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NC USH Goals 10 + 11
WWII and Cold War Review by Matt Ingram
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Communist dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII | Stalin |
| The Selective Service Act is also known as the | Draft |
| Trying to pacify an aggressor in order to keep peace, much like England and France did to Hitler | Appeasement |
| Women served in this military agency which regulated them to non-combat positions | WAAC |
| City that was the site of the first atomic bomb dropping in Japan | Hiroshima |
| Name of the secret project that built the atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| Site where the US and the Allies invaded Europe on D-Day, June 6 1944 | Normandy |
| Countries under Soviet control after WWII | Satellite Nations |
| The bombing of this naval base began America's direct involvement in WWII | Pearl Harbor |
| This incident led to the US getting involved militarily in Vietnam | Gulf of Tonkin |
| This battle was the turning point of the Pacific in WWII | Midway |
| Court case that ruled that during a time of crisis people's rights can be limited, like the internment of Japanese-Americans | Korematsu |
| This US Senator led a 'witch hunt' in making broad accusations that people were communists | McCarthy |
| This body is considered the most powerful part of the United Nations | Security Council |
| Organization of western European countries and the US after WWII designed to contain communism | NATO |
| Term referring to all the nations under Soviet control | Iron Curtain |
| Group of communist nations formed to oppose NATO, named after the capital of Poland | Warsaw Pact |
| First Russian satellite in space | Sputnik |
| Sputnik resulted in the US stressing the importance of teaching these 2 subjects in school | Math, Science |
| Due to fear of nuclear war, this procedure was practiced by school children | Duck and Cover |
| This agency was created in order to help the US catch up to the Russians in the space race | NASA |
| The House Un-American Committee's purpose was to find suspected ____________ in America. This was part of the Red Scare following WWII | communists |
| Barrier built to keep East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin | Berlin Wall |
| Kennedy's policy of using nonnuclear weapons, like the Green Berets, to fight a war | Flexible Response |
| Closest situation to nuclear war involving Kennedy's standoff with Russia over Cuba | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Kennedy's goal in the space race was to beat the Russians to this spot by the end of the 1960s | Moon |
| American spy plane that was shot down over Soviet airspace and caused great embarrasement to the US | U2 |
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