World War II
What is the full meaning of G.I.?
Government-Issued
Who were the Big Three?
Franklin Roosevelt/Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin
What was the increase in births from 1945 to 1964 called?
The Baby Boom
What was President Truman's response to Stalin's blockade of West Berlin?
The Berlin Airlift
What is the village of My Lai known for?
The My Lai Massacre
What is the name given to the treatment of Jews and others deemed "undesirable" by the Nazis?
The Holocaust
Adolf Hitler
What was the name of the Bill that provided financial aid to veterans for the purpose of attending college or obtaining a home loan?
The G.I. Bill of Rights
What was the CIA hatched plan to overthrow Cuban Leader, Fidel Castro?
The Bay of Pigs
What is the "credibility gap"?
What is the reason that women began to work in factories as steel workers and welders during World War II?
The men had left to fight in the war, and there was a need for their jobs to be filled.
Which countries are the 2 new world superpowers following World War II?
Soviet Union and the United States
What was the structure built in order to isolate the Communist portion of Berlin from the Capitalist portion?
The Berlin Wall
The Soviet Union formed what group in order to rival NATO?
The Warsaw Pact
A University in Ohio had the National Guard sent to their campus during the Anti-War Protests. The protestors threw rocks at the Guard, leading to the troops opening fire on the crowd. This event became known as what?
The Kent State Massacre
What was the code name for the program that developed the atomic bomb?
Manhattan Project
What was it called when Japan surrendered and officially ended World War II?
V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day)
What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
To provide support/aid to countries threatened by the Soviet Union/Communism.
What was it called to give reckless or extreme charges accusing others of sympathizing with communists?
McCarthyism
Why were the Vietcong a difficult enemy during the Vietnam War?
A. They were rebels, not uniformed soldiers, and thus very difficult to identify.
B. They did not control any territory, making it impossible to defeat them by conquering land.
C. They were known for digging extensive tunnels that allowed them to move around quickly.
D. All of the Above
D. All of the Above
What was the primary effect of the policy of internment when it came to Japanese Americans?
Japanese Americans were relocated and placed into internment camps.
What is known as the "Night of Broken Glass" when Jewish businesses and Synagogues were destroyed and burned?
Kristallnacht
What was the major contribution of people migrating out to the suburbs during the 1950s?
A lack of clean urban housing
Korea ended up remaining mostly divided along the 38th parallel following what war?
The Korean War
What event is marked as the turning point of the Vietnam War and is even contributed as one of the reasons that President Lyndon B. Johnson did not run for re-election?