Pre-WWII
What is the foreign policy strategy to let your opponent get what they want in order to avoid conflict?
Appeasement
Which ruler led Italy?
Mussolini
What country was in charge of reforming Japan?
The United States
Who was in the Cold War?
Soviet Union and United States
Which cities were the atomic bombs set on?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What was the immediate spark of WWII?
Invasion of Poland
What battle was notorious for Kamikaze?
Okinawa
What countries emerged as the two new global superpowers?
Soviet Union and United States
Which conflicting ideologies fueled the Cold War?
Communism v Capitalism
What was the Manhattan Project?
The secret development of the Atomic Bomb
What document that ended WWI contribute to the start of WWII?
The Treaty of Versailles
What city battle resulted in 2 million casualties?
What countries did the Marshall Plan aid?
All western European countries resisting communism
Why was it called The Cold War?
There was no actual fighting
What was the Domino Theory in the Cold War?
One country falls to communism, the surrounding countries will fall into communism
What demilitarized zone did Hitler take control of?
Rhineland
What was the approach to defeating the Axis Powers?
Europe First
Describe how the Berlin Airlift was successful
What was the Iron Curtain?
An ideological border that separates and shadows communist East Europe from Western Europe
What kind of camps were Japanese Americans sent to?
Internment Camps
What two countries were originally in the Allied Powers?
France and Britain
Why did the United States drop the bomb?
To end the war quicker
Describe North and South Korea before WWII
It was one country
What policy did the Long Telegram talk about?
Containment
Which national hero became president after the president who dropped the atomic bomb?
Eisenhower