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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| why did Japan attack Pearl harbor? | U.S. cut off Japans oil supplies and copper and metals |
| During the massive military campaign known as D-Day ,allied troops landed where? | Normandy,France |
| The world body that was formed after World War 2 to help maintain peace was called? | United Nations |
| What was the name of the trials that tried Nazi leaders for war crimes? | Nuremberg trials |
| The Holocaust was caused by Germans attempt to do what? | create a master race |
| What was the Manhattan project? | Build of the atomic bomb |
| May 8th, the day after German leaders officially signed an unconditional surrender, was called? | V-E day |
| What was Germany last offensive move during ww2 ? | Battle of the Bulge |
| The largest seaborn invasion in History? | D-Day |
| In the late 1940's and 1950'S, the area known as behind the iron curtain included? | Russia |
| What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine? | Domino theory |
| What action did General MacArthur take during the Korean war that immediately led to his discharge? | he got fired because he criticized the President |
| The bay of pigs was a failed attempt to overthrow who? | Fidel Castro |
| What does "Perestroika" refer to? | A new way for communism and Economics-Polities |
| What mostly Hindu country has the worlds largest democracy? | India |
| As a British colony,this nation was called gold coast? | Ghana |
| What nation was formerly known as East Pakistan? | Bangladesh |
| Describe the partition of India? | India and Pakistan |
| The dividing of India into two nations was referred to as? | Partiton |
| This was the name taken bu east Pakistan once they broke away from west Pakistan? | Bangladesh |
| What was the domino theory? | one communism falls they all fall |
| what was the Tet offensive? | January 1968/ Vietnam/ Vietcong attacked south leader |
| Why was the Tet offensive considered the turning point of the war? | Americans believed we could not win the war |
| Give three reasons why many Americans protested the war | We had no right to be there,fighting was immortal,and thought coast to american society was to high |
| Give three reasons why the war was so frustrating to US soldiers? | young and inexperienced soldiers,19 of age, fighting was different than ww2 |
| What happened on November 22,1963 in Dallas,Texas? | John F. Kennedy was assassinated |
| Who became president after Kennedy was assassinated? | Lyndon Johnson |
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