Giving into the demands of a potential enemy in order to preserve the peace
What is appeasment?
100
When allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France to take control from Germans.
What is D-DAY ?
100
The line of latitude that separates North & South Korea
What is the 38th parallel?
100
The two Politcal systems that were fought over the Cold War
What is Communism & Capitalism?
100
International organization where countries can settle and discuss international disputes and other issues to prevent future wars.
What is the United Nations?
200
Name of the German Dictator who rose to power in the 1930's
Who is Adolf Hitler?
200
During WWII American consumers limited to the amount of goods they could purchase (gas, tires, sugar, meat)
What is rationing?
200
The country that allied with North Korea during the Korean War
What is China?
200
Political/Military barrier that isolated Soviet Controlled countries of eastern Europe after WWII.
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
offered veterans $ for school as well as loans for houses, farms, & businesses
What is the GI Bill of rights?
300
A national foreign policy of remaining apart from political or economic involvement with other countries (The U.S. took this position at the start of WWII)
What is Isolationism?
300
detention center camps set up for Japanese Americans to live during the war.
What is internment camps?
300
famous U.S General that led the Pacific fleet during WWII and the beginning of the Korean war who was fired by president truman
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
300
Policy/ Process of preventing the expansion of an aggressive power.
What is Containment?
300
$13 billion of US loans & grants to Western Europe extended to Eastern Europe & USSR, [but this was rejected].
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
German word for lightening war
What is Blitzkrieg?
400
Attacking and capturing certain pacific key islands
What is island hopping?
400
The United States asked this group for help against the enemy during the Korean War.
What is the United Nations?
400
U.S. formed an alliance with Western European countries during the Cold War in case of an attack from the Soviet Union called
What is North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO)?
400
The two cities that the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs on ending WWII
What is Hiroshima & Nagasaki?
500
Great Britain & France allow Germany to annex a region of Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland) in exchange for Hitler promising not to make any further territorial demands
What is the Munich Agreement?
500
Major Battle in which Soviet Union was able to push back German eastern advance (turning point in war)
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
500
an attempt to starve West Berlin into submitting (giving up) to the communists
What is the Berlin Blockade?
500
In 1955, the Soviet Union formed its own military alliance with east European nations called...
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
(3rd neutrality act) allow nations to purchase nonmilitary goods if they paid cash for them & moved them in on their own ships