World War II
This event on December 7, 1941, prompted the United States to enter World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This government agency was established to oversee the production of war materials during World War II.
What is the War Production Board?
This term refers to the economic boom in the United States after World War II.
What is the Baby Boom?
This term describes the hostile tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What is the Cold War?
This scientist played a key role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
This famous Allied invasion, also known as D-Day, occurred on June 6, 1944.
What is the Normandy Invasion?
Name the program under which over 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned during World War II.
What is the Japanese American Internment (or Executive Order 9066)?
Name the U.S. president who served during the majority of the 1940s, and most of World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Name the U.S. senator who led investigations into alleged communist influence in American society during the 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
He was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Name the two Japanese cities where the United States dropped atomic bombs in 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This iconic female figure represented the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
This conference held in 1945 outlined the post-war division of Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
The 1947 Truman Doctrine aimed to contain what?
What is Communism?
This African American baseball player broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
D-Day was also known as what
What is Operation Overlord?
This African American civil rights leader pushed for an end to segregation in the military and defense industries during World War II.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
The Marshall Plan, initiated in 1948, aimed to provide economic aid to help rebuild which continent?
What is Europe?
In 1949, this event heightened Cold War tensions as the Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb.
What is the Soviet atomic bomb test?
She was a prominent female figure during World War II, known for her work as a journalist and her radio broadcasts from Europe.
Who is Martha Gellhorn?
This organization was founded in 1945 to promote international cooperation and prevent future conflicts.
What is the United Nations?
This Supreme Court case upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This 1947 policy pledged to provide military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This military alliance, formed in 1949, was a mutual defense pact between Western European nations and the United States.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
This politician served as the Secretary of State under President Truman and was a key architect of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War.
Who is George C. Marshall?