Start of World War II
The event that led the United States to enter World War II.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
What is anti-Semitism?
This US general was fired after challenging President Truman during the Korean War.
Who is Douglas McArthur?
The name of the government agency created during the "Space Race."
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (or NASA)?
The nickname for the domestic programs of the Johnson administration.
What is the Great Society?
Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The forced relocation and confinement of Japanese-Americans to camps.
What is internment?
Nickname given to the tactic of spreading fear and making baseless charges.
What is McCarthyism?
What is brinkmanship?
Programs that trains and sends volunteers to poor nations all over the world.
What is the Peace Corps?
This group of Americans took industrial jobs during the war.
What are women?
This city was the first to be destroyed with an atomic bomb.
What is Hiroshima?
The US plan to rebuild Western Europe after the war.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The first artificial satellite; launched by the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik?
This man came to power in Cuba through guerilla warfare.
Who is Fidel Castro?
The top-secret project to build an atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project.
The killing of millions of Jews and other groups by the Nazis
What is the Holocaust?
What is the baby boom?
This politician used television to downplay the "Checker's Scandal" during the 1952 election.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Influential Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is Earl Warren?
"Lightning War"
What is Blitzkrieg?
What id D-Day?
The foreign policy that aimed to stop communism from spreading.
What is containment?
This man emerged as the leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death.
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
The failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban socialist government of Fidel Castro
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?