World War I
Depression/1930s
World War II
Cold War
Anything Goes!
100
The name for President Wilson's Program for Peace
What are the 14 Points? (The speech was made without prior coordination or consultation with Wilson's counterparts in Europe. Clemenceau, upon hearing of the Fourteen points, was said to have sarcastically claimed The good Lord only had ten!)
100
The German Air Force
What is Luftwaffe
100
African American awesome pilots
What are the Tuskeegee Airmen
100
Won the Civil War in China.
What are the Communists?
100
Battle of Midway
What is the turning point in the battle of the pacific war?
200
a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes.
What is an alliance?
200
Policy other nations of the world took to avoid war.
What is appeasement?
200
The event that began WWII
What is Germany's invasion of Poland.
200
Suburbs built immediately after World War II
What are Levitttowns
200
Taiwan
The country exiled Nationalists founded.
300
the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests
What is militarism?
300
The European nation that soon faced Germany alone.
What is Great Britain?
300
The policy of loaning materials to the British.
What is lend-lease?
300
Large increase in Birth Rates
What is the Baby Boom?
400
Trench Warfare.
What is a form of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.
400
three nations that showed aggression in the 1930s?
Germany, Italy, Japan
400
The Battle of Britain
What is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. It was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date.
400
an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe prosperous again, and prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
Reparations.
Payments intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
500
Great Depression.
A worldwide, severe economic disaster.
500
Lightening-war
What is Blitzkrieg?
500
Bay of Pigs.
What is a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intended to overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro.
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