World War II
What are the Allies and Axis Powers?
This brought the United States all the way out of the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
This president was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
TRUE OR FALSE:
The Cold war involved actual combat.
The division between North Korea and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
The reason the United States joined World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This is a suicide plane that the Japanese used to bomb Allies boats.
What is Kamikaze?
He became the president after FDR passed away.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist influence.
What is the Domino Theory?
Policy used by America to stop the influence of communism from spreading.
What is the Containment Policy?
A peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development.
What is the United Nations?
What is the Yalta Conference?
He was the 34th president (1953-1961).
The 327 day operation that flew food and supplies to West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
(SECOND RED SCARE)
What is McCarthyism?
This project was launched to create an atomic bomb; code name for research that extended across the country.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This campaign was created to win a victory at home as well as abroad.
What is the Double Victory Campaign?
He was the president at the beginning of World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The program proposed by George Marshall to supply economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild.
What is the Marshall Plan?
13 day confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The Soviets placed missiles in Cuba.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
These two countries were hit by the atomic bomb, which made Japan surrender in World War II.
!!!(DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PRONOUNCED CORRECTLY, BUT MUST SAY MORE THAN JUST THE LETTERS)!!!
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This Supreme Court Case allowed the government to limit the civil rights of Japanese-American internment camps.
What is Korematsu vs the U.S.?
He was the president during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This policy provided economic and military aid to FREE nations threatened by internal and external opponents.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union.
Who is Alger Hiss?