4 time president of the US during WWII and the Depression.
Who was FDR?
100
US President (Cold War) and US General (WWII). Oddly the only one on this test.
Who was Eisenhower?
100
FDR's plan for the US economy during the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
100
The African American campaign for victory in WWII AND victory of oppression at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
100
Turning point of WWII, saw the US Navy sink 4 Japanese carriers.
What is the Battle of Midway?
200
FDR's economic guru. Designed the eponymously named economic approach.
What is John Maynard Keynes?
200
US President who dropped the A-Bomb AND led the country during Korea.
Who is Truman?
200
FDR's policy for dealing with Latin America. He introduced it in 1933 but it defined US policy during WWII and it lasted through to the start of the Cold War.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
200
US project to develop the A-Bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
This is where WWII started for the US.
What is Pearl Harbor?
300
FDR's group of advisers during the Depression.
What is the Brain Trust?
300
US astronaut who landed on the Moon.
Who was Armstrong?
300
A meeting of FDR and Churchill in the Atlantic was the first "wartime" meeting. They agreed not to seek territorial expansion and fight together when the time came.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
300
Churchill's term for the Eastern Bloc. It descended from Settin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
Sight of the famous flag raising during WWII. Memorialized at the USMC Memorial in DC.
What is Iwo Jima?
400
Black US combat fighter pilots during WWII, trained in Alabama.
What is the Tuskegee Airmen?
400
"The King." Biggest name in Rock and Roll during the 1950s and early 60s.
Who was Elvis?
400
FDR's vision for the war was to provide these to the world. Freedom of speech and religion and freedom from want and fear.
What are the Four Freedoms?
400
The US's main strategy for the Cold War. We must keep Communism where it is. Designed by George Kennan.
What is Containment?
400
The hottest spot in the Cold War. Sight of Walls, Airlifts, and speeches.
What is Berlin?
500
US General in the Pacific, he also put down the Bonus Army, and was a major protagonist in the Korean War before he was sacked by Truman.
Who was MacArthur?
500
US President who succeeded JFK. He seriously escalated the Cold War. His wife had the super-cool name of Lady Bird.
Who was LBJ?
500
The US, USSR, and the UK.
What are the Big 3?
500
Orchestrated by Joe McCarthy, this eponymous event was a search for Communists in the US government.
What is McCarthyism?
500
MacArthur's greatest strategic victory occurred here in Korea.
Yes, this is super hard, deal with it.