WWII
How did the US pay for the increased costs of WWII?
Higher taxes
What is one cultural contribution from Japan to the US or the US to Japan
Many answers
Which half of Korea was Communist and invaded first in the Korean War?
North Korea
Which conference had the Soviet Union joining in the war on Japan in exchange for Communism spreading in Manchuria
The Yalta Conference
What were the names of the two nuclear bombs?
Little Boy and Fat Man
What was the deadliest landing beach on D-Day?
Omaha
What was the name for Japanese mega-corporations that were broken by occupying Americans?
Zaibatsu
Why did China join in the Korean War
America got too close to its borders
Which international organization was created as a defense against possible future Soviet aggression?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO
What was the name of the proposed Operation that was going to fight Japan with regular war and predicted millions of casualties?
Operation Downfall
What was the final major German offensive in WWII?
Battle of the Bulge
Which US General was entrusted with the responsibility of occupying Japan?
General Douglas Macarthur
Who won the Korean War?
Neither, it is technically still going.
What do we call the Allies' solution when the Soviet Union blockaded Berlin?
The Berlin Airlift
What were the 4 most important countries in the early United Nations?
US, Great Britain, Soviet Union, China
What government organization handled rationing and resource management?
Office of Price Administration or OPA
What conference split Germany and the city of Berlin into districts occupied by different Allied countries
Potsdam Conference
What is the Korean War often called?
The Forgotten War
Organization of Communist Eastern European Nations
Warsaw Pact
What big American secret did Stalin know before Truman?
The Manhattan Project
How many Japanese carriers were sunk at the Battle of Midway?
4
What Article of the new Japanese constitution prevented them from having an active military, the "peace clause"
Article 9
What was the deadliest battle of the Korean War?
Battle of Imjin River
What country did the Soviet Union take over with military force, scaring the Western world?
Czechoslovakia
What famous American figure supported the Nazis leading up to the WWII?
Charles Lindbergh