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Blitzkrieg
Codename for D-day
Operation Overlord
U.S. President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK
Date of the attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon.
September 11, 2001
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent"
Winston Churchill
Following WWII, the city of Berlin was carved into how many sections? Which countries held territory in Berlin?
Codename for Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
North and South Korea were divided along the....
38th Parallel
Codename for America's top secret Atomic Bomb development program.
Manhattan Project
Physical Symbol of the Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
Battle where this photo was taken
Battle of Iwo Jima
Area of Czechoslovakia given to Hitler in the Munich Pact.
Sudetenland
If one Southeast Asian country were to fall to Communism, the surrounding countries would fall as well...
Domino Effect
U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in schools as unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
1989
Reunification of Germany and Austria
Anschluss
Hitler's book that he wrote while in jail. Outlined his plans for the Third Reich.
Mein Kampf
Communist dictator who defeated the Chinese Nationalists in 1949.
Mao Zedong
The failed CIA assassination attempt of Fidel Castro.
Bay of Pigs
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Resistance against Hitler's bombing campaign against major cities like London during WWII
Battle of Britain
The FIRST atomic bomb was dropped on which Japanese city...
Hiroshima
What were the three terms negotiated to end the Cuban Missile Crisis?
1. Soviets remove nuclear missiles from Cuba
2. U.S. remove nuclear missiles from Turkey
3. U.S. agree to not invade Cuba
Glasnost and Perestroika
Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of openness and restructuring.
"Star Wars" was the derogatory nickname given to which initiative put forward by Ronald Reagan?
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)