Congress passed the _____________ (1935-1937) that outlawed
weapons sales to nations at war
& required trade during wartime
to be done on foreign ships
What is Neutrality Act?
100
Germany used_________ tactics to
dominate Eastern & Western
Europe
What is blitzkrieg?
100
In August 1945, the USA dropped
atomic bombs on ______ & ________
The Allies used napalm to firebomb
Dresden, Germany & Tokyo, Japan
Germany bombed London & Japan
attacked Pearl Harbor
What is Hiroshima & Nagasaki?
100
The Cold War was an era of
distrust & hostility between the
____ & _____ from 1945-______
What is the USA and USSR from 1945-1991
100
The U.S. created the
___________: offered
$13 billion to help rebuild
post-war Europe
What is Marshall Plan?
200
The ____________ allowing the
U.S. to send war supplies to
Allied nations & transport goods
to Europe on armed U.S. ships
What is Lend-Lease Act?
200
Alamein
in 1942 & then pushed the
Axis Powers out of Africa
In 1945, _________ was
captured & executed by
the Italian resistance
agreed to fight the Axis
Powers in North Africa
Who is Mussolini?
200
After Germany surrendered, the
USA, Britain, & USSR met at
Stalin broke his promise at Yalta &
began pressuring Eastern European
countries to become _________
What is Communist?
200
It was an era of competing
ideologies: The USA promoted
_______ and _______ while the
USSR tried to spread communism
What is democracy and capitalism?
200
In 1948, the USSR used military
force to turn ____________ to
communism; This led to fears
that Stalin would use similar
tactics in Western Europe
What is Czechoslovakia?
300
FDR secretly drafted the ___________ with Churchill: planned a
war strategy if the USA entered
WWII & a post-war United Nations
What is Atlantic Charter?
300
The Soviet victory at _________ was a turning point
in World War II because the Russians began
pushing towards Germany from the East by 1943
What is Stalingrad?
300
In 1939, __________
wrote U.S. President
Franklin Roosevelt
about the potential to
build a nuclear weapon
Who is Albert Einstein?
300
The Cold War was a conflict of _________
between the USA & Soviet Union
What is ideology?
300
In 1949, the USA formed
the _____________________:
a military alliance among
democratic countries
What is North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)
400
The Japanese attack on _________ on Dec 7, 1941 brought
the USA into World War II
What is Pearl Harbor?
400
On April 30, 1945,
_______ committed suicide
On May 9, 1945, the
German government
signed an unconditional
surrender to the Allies
Who is Hitler
400
In 1947, the U.S. began a policy of ________
to stop the spread of Communism by the USSR
What is Containment?
400
The USA stopped the
spread of Communism into
South Korea, but in 1954,
Communist ____________
began a war to gain
independence for Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
500
On Dec 8, Congress declared
war on _________
On Dec 11, ________ & ________
declared war on the U.S.
What is Japan, Germany and Italy?
500
Operation Overlord
(called _________) in June
1944 was the largest land
& sea attack in history
What is D-Day?
500
Name the dictators/emperor of Italy, Germany, and Japan
Who is Mussolini, Hitler, and Hirohito?
500
When the USSR began
pressuring Greece & Turkey to
turn communist, the USA
created the Truman Doctrine:
U.S. economic & military aid
to any country threatened by communism
What is Truman Doctrine?
500
Since the 1930s, Communist
___________ fought democratic
leaders for control of China
In 1949, _____ gained control &
turned China to communism