WWII
What event caused the USA to enter the war two years after it started?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor, near Honolulu
Approximately how long was the Vietnam War?
20 years
Approximately how long was the Afghanistan War?
20 years
Who were the two major players in the Cold War?
The United States and the Soviet Union
What was the name of the guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic?
The Berlin Wall
What beach were the Canadians sent to capture?
Juno
Why did the U.S. get involved in the Vietnam War?
They did not want Communism to spread in Asia
What triggered the Afghanistan War?
The attacks on 9/11
Who coined the political metaphor "Iron Curtain"?
Winston Churchill
Who was Fidel Castro?
Fidel Castro, Cuban political leader (1959–2008) who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere.
What event caused WWII to end abruptly?
US using first nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities. The Bombing of Nagasaki, August 9, 1945
Who was the President of the United States during the first half of the Vietnam War?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who was the U.S. president when the Afghanistan War began?
George W. Bush
Why was it called the Cold War?
There was no direct military engagement between the United States and the Soviet Union. However, this period was anything but “cold,” as multiple countries experienced internal violence as the U.S. and the Soviets supported competing factions fighting for power.
What happened on D-Day?
The Allied invasion of Normandy, France became the largest amphibious military assault the world has ever seen
Operation Jubilee or the _____ Raid was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on this German-occupied port northern France, during the Second World War. What port was this?
Dieppe
There is debate about who won the Vietnam War. Who won in the sense that they completed their ultimate goal?
Vietnam - the two Vietnams were united under a communist banner in July 1976
What political and religious faction ruled Afghanistan at the time?
The Taliban
What was the Soviet Union's equivalent of the CIA?
The KGB
What is the name given to the genocide of Jewish people during WWII?
The Holocaust
What general commanded the Allied armies for the invasion?
Dwight D Eisenhower, later US president
The results of the Vietnam War influenced what other major event happening at the same time, involving similar parties?
The Cold War
What broad-based militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s and became one of the world’s most notorious terrorist organizations after carrying out the attacks of September 11, 2001?
Al-Qaeda
What policy did President Harry S. Truman create to establish that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces?
The Truman Doctrine, 1947
Since gaining authority to declare war in 1931, Canada has only ever declared once. Which war did this take place?
WWII