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100
This leader condemned the policy of appeasement as likely to lead to war.
Who is Winston Churchill?
100
The top-secret program that built an atomic bomb World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
100
An era of high tension and bitter rivalry known between the United States and the Soviet Union following the end of World War II.
What is the Cold War?
100
It is an effort to persuade a group of people to adopt or support certain ideas, attitudes, or actions.
What is propaganda?
100
As the United States mobilized for war, this state became home to more military bases than any other state in America.
What is California?
200
The Republican Senator from Wisconsin who led the attack against would be communist Americans
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
200
In April, 1949 the United States and six other nations joined Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to create this new military alliance that proclaimed an attack against one of the member nations would be considered an attack against all.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
200
This refers to the hundreds of Native Americans of the Navajo nation who served in World War II in the marines who helped transmit vital information about troop movements, enemy positions, etc.; helping the Allies win many major battles.
What is are code talkers?
200
An economic and political system in which governments own the means of production and control economic planning.
What is communism?
200
In 1940 Japan formed a military alliance with Germany and Italy.
Who are the Axis Powers?
300
The Japanese Nationalist and General who took control of Japan during World War II; and was later tried and executed for war crimes.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
300
Representatives in 50 nations met in San Francisco, CA to encourage cooperation among nations and to prevent future wars.
What is the United Nations(UN)?
300
A system of government that focuses on the good of the state rather than on the individual citizens.
What is fascism?
300
A part or division.
What is a sector?
300
The Act passed by Congress in December, 1940 that allowed the United States government to send weapons to Great Britain, regardless of their ability to pay.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
The leader of the Nationalist Government in China who had been a loyal friend of the US during World War II; and who fled to mainland China for the island of Taiwan in 1949?
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek?
400
The committee established to investigate the full range of radical groups in the United States and investigate the possible threat of communism.
What is the House Un- American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
400
A segregated unit of African Americans who were the first ever to receive training as pilots in the United States military during World War II.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
400
The policy in which a nation avoids entanglement in foreign wars.
What is isolationism?
400
The Act passed by Congress in 1943 which gave the president the power to take over vital industries in the event of strikes.
What is the Smith- Connally Act?
500
He led the Communist takeover of China and defeated the Nationalist government.
Who is Mao Zedong?
500
A United States financial aid program to rebuild the economies of European countries in order to create stable conditions for democratic governments.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
In 1944 it is the World War II battle between Germany and the Allied Forces when the German advance created a "bulge" in the Allied battle lines; but the Allies eventually prevailed(won).
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
500
Giving in to aggressive demands to maintain peace.
What is appeasement?
500
In 1941 it was a statement of American and British goals for the defeat of the Nazis, and their vision for the postwar world.
What is the Atlantic Charter?