The Cold War
What term refers to a group of nations that are under the political and economic control of the USSR?
What are Satellite Nations?
What Japanese city did the United States drop the second atom bomb?
What was Nagasaki?
What did Congress pass in 1917 to draft soldiers for World War 1?
What was the Selective Service Act?
When did the War of 1812 end?
What was 1815?
What was the name of the group American colonists who preferred British control?
Who were Loyalists?
What is the name of the alliance formed between the U.S and Western European countries to combat Soviet aggression?
What is NATO?
Who was the leader of Italy who created an alliance with Hitler and the Nazis?
Who was Benito Mussolini?
What U.S President was involved in World War One?
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
What treaty ended the War of 1812?
What was the Treaty of Ghent?
What persuasive novel by Thomas Paine was used to ultimately drive the American Revolution forward?
What was Common Sense?
What term did PM Winston Churchill use to describe the division of Europe following the 2nd World War?
What is the Iron Curtain?
What organization was the predecessor to the United Nations?
What was the League of Nations?
What Austrian-Hungarian official was assassinated in Sarajevo?
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What modern country did the United States first attack in the beginning of the War of 1812?
What was Canada?
Which document notably states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident… that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”?
What was the Declaration of Independence?
What country intervened in the Korean War on behalf of North Korea?
What is The People’s Republic of China?
What German general was referred to as the “Desert Fox”?
Who was Erwin Rommel?
What is a term for a cease fire between opponents in a war?
What is an armistice?
What country did the United Stated fight in the War of 1812?
What was the United Kingdom?
Where did Washington’s Continental Army spend a brutal winter of deprivation?
What was Valley Forge?
What U.S President decided to enact a naval blockade in Cuba?
Who was President John F Kennedy?
What was the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
What was the Enola Gay?
What is the term for the payment from one country to another for economic injury suffered during a war?
What are reparations?
What U.S. general defeated a large Native American force led by Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames?
Who was William Henry Harrison?
What was the first “turning point” battle in which Americans realized they could fend off the British successfully?
What was Bunker Hill?