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WWII/Cold War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| U.S. president during most of WWII | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| President who ordered use of the atomic bombs | Harry S. Truman |
| Dictator of Germany | Adolf Hitler |
| Dictator of Italy | Benito Mussolini |
| Prime Minister of Great Britain during most of WWII | Winston Churchill |
| Dictator of the U.S.S.R. | Josef Stalin |
| Emperor of Japan | Hirohito |
| Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in WWII | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| U.S. Commander in the Pacific. Said, “I shall return” | Douglas MacArthur |
| African-American labor leader who worked to end discrimination in war industries | A. Philip Randolph |
| Battle that was the turning point on the eastern front with the defeat of a German army | Battle of Stalingard |
| Battle that was the evacuation of British troops across the English channel from France | Battle of Dunkirk |
| Battle that was the turning point in the Pacific theatre | Battle of Midway |
| Allied invasion to retake France. Operation Overlord. Began on D-Day. | Normandy Invasion |
| Last counteroffensive by Germany prior to her defeat | Battle of the Bulge |
| Turning point in the North African campaign | Battle of El Alamein |
| The first Axis nation to be defeated | Italy |
| The second Axis nation to be defeated | Germany |
| The last Axis nation to be defeated | Japan |
| F.D.R.’s policy towards Latin America | Good Neighbor Policy |
| Policy that condemned Japan’s occupation of Manchuria but took no action | Hoover-Stimson Doctrine |
| Policy of Britain and France to give in to Hitler’s demands | Appeasement |
| Legislation that demonstrated U.S. foreign policy at start of WWII | Neutrality Act |
| Legislation that gave active material support to the Allies | Lend-Lease Act |
| Supreme Court decision allowing internment of Japanese Americans | Korematsu v. US |
| Form of government of Germany and Italy in 1930s & WWII | Fascism |
| Form of government of U.S.S.R. in WWII | Communism |
| U.S. strategy in the Pacific | Island Hopping |
| Laws in Germany that denied rights to Jews | Nuremberg Laws |
| Project to develop the atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| Chief scientist of the project to develop the atomic bomb | Robert Oppenheimer |
| Term/tribe of Native Americans used to keep military communications secret | Code Talkers/Navajo |
| Image that encouraged women to enter wartime industries | Rosie the Riveter |
| African-American bomber escort squadron | Tuskegee Airmen |
| Phrase that described U.S. role as supplier of arms to the Allies | Arsenal of Democracy |
| Formed after WWII to maintain world peace | United Nations |
| He proposed containment as a foreign policy | George Kennan |
| He proposed liberation as a foreign policy | John Dulles |
| President at the end of WWII and at the start of the Cold War | Harry S. Truman |
| President during most of the 1950s | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| General who commanded the U.N. forces in the Korean War | Douglas MacArthur |
| Senator who led a communist “witch hunt” | Joseph McCarthy |
| He pioneered the mass building of homes in the suburbs | William Levitt |
| Beatnik. Wrote On The Road. | Jack Kerouak |
| Critical of conformity. Wrote Man in the Grey Flannel Suit | Sloan Wilson |
| Leader of the communist revolution in China | Mao Zedong |
| Leader of the Nationalist government in China | Chiang Kai-Shek |
| Leader of the communist revolution in Cuba | Fidel Castro |
| Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death | Nikita Khrushchev |
| He coined the term “iron curtain” | Winston Churchill |
| He created the polio vaccine | Dr. Jonas Salk |
| . Overall U.S. foreign policy following WWII | Containment |
| Plan to give aid to Greece and Turkey to resist communism | Truman Doctrine |
| Plan to give aid to Middle Eastern nations resisting communism | Eisenhower Doctrine |
| Gave $13 billion in aid to help western European nations recover | Marshall Plan |
| Term described the division in Europe between democratic and communist nations | Iron Curtain |
| Pres. Truman’s domestic program was called this | Fair Deal |
| What the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) investigated | Suspected Communists |
| U.S. led example of collective security | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
| Legislation that weakened unions | Taft-Hartley Act |
| Legislation that assisted soldiers returning home after WWII | Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (G.I. Bill) |
| Those born between 1946 and 1964 are referred to as the : | Baby Boom Generation |
| Term for attempts at lessening tensions with the U.S.S.R. | Détente |
| President Eisenhower’s warning of the ____, that private industry might exert influence over government to acquire defense contracts | Military-Industrial Complex |
| Eisenhower’s emphasis on technology and nuclear forces for defense was called : | New Look |
| The winner of the 1948 presidential election | Harry S. Truman |
| . Incident that spoiled détente during Eisenhower administration | U-2 Incident |
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