This is the war tactic used in the Pacific to get to Japan
What is Island Hopping
100
This lady was the American symbol for working women during World War II.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
100
This was a top secret government program that was designed to build the first atomic weapon during WWII
What is the Manhattan Project?
100
This speech was given by Winston Churchill and explained how communism was a threat to the world
What is Iron Curtain Speech
100
This was the first couple that was executed for selling atomic secrets
What is the Rosenbergs
200
This battle was a major naval victory in the pacific front of World War II, impart thanks to our excellent code breaking skills.
What is Midway?
200
This couple was executed after being convicted of selling atomic secrets to the Russians?
Who is the Rosenbergs?
200
This organization gathers foreign intelligence, creates and executes covert military operations, but does not answer to the government or the president directly.
What is CIA
200
This was a speech to remind Americans that we would "protect free loving peoples from tyrannical communist"
What is Truman Doctine
200
This is the name of the Soviet Satellite that orbited the earth
What is Sputnik
300
This would be the turning point of the European Theater and would begin the 2 front invasion of Germany.
What is DDAY
300
An all African American unit of fighter pilots during WWII, they never lost an escort bomber plane.
What is Tuskegee Airmen?
300
AKA The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, it was a bill that gave a wide range of benefits to returning veterans as far as educational, economic, and financial aid.
What is the GI bill
300
This gave billions of dollars in aid to "non-communist" countries
What is the Marshall plan
300
This is the first American to make it to the moon "one small step for man, one giant step for mankind"
What is Neil Armstrong
400
This battle was a major battle between the Soviet Union and Germany. Germany would lose this battle, but both sides would suffer heavy casualties.
What is Stalingrad?
400
A supreme court case that said that Japanese Internment Camps were constitutional
What is Koramatsu V. US
400
This act saw the U.S. give an enormous amount of supplies (helmets, boots, guns, tanks, ships) to the allied powers, eventhough we were not actually fighting in the war ourselves at that time
What is lend-lease Act
400
This theory said that if one country falls to communism, then others will soon follow,
What is the domino theory
400
This was the covert operation to undermine Fidel Castro in Cuba...it failed!
What is Bay of Pigs invasion
500
The last major Island to be taken in the US island hopping strategy. This battle was the largest amphibious battle in the pacific, and would have everything from mass suicide to kamikaze attacks.
What is Okinawa?
500
This man would replace Franklin Roosevelt at the Potsdam Conference, and as President of the U.S after FDR's unfortunate death.
Who is Harry Truman
500
This conference would lead to Roosevelt, Churchhill, and Stalin agreeing to the splitting of post war Germany into 4 divisions
What is the Yalta Conference?
500
This was another name for the second red scare named after a US senator
What is Mcarthyism?
500
This encounter would be the closest thing to nuclear war that the world had ever seen