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100
Event that caused Great Britain to declare war against Germany.
What is the invasion of Poland?
100
U.S. military strategy for the Pacific Theatre.
What is Island Hopping?
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. Hint - Greece and Turkey

What is the Truman Doctrine?

300

When Japan surrendered after the dropping of the atomic bombs, what was this day known as?

V-J Day
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

What plan gave 13 billion dollars in economic aid to the countries in Western Europe.

Marshall Plan

300

Americans discovered that Soviet nuclear missiles were about to be installed in _____________.

This led to the __________ Missile Crisis

Cuba


Cuban

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
Publicly accusing someone of subversive activities without evidence to back up the charges.
What is McCarthyism?
500

Battle that was the "turning point" in the war in the Pacific. 

Battle of Midway

500
U.S. government project that worked on developing the atomic bomb to be first dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
What is the Manhattan Project?
500

In  Korematsu v. United States (1944), what did Korematsu believe was unconstitutional? 

Executive Order 9066 (Japanese Internment)

500
Eastern European nations that were controlled by USSR.
What are satellite nations?
500

At what conference did Stalin promise free elections in Poland when he met with U.S and British Leaders (at the end of WWII)?

Yalta Conference