Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Name the country that dropped the bomb, and name the country which was the victim of the bombing.
Dropped: U.S.
Victim: Japan
The leader of the United Kingdom during WWII; coined the term "the Iron Curtain" to describe countries falling to communist influence in Eastern Europe
Winston Churchill
The international organization that was created after WWII; aimed to prevent future wars through diplomacy across all nations
United Nations
True or False: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, there were nuclear weapons that were used by the U.S., Cuba, and the Soviet Union.
False; no weapons were used.
United States
Capitalist
The U.S. dropped bombs on Hiroshima, and then another bomb on Nagasaki 3 days later.
The leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949
Mao Zedong
The military alliance that was created by the United States and Western European countries after WWII
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
The leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962; an ally of Soviet Union who received nuclear weapons
Fidel Castro
China after 1949, and today
Communist
The U.S. dropped leaflets from planes, warning citizens to evacuate.
The attorney general (head lawyer) of the United States during the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Robert Kennedy
The dividing line between communist North and capitalist South Korea, which continues to this day.
The 38th Parallel
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. placed ships in the Caribbean Sea to prevent Russia from moving missiles to Cuba; this is known as a ________.
Naval blockade.
1) North Korea, 2) China
Communist, Communist
Besides the United States, what other countries have used nuclear weapons on a civilian population today?
None.
The leader of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962; America's first Catholic President; The leader of the United States at the end of WWII; decided to drop the bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945
JFK
Harry Truman
A policy which stated that the U.S. needed to stop Communism around the world by providing monetary or military aid to capitalist governments around the world
Containment or Truman Doctrine
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in 1962 when the US privately agreed to remove its own nuclear missiles aimed at the Soviet Union in this country.
Turkey
1) Countries "behind" the Iron Curtain (Poland, Ukraine, East Germany, etc.), 2) Greece, 3) Turkey
Communist, Capitalist, Capitalist
What are the nicknames of the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki according to the U.S. government?
Nagasaki: Fat Man
The leader of the Soviet Union at the end of WWII in 1945 AND the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962
Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev
A policy after WWII in which the US gave over $13 billion dollars to Western Europe in order to help rebuild after the war
Marshall Plan
Prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States tried to invade Cuba and install an new government in something known as the ____ ____ _____ _____
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The authors of the Communist Manifesto, a foundational document which predicted that workers would overthrow the factory owning class, are ______ and ________
Karl Marx & Fredrick Engels