WWI
Germany, Austria Hungary & Ottoman Empire
Central Powers
US Economic aid to Allies during WWII- The great "arsenal for democracy"
Lend-Lease Act
Dividing line between North and South Korea
38th Parallel
Turning point of war in Pacific
Midway
Dictator of Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Main reason US entered the war in 1917
Zimmerman Telegram
Germany invaded this country to begin war in Europe
Poland
Tet Offensive
Language of American code in Pacific
Navajo Indians
A group of Muslim fundamentalists who took control of Afghanistan’s government in 1996.
Taliban
The most feared weapon of WWI
Poison gas
The appeasement pact between Hitler and Chamberlain was signed in this German city
Munich
resulted in President Johnson getting full authority to wage war in Vietnam.
Gulf of Tonkin
First battle in naval history where all direct fighting was through air; the US stopped the Japanese from capturing Australia.
Coral Sea
Group of terrorists who carried out 9/11 attacks and found safe haven in Afghanistan.
al-Qaeda
The "spark" that started WWI
Assassination of archudke franz ferdinand
Also known as the draft
Selective Service Act
US attempt under Kennedy administration to overthrow Cuban government
Bay of Pigs invasion
Commander of US forces in Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Type of warfare fought by irregulars in fast-moving, small scale actions against orthodox military forces.
Guerilla warfare
Commander of American Expeditionary Forces in WWI
Commander of Allied forces in Normandy invasion
Dwight Eisenhower
Site of US landing in Korea
Inchon
"Divine Wind"- Japanese suicide pilots in Okinawa
Kamikaze
Country that invaded Afghanistan in 1980s
Soviet Union