Causes of WWII
This treaty, signed after WWI, punished Germany and helped lead to WWII.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This surprise attack brought the United States into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This genocide resulted in the deaths of six million Jews.
What is the Holocaust?
This term describes the rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after WWII.
What is the Cold War?
This divided city became a symbol of Cold War tensions in Germany.
What is Berlin?
This policy allowed Hitler to take land without resistance from Britain and France.
What is appeasement?
This secret project developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This is the deliberate use of newspapers, radio, and the film to dehumanize enemies and manufacture support for the war.
What is propaganda?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This event involved the U.S. supplying West Berlin by air.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This global economic crisis helped extremist leaders rise to power in Europe.
What is the Great Depression?
This D-Day invasion took place on the beaches of this country.
What is France?
This famous cultural figure symbolized women working industrial jobs.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
This 1947 plan provided economic aid to rebuild Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This war (1950–1953) was fought between North and South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
This type of government, led by dictators like Hitler and Mussolini, rose in Europe before WWII.
What is fascism?
This surprise German offensive in late 1944 was the last major attempt to defeat Allied forces on the Western Front and named for the shape of the Allied line.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
This group was forced into internment camps in the United States.
Who are Japanese Americans?
This speech by Winston Churchill described the division of Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain speech?
This U.S. fear of communists at home led to investigations and blacklists.
What is McCarthyism?
This failed international body, created after WWI, lacked military enforcement power and proved helpless in stopping early acts of aggression by Japan, Italy and Germany.
What is the League of Nations?
This turning point battle in the Pacific stopped Japanese expansion.
What is the Battle of Midway?
This program provided aid to Allied nations before the U.S. entered the war.
What is Lend-Lease?
This military alliance was formed by the U.S. and Western nations in 1949.
What is NATO?
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and USSR closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?