Here Comes the BOOM!
Who was the scientist and research director of the Atomic Bomb project?
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
Which battle was where German forces launched a surprise attack on Allied forces in the forested Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France?
What is the Battle of the Bulge
What forced Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for World War I?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
What was the foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation in order to prevent war?
What is Appeasement?
What was the tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage?
What is Saturation Bombings?
At what event did the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France agreed to split Germany into four zones of occupation after the war?
What is the Yalta Conference?
What established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Who were convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II?
Who were the Rosenberg's?
What refers to the attempted aerial bombing of a target with some degree of accuracy, with the aim of maximizing target damage or limiting collateral damage?
What are Precision Bombings?
This was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War when the Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
Which of the settlements was reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia?
What is the Munich Pact?
In this case, the Supreme Court held that the wartime internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional.
What is Korematsu v. the United States?
What was a foreign policy strategy followed by the United States during the Cold War that was first laid out by George F. Kennan in 1947, which stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries?
What is containment?
What was officially created on August 13, 1942 due to the constant rumors of a German nuclear weapon?
What is the Manhattan Project?
Which battle began on December 7, 1941, when Japan launched a surprise air attack on the US naval base hoping for a short war, seeking to quickly weaken the US naval strength and capture strategically vital oil supplies?
Pearl Harbor
What was the statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I?
What are the Fourteen Points?
What is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States which began during the start of the Cold War, that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the mid to late 1950s?
What is McCarthyism?
Which battle did the U.S. Navy's decisive victory in the air-sea battle (June 3-6, 1942) and its successful defense of the major base located at ______ island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific?
What is the Battle of Midway?
Which strategy targeted key islands and atolls to capture and equip with airstrips, bringing B-29 bombers within range of the enemy homeland, while hopping over strongly defended islands, cutting off supply lanes and leaving them to wither?
What is island hopping?
What happened on June 6, 1944 when the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France?
What is D-Day?
What was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II?
What is the Marshall Plan?
In February 1942, President Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief, issued Executive Order 9066 which ruled what for Japanese Americans?
What is Japanese Internment?
Occurring immediately after World War II, what was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting U.S. society and the federal government?
What is the Second Red Scare?