Before which important event did the Allies set up a "Phantom Army" (aka "Ghost Army") to trick Germany?
D-Day
100
What new fighting strategy did the Japanese employ against the Americans at Leyte Gulf?
kamikaze pilots
100
According to the __________, the US should help free people who are fighting against minority armies inside their own country or foreign enemies.
Truman Doctrine
100
What is the name for the US policy to stop communism from spreading?
containment
100
The Soviet Union felt threatened when which country joined NATO?
Germany (West Germany)
200
During what event did Hitler kill himself?
Battle of Berlin
200
Which two islands did the US take in order to have a base to attack mainland Japan?
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
200
The US and Britain responding to the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin by conducting the ___________.
Berlin Airlift
200
Name 2 satellite nations of the Soviet Union.
Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Romania, etc
200
What strategy did General Westmoreland want to use to win in Vietnam (BESIDE winning "hearts and minds")?
war of attrition
300
When the Allies captured Aachen, Hitler gave the order which prompted this final offensive battle by the Nazis.
Battle of the Bulge
300
Which general, who had been ordered to flee from the Philippines early in the war, abandoning his troops, returned to reconquer the Philippines in 1944?
MacArthur
300
Americans were shocked when this war crime in Vietnam was reported in American newspapers. A photographer who witnessed the event gave the photographs and an interview to the newspapers.
My Lai Massacre
300
Give two ways the USA and Soviet Union fought for influence in the developing world BESIDES open warfare.
economic aid; weapons; covert actions; training other military groups
300
The Soviet Union threatened to drop nuclear bombs on Britain and France during what conflict?
Suez War
400
General _________ commanded the Allied forces that were able to defeat the superior strategies of Erwin Rommel in North Africa.
Eisenhower
400
In this battle, 110,000 Japanese soldiers died, and 2 Japanese generals committed ritualistic suicide rather than face the shame of surrendering.
Okinawa
400
Name 2 of the nations that declared independence from Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzogevina
400
What two events caused Mao to lose some prestige (face) in China?
failure of the Great Leap Forward; declining relationship with Soviet Union
400
"Solidarity" was a movement that helped bring democracy to which satellite state of the Soviet Union?
Poland
500
Four-month battle less than 40 miles from Rome
"Bloody Anzio"
500
What was the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, and what was the name of the bomb?
Enola Gay; Little Boy
500
Which unpopular leader of South Vietnam was assassinated by the CIA?
Ngo Dinh Diem
500
Why was the UN able to attack North Korea, and what percentage of the UN troops sent to Korea were American?
Soviet Union was boycotting UN because China was represented by the ROC; 90%
500
What was the name of the 2014 protest movement in Hong Kong, and how did it get this name?
Umbrella movement; protestors used umbrellas to defend themselves from pepper spray