Aftermath
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?
A communist North Korea and a noncommunist South Korea was a direct result of this war.
What is the Korean war?
This US President called for the Soviet Union to "tear down this wall."
Who is Ronald Reagan?
True or False: More people were killed in WWII than any other war in history.
What is true?
These trials were to judge Nazis leaders for their policies and orders.
What were the Nuremberg trials?
The struggle between the Eastern Bloc and the West that lasted for 40 years is also known as what.
What is the Cold War?
Leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This doctrine committed the US to the anticommunist policy of containment.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
A mutual defense alliance of communist nations best describes intergovernmental military alliance.
What is NATO?
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
US President who led during most of WWII.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This major event was a catalyst for the US finally entering WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
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.
The Soviet Union and the US came to the brink of war in this event.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
US President AND Soviet Union leader who were a part of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Kennedy and Krushchev?
This Cold War event had a goal of providing supplies to German citizens.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Baby booms, the Civil Rights movement and this colorful slogan were all things happening in the decades after WWII.
What is the Red Scare?
Japan, Germany and Italy were in an alliance known as the what?
Prime Minister of Great Britain AND leader of Soviet Union during WWII.
Who is Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin?
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?