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Abeka U.S. History 8
Ch. 20: A World at War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nazi leader who took control of Germany in 1934 | Adolf Hitler |
| The code name given to the atomic bomb project | Manhattan Project |
| Japanese suicide planes | kamikazes |
| Name of the socialist party in Italy controlled by Mussolini | Fascist |
| Lead pilot of the Japanese attack planes at Pearl Harbor | Mitsuo Fuchida |
| The German general known as the "Desert Fox" | Erwin Rommel |
| The President who proposed the "Fair Deal" for America | Harry S. Truman |
| The German method of attack which means "lightening war" | blitzkrieg |
| The American plan for attacking the Pacific Islands | island hopping |
| German city divided between Communism and freedom | Berlin |
| When did Israel once again become a nation-state? | 1948 |
| Where has the United Nations met since 1945? | New York City |
| Who led the U.N.'s forces in Korea? | General MacArthur |
| Operation Torch was the code name for this invasion of this country. | Africa |
| This was the first city destroyed by an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 | Hiroshima |
| Jesse Owens is best remembered as this | An Olympic Hero |
| Several Nazi war criminals were found guilty at these trials. | Nuremburg Trials |
| This mass slaughter of the Jews by the Nazis killed over 6 million Jews. | Holocaust |
| "Liberty ships" were built by this industrialist. | Henry Kaiser |
| Through the darkest days of WWII, the people of England looked to this prime minister for strength and leadership. | Winston Churchill |
| After WWII this new kind of war began, a conflict between Americanism and Communism. | Cold War |
| The leader of the free Chinese against both the Japanese and Chinese Communists. | Chiang Kai-shek |
| The policy America adopted toward Korea, which meant stopping Communism from spreading but not destroying it. | Containment |
| Pledged American help for any free nation threatened by Communist takeover | Truman Doctrine |
| This advisor of President Roosevelt at Yalta was a Communist party organizer in the United States. | Alger Hiss |
| This allowed America to loan tremendous amounts of war material to the Allies fighting Germany in WWII. | Lend-Lease Act |
| The landing at Inchon was an important battle in this war. | Korean War |
| He said an "iron curtain" had descended across Europe, separating free nations from Communist nations. | Winston Churchill |
| German jets were first shot down by this American fighter squadron. | Fighting Red Tails |
| Canada, the United States, and several Western European nations established this military alliance. | NATO |
| This was established by President Eisenhower to defend Southeast Asia from Communism. | SEATO |
| These acts of the 1930's were designed to keep America out of war | Neutrality Acts |
| Women in the armed forces made up these groups. | WACS and WAVES |
| The Marshall Plan was to give money and supplies to help rebuild this place after WWII. | Europe |
| He became a missionary to Japan after being a prisoner of war in that country. | Jacob DeShazer |
| Second-generation Japanse-Americans | Nisei |
| V-J Day was proclaimed on September 2 of this year. | 1945 |
| This battle was the turning point in the war in the Pacific. | Battle of Midway |
| By 1941, this country stood alone as the last bastion for freedom in Europe. | Britain |
| The Nazi-Soviet Pact divided up this country. | Poland |
| This was the first naval battle in which opposing ships never saw each other | Battle of Coral Sea |
| These men helped develop the atomic bomb. | Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Who led the Free Chinese against both the Japanese and the Chinese Communists? | Chiang Kai-shek |
| Prime Minister of Britain during WWII | Winston Churchill |
| The name of the German army's last great offensive in Europe | Battle of the Bulge |
| The Japanese lost nearly all of their remaining ships and planes in this battle. | Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| Led U.S. forces in the Philippines | General MacArthur |
| led a bombing raid over Tokyo | Colonel Jimmy Doolittle |
| Allied commander in Europe | General Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Aggressive American general who led the invasion of Sicily | General George Patton, Jr. |
| First candidate to campaign by going directly to the people. | Harry S. Truman |
| Leader of the Free French forces. | Charles de Gaulle |
| What happened on December 7, 1941? | Pearl Harbor |
| What American Indian tribe did the U.S. government employ to relay messages in secret code? | Navajo |
| What nickname was given to the American fighter pilots that shot down the first German jet fighters? | Fighting Red Tails |
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