Aftermath
War
Important People
Hodgepodge
100

They systematic killing of Jews by Nazis was known as this event and led to million dead from German death camps.

What is the Holocaust?

100

A communist North Korea and a noncommunist South Korea was a direct result of this war.

What is the Korean war?

100

This US President called for the Soviet Union to "tear down this wall."

Who is Ronald Reagan?

100

True or False: More people were killed in WWII than any other war in history.

What is true?

200

These trials were to judge Nazis leaders for their policies and orders.

What were the Nuremberg trials?

200

The struggle between the Eastern Bloc and the West that lasted for 40 years is also known as what.

What is the Cold War?

200

Leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Who is Fidel Castro?

200

This doctrine committed the US to the anticommunist policy of containment.

What is the Truman Doctrine?

300

A mutual defense alliance of communist nations best describes intergovernmental military alliance.

What is NATO?

300
Two cities that were the targets of the atomic bombs.  The argument was that an invasion of Japan would cost hundreds of thousands of American lives so this would be a better alternative.

What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

300

US President who led during most of WWII.

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

300

This major event was a catalyst for the US finally entering WWII.

What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?

400

True or False:

In the immediate years after WWII the US was the richest country on earth, Germany was divided into military zones and the Soviet Union had become one of the world's greatest military powers.

What is true?
400

The Soviet Union and the US came to the brink of war in this event.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

400

US President AND Soviet Union leader who were a part of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Who is Kennedy and Krushchev?

400

This Cold War event had a goal of providing supplies to German citizens.

What was the Berlin Airlift?

500

Baby booms, the Civil Rights movement and this colorful slogan were all things happening in the decades after WWII.

What is the Red Scare?

500

Japan, Germany and Italy were in an alliance known as the what?

What is the Axis powers?
500

Prime Minister of Great Britain AND leader of Soviet Union during WWII.

Who is Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin?

500

This group hoped to have lasting peace, creation of the United Nations, increased cooperation, increased social welfare and a common market for goods in the decades after WWII.

Who were the Allied Powers?

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