What is the attack of Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941.
100
What does NATO stand for?
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization
100
Why did the US get involved with the Korean War?
What is North Korea invaded South Korea to force it to become Communist.
100
What is the Patriot Act?
What is the act George W. Bush enacted after 9/11 to increase security in the United States. Some claim the act takes away personal liberties as it allows the government to bug suspected terrorists with only a 24 hour waiting period.
100
When was the fall of the Berlin Wall?
What is 1989.
200
On which two cities did the US drop the atomic bomb?
What is Nagasaki and Hiroshima
200
What is the Warsaw Pact?
What is an alliance between Eastern European countries.
200
What was the outcome of the Korean War?
What is the US pushed North Korean forces past the 38th parallel line. It now marks the line between North and South Korea.
200
What is Al Quaeda?
What is a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other Arab volunteers who fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s?
200
What is the domino theory and how did it influence the Vietnam War?
What is the theory that any country touching a communist nation may become communist. This was a major reason for entering the Vietnam War.
300
What was the US strategy used in the Pacific?
What is island hopping?
300
What is McCarthyism?
What is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. Started by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
300
What was the Space Race?
What is the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
300
Name three countries or people on each side of the Syrian Civil War.
Syria: Assad, Iran, Russia--ISIS in a way.
Anti-Assad: Syrian rebels, Kurds, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, US, Jordan
300
This is a group of North Vietnamese Communists who would enter South Vietnamese in the attempts to make them Communist.
What is the Viet Cong.
400
What battle marked Hitler's downfall?
What is the Battle of Stalingrad.
400
Why is the Cold War called "Cold"?
What is because there was not direct fighting between Russia and the Soviet Union. All was indirect fighting.
400
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
400
Explain the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Will voice answer out loud.
400
How did Nationalism influence the Cold War and WWII?
What is (answer will be out loud)
500
Name the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers.
Allied: US, Britain, France, later Russia
Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan (Russia, at first)
500
What is containment?
What is attempting to stop the spread of communism through aid to nations in need
500
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What is Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
500
What are three terrorist groups we discussed other than Al Quaeda?
What is IRA, Hezbollah, Hamas, Aum Shinrikyo, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
500
Who is Mao Zedong?
What is a dictator of China who made the country lean toward Communism.