Major Leaders
After serving as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII, this man was elected U.S. president in 1952.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This was the U.S. policy that tried to keep communism from spreading to new countries.
What is containment?
Dislike of the Jewish people.
What is anti-Semitism?
This is the process of assembling troops and readying them for war.
What is mobilization?
This Prime Minister led Britain in resisting the Nazis in World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This battle was the turning point of WWII in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
Those countries in Eastern Europe that were indirectly controlled by the Soviet Union were known by this name.
What are satellite nations?
Glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong government and dictatorial leader.
What is fascism?
This turtle was was the main character of the civil defense film "Duck and Cover."
Who is Bert the Turtle?
This man was the communist leader of North Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Great Britain and France followed this strategy in the years leading up to WWII, hoping that they could avoid going to war if they gave into Hitler's demands.
What is appeasement?
The 1970s saw a period of improved relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. What was this period called?
What is detente?
The opposition to all war.
What is pacifism?
This is the right of all countries to determine their own government.
What is self-determination?
This man was the leader of the Nationalist Party in China until he was forced into exile in 1949.
Who is Jiang Jieshi?
Name the four countries that occupied divided Germany after WWII.
What are Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, and United States?
This was a failed CIA operation to train Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro's government.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
If one country becomes communist, other neighboring countries will follow and also become communist.
What is the domino theory?
Following WWII, the U.S. created this plan, designed to help restore economic stability in Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This man took control as the leader of the U.S.S.R. shortly after the death of Stalin, and was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This was the plan for Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
What is Operation Barbarossa?
Mikhail Gorbachev promoted these two policies, both of which helped lead to the fall of the Soviet Union. Name the two policies AND what they mean.
What are glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring)?
A refusal to obey laws that are considered to be unjust.
What is civil disobedience?
This American actor, star of Baywatch and Knight Rider, sang off of the Berlin Wall the night it came down.
Who is David Hasselhoff?