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Event that caused Great Britain to declare war against Germany.
What is the invasion of Poland?
100

The extermination of a race

What is Genocide?

100
Leader of Germany during WWII
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
U.S. policy of stopping the spread of communism.
What is containment?
100
Symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WWII.
What is the iron curtain?
200
Event that caused the U.S to enter WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor attacked by Japan?
200
Yielding to an enemy's demands in order to maintain peace.
What is appeasement?
200
President of U.S. during most of WW II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
200
The competition to develop and build greater weapons of mass destruction.
What is an Arms Race?
200
U.S. promise to assist any nation threatened by communist takeover.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300

Country that lost a lot during both world wars. Was invaded twice by Germany

What is France?

300
Great Britain, Soviet Union, China, France, United States
Who are the Allies?
300
U.S. President that made the decision to drop the atomic bomb in Japan.
Who is Harry Truman?
300

Event that signaled the closest the world has com to nuclear war

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

300

Structure that separated the city of Berlin from 1961-1989

What is the Berlin Wall?

400
June 6, 1944; Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in northern France.
What is D-Day?
400
Italy, Germany and Japan
Who are the Axis Powers?
400

Prime Minister of England throughout the majority of WWII.

Who is Winston Churchill?

400
Series of tensions and hostilities between US and USSR; not an actual shooting war.
What is the Cold War?
400

Political ideologies at conflict during the Cold War.

What is Democracy and Communism?

500

August 1945; this act solidified Allies victory

Atomic Bomb-Hiroshima

500

Organization formed at the end of WW2 to replace The League of Nations with effective diplomacy

What is the United Nations?

500

Emperor of Japan during WW2

Who is Hirohito?

500

Identify  the only 5 nations on planet earth that are communist

What are China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and Cambodia?

500

President of the U.S. during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Who is JFK?