedy was assassinated, new U.S. __________increased more military advisors, hoping to out last the Viet Cong. | (President Lyndon Johnson) |
This strategy does not work, U.S.A. pulls out the war and the_________. | Vietnam War ends |
__________was the longest economic downturn in the history of the Western world. | The Great Depression |
__________was an Italian leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling Italy from 1922 until 1943. | Benito Mussolini |
_________was leader of the Nazi Party of the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945. | Adolf Hitler |
During World War II, Japan launched a surprise assault on the U.S. naval base at ________. | Pearl Harbor |
Joseph Stalin started a program called ________ to help farm production and set collectives to make Russia into a industrial giant. | the 5-Year Plan |
On August 1939, Stalin and Hitler sign an agreement called _________, not to attack each other and secretly agreed to attack and divide Poland among themselves. | (Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact) |
How does World War II begin? | Germany attacks Poland |
________was the intense air battle between the Germans and British fighter pilots. | Battle of Britain |
In WWII, who were the Axis Powers? | Germany, Italy, & Japan |
In WWII, who were the Allies? | U.S.A., Great Britain, France, Russia |
The Big Three: _________agreed to defeat Germany first before attack Japan to end WWII. | Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, & Joseph Stalin |
The U.S. Army remembers June 6, 1944: World War II __________. | (D-Day) Invasion of Normandy, France |
Japan facing defeat, fought back using a technique called _______, sinking 30 ships. | kamikaze(suicide bombers) |
In World War I, who were the Triple Alliance? | Germany, Italy, & Austria-Hungary |
In World War I, who were the Triple Entente? | Russia, France, & Great Britain |
What was the spark that started World War I? | The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand. |
World War I was a war where what types of weapons were used the first time? | Machine guns, poison gas, airplanes, & tanks |
__________was the first battle of World War I. | The Battle of the Somme |
Result of World War I was _________. | over 300 billions dollars in damages and millions of deaths |
What were the 2 reasons why the U.S.A. entered World War I? | The Sinking of the Lusitania & Zimmerman Telegraph. |
When World War I ended, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson created a blueprint that was for world peace known as the __________. | Fourteen Points |
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