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US His Final Sem2
US His Final Sem 2 Dangel
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fascist Leader of Italy-nickname Il Duce | Benito Mussolini |
| Prime Minister of Great Britain at beginning of WWII-believed in appeasement | Neville Chamberlain |
| Japanese Prime Minister-nickname "The Razor" | Hideki Tojo |
| Leader of US bombers that took off from the USS Hornet, flew to Japan and bombed Tokyo | James Doolittle |
| Russian Leader known as "The Great Terror" | Joseph Stalin |
| Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII | Winston Churchill |
| Nazi leader of Germany during WWII | Adolf Hitler |
| Granting concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace | Appeasement |
| US could sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease,lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any govern any defense article whenever it was necessary in the interest of the defense of the USA | Lend-Lease Act |
| USA declares war on Japan | Dec. 8, 1941 |
| War was none of America's business and the nation should isolate itself from the hostilities of war | Isolationist |
| Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii the site of the United States Navy's main Pacific base | Dec. 7, 1941 |
| Document that endorsed national self-determination | Atlantic Charter |
| War did affect American interests and the US should intervene in the conflict on the side of the Allies | Interventionist |
| Pilot of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan | Paul Tibbets chpts. 11 |
| US President during WWII, ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan to end the war and save Allied lives | Harry Truman |
| Physicist involved in building the atomic bomb - nicknamed "The Mahattan Project" | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Pilot who flew bomber nicknamed "Bockscar" carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 | Charles Sweeney |
| Bomber called the "Super Fortress" could carry heavier bomb loads, and fly higher and faster than other bombers | B-29 |
| Dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets | Strategic Bombing |
| Giving up completely with no concessions | Unconditional Surrender |
| Liberator bomber built in Henry Ford's factory | B-24 |
| Dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum | Saturation Bombing |
| Received more medals than any other American in World War II | Audie Murphy |
| Supreme Commander of operations in Europe during Operation Overlord | Dwight Eisenhower |
| African American WWII fighter squadron that escorted bombers to their target and back protecting them from the enemy-never lost a single bomber | Tuskegee Airmen |
| First Japanese city to be bombed by US with the atomic bomb- Aug. 6 1945 | Hiroshima |
| Nazis prosecuted for war crimes | Nuremberg Trials |
| Location on Iwo Jima where American soldiers planted the American flag symbolizing the heroic sacrifice of American soldiers | Mt. Surbachi |
| D-Day, invasion of Europe at 50 mile stretch of beachs in Normandy, France | Operation Overlord |
| Bomber called the "Flying Fortress" | B-17 |
| Code name for first detonation of nuclear bomb | Trinity |
| Capturing some islands and ignoring others in a steady path toward Japan | Island Hopping |
| United Nations Secretary General From South Korea | Ban Ki Moon |
| Soviet scientist spy who worked on the nuclear bombs during the Manhattan Project | Kraus Fuchs |
| Japanese officially surrendered on this ship officially ending WWII on Aug 9, 1945 | USS Missouri |
| Location of the building facilities of the atomic bomb | Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| Anticommunism in US that resulted in extreme reckless charges, and irresponsible allegations to discredit single Americans | McCarthyism |
| Made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the US government | Smith Act |
| US plan to provide grants and loans to European countries to buy food and rebuild after WWII | Marshall Plan |
| Promise to help nations struggling against communism | Truman Doctrine |
| Strongly disaproved | Censured |
| The original "Candy Bomber" dropping chocolate into Berlin attached to small parachutes to children during Berlin Airlift | Gail Halvorsen |
| West Virginian Senator who charged that the US State Department was infested with communist agents | Joseph McCarthy |
| NATO Secretary General who spoke at the 6oth anniversary of VE Day and stated Denmark's cooperation with Nazis was "morally unjustifiable" | Anders Fogh Rasmussen |
| US General who drove North Korean troops out of South Korea | Douglas MacArthur |
| Charged with conspiring to pass secret information about nuclear science to Soviet agents | Rosenbergs |
| World wide rivalry between the US and Soviets-no shots were fired | Cold War |
| First satellite in orbit Oct. 4, 1957-Launched by the Soviets | Sputnik I |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | NATO |
| The dropping of candy and gifts by American pilot Gail Halversen to the children within the blockaded city of Berlin during WWII | Operation Vittles |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA |
| US would use force to help any Middle Eastern nation threatened by communism | Eisenhower Doctrine |
| Keep Communism contained within its existing borders | Containment |
| A pledge to oppose the integration of public schools and public places | Southern Manifesto |
| People did not have to pay a poll tax anymore to vote | 24th Amendment |
| Students lead by Rev. James Lawson staged a sit-in to protest discrimination at lunch counters and businesses | Nashville |
| Two buses of African American who rode through the South testing the new Supreme Court ruling the separate but equal is illegal | Freedom Rides |
| Symbol of young African American militants | Black Panthers |
| Most segregated city in the south | Birmingham |
| One or more people occupying an area for a protest | Sit-ins |
| Segregation imposed by law | De Jure |
| Assasination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas | Nov. 22, 1963 |
| For over a year black did this to change the rules of where they had to sit | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| segregation by custom or tradition | De Facto |
| African American radical who converted to Islan while in prison | Malcolm X |
| NAACP's head lawyer | Thurgood Marshall |
| First black American to play major league baseball | Jackie Robinson |
| Chief Justice of Supreme Court when Brown v. Board of Education "Separate but Equal" was determined unconstitutional' | Earl Warren |
| African American seamstress who refused to give her bus sear up to a white person and was throw in jail for this action | Rosa Parks |
| Baptist Minister and Civil Rights leader, preached non-violence | Martin Luther King JR. |
| City in Arkansas that refused to desegregate its public schools by blocking the admittance of black students | Little Rock |
| Gave African Americans citizenship | 14th Amendment |
| Location where one of the Freedom Ride buses was firebombed | Anniston |
| Location of major campaigns to pressure the federal government to enact voting rights legislation-protest climaxed at Edmund Pettus Bridge, incident called "Bloody Sunday" | Selma |
| First director of the FBI | J. Edgar Hoover |
| First African American Supreme Court Justice | Strom Thurmond |
| Birmingham, Alabama's Public Safety Commissioner who used police dogs and fire hoses to break up a peaceful demonstration of children | Eugene "Bull" Connor |
| Assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. | James Earl Ray |
| Assassinated John F. Kennedy | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| President Johnson's economic plan for the US | Great Society |
| Group of young Americans who volunteered to travel to third world countries to help them improve their living conditions | Job Corps |
| The US will be prepared to fight any type of conflict | Flexible Response |
| Health insurance for the poor and disabled under the age of 65 | Medicaid |
| United States successfully landed a man on the moon | July 20, 1969 |
| Wall built around Free Berlin to keep Germans from defecting to a democratic nation | Berlin Wall |
| Elementary and Secondary educational programs to provide resources for individuals and schools- also a preschool program | Head Start |
| Federal program that provides vouchers that can be used by poor at stores to purchases food | Food Stamps |
| President Kennedy's economic plan for the United States | New Frontier |
| Health Care for those over 65 years old | Medicare |
| Dallas nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald the alleged assassinator of Pres. John F. Kennedy | Jack Ruby |
| Communist leader of Cuba | Fidel Castro |
| United States Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. He is best known for his role in stopping the My Lai Massacre, | Hugh Thompson |
| Group of U.S. Army soldiers attacked and murdered numerous unarmed Vietnamese civilians | My Lai Massacre |
| If one country in the Middle East becomes communist they will all be taken over by communism | Domino Theory |
| Political scandal that lead to the resignation of Pres. Nixon | Watergate |
| Became President when Nixon resigned | Gerald Ford |
| Pres. Reagen's plan to develop innovative defenses to guard the US against nuclear attack | Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI or Star Wars) |
| Phrase coined by Pres. George W. Bush referring to Iraq, Iran, and North Korea because they aggressively pursue weapons of mass destruction | Axis of Evil |
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