Cold War
After World War II, the big three, Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill met at this location, a Soviet port on the Black Sea to discuss post war division of Germany.
What is Yalta?
The day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. This action forced Germany to fight a two front War.
What is D-Day (Operation Overlord)
After World War I, this country felt humiliated and resented losing territory and making war payments.
What is Germany?
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation
What is Genocide?
This man was president when the stock market crashed in 1929.
Who is Hebert Hoover?
Churchill's name for a line that behind it lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all were subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This action was taken on Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki effectively ending the second World War.
What is the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb?
The document that effectively ended WW I and left the Germans angry and desirous of rebuilding and revenge.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
What is a Ghetto?
He was president during most of World War 2. He also created the New Deal that helped to U.S. during the time of the Great Depression.
Who is President Roosevelt?
This was an alliance of democratic countries that was established to stop the spread of communism. However, the Soviet Union responded to this by forming the Warsaw Pact, which was an alliance of Communist Countries that was established to protect their ideas. Some argue that the creation of this alliance actually increased the cold war tensions.
What is NATO?
Strategy targeted key islands and atolls to capture and equip with airstrips, bringing B-29 bombers within range of the enemy homeland.
What is Island Hopping?
The League of Nations' diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to Germany in order to avoid conflict.
What is appeasement?
Also called Night of Broken Glass or November Pogroms, the night of November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property.
What is Kristalnacht?
This man became President after Roosevelt died in 1945. He also presented a plan that promised to help any nation threatened by communism.
Who is President Harry S. Truman?
These 2 US policies were part of the Containment policy in Europe. The goal was to stop communism from spreading. In the first the US promised $400 million to Greece and Turkey. In the second the US promised $12 Billion to Western European countries to prevent the spread of communism. These plans successfully stopped the spread of Communism in Europe.
What are the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan.
World War II started when Hitler invaded this nation.
What is Poland?
A crisis in the 1930's that brought misery to many people. It was a time of reduced economic activity where many people lost their jobs.
What is the Great Depression?
a camp where prisoners or persecuted minorities are forcibly confined, usually under harsh conditions
What is a Concentration Camp?
This president formed an immediate Navy blockade after hearing about long-range missiles placed in Cuba by the Soviets.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
In 1948, the Soviet Union announced that it was going to blockade Berlin to prevent the other allies from reaching their territories by roads. The US wanted to avoid war, so they did not want to send troops. This was their response instead.
A surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States
What is Pearl Harbor?
The rise of this style of rule in the face of economic and social strife in Europe after WWI contributed to the path toward WW II.
What is totalitarianism?
the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people
What is anti-Semitism?
This President convinced congress to pass the new Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. He also introduced government programs such as the Great Society.
Who is President Lyndon Johnson?