WWI
The West Between the Wars
WW II
The Cold War
Important Dates
100
Type of warfare / strategy used throughout World War I
Trench Warfare
100
Who was the President of the US at the start of the Great Depression?
President Hoover
100
What was the Blitz?
the British term for the German air raids on British cities and towns during World War II
100
What was the Truman Doctrine?
U.S. promise to support countries fighting communism
100
Dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on the Japanese cityof Hiroshima
August 6th, 1945
200
land between the trenches
No-Man's Land
200
Leader of Spain, he recieved support from German during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s?
Francisco Franco
200
Define - Island Hoping
US Pacific Theater military policy of jumping from one island to another on the way towards Japan
200
U.S. policy to rebuild war-torn Europe
Marshall Plan
200
Signing of the Armistic, ending the combat of World War I
November 11, 1918
300
What was the result of the trench warfare on the western front?
Stalemate
300
Fascist Dictator of Italy?
Benito Mussolini
300
What land area within the country of Czecholsovakia did Hitler demand and then receive because of the British and French policy of appeasement?
The Sudetenland
300
A symbol of the Cold War constructed to stop the flow of people from East Germany into West Berlin
Berlin Wall
300
Germany's invasion of Poland
September 1, 1939
400
What specific event led to the British declaring War on Gernmany in 1914?
Germany invaded Belgium
400
What did the Nuremberg Laws, created by the Nazis, do to some people in Germany?
Stripped Jews of their German citizenship and civil rights
400
Japanese for “divine wind”; a suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S. fighting ships at sea
Kamikaze
400
First Communist Leader of China
Mao Zedong
400
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
June 28th, 1914
500
What did the Zimmerman Note promise to the Mexican government if they supported Germany and attack the US?
the return of Mexican lands held by the United States
500
What was the destructive rampage against German Jews led by the Nazis in November of 1938 called?
Kristallnacht or Night of Broken Glass
500
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
to destroy the U.S. fleet in the Pacific and make the United States accept Japanese domination of the Pacific
500
C.I.A trained ex-Cubans attempted invasion of Castro’s communist Cuba
Bay of Pigs Invasion
500
D-Day, World War II Allies invasion of mainland Europe
June 6th, 1944