ww2 europe
Hitler's policy of taking over neighboring lands and uniting German-speaking peoples was known as this.
What is expansionism (or territorial expansion)?
Japan attacked this U.S. naval base on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This term described the division between Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This war began when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950.
What is the Korean War?
This is the country that split off from the peoples republic of China that the United States has promised to defend its sovrengity
Taiwan
This nation declared independence in May 1948.
What is Israel?
This 1938 agreement gave Germany the Sudetenland in hopes of preventing war.
What is the Munich Agreement?
The U.S. strategy of capturing selected islands while bypassing others was called this.
What is island hopping?
The U.S. policy of preventing the spread of communism was called this.
What is containment?
This Communist leader led North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This Communist leader emerged as the leader of China after the Long March.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This Egyptian leader nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser?
Germany's rapid attack strategy using tanks, aircraft, and infantry was called this.
What is blitzkrieg?
Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed into enemy ships were known as these.
What are kamikazes?
This U.S. aid program provided billions of dollars to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
What country did the United states invade Vietnam for?
France
This event from 1934–1935 helped Mao gain control of the Communist Party.
What is the Long March?
This Iranian religious leader led the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?
The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was known by this code name.
What is Operation Barbarossa?
The battle where the United States sank four Japanese aircraft carriers was this one.
What is the Battle of Midway?
This 1944 international agreement established the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and a global economic system designed to promote trade and prevent another Great Depression.
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement?
The strategy that assumed nuclear war would destroy both sides was called this.
What is Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)?
On October 1, 1949, Mao proclaimed this new nation.
What is the People's Republic of China?
This Iraqi dictator invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
This battle in 1942–1943 marked Germany's first major defeat and a turning point in Europe.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
These two Japanese cities were struck by atomic bombs in August 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This military alliance was formed in 1949 by the United States and Western European nations.
What is NATO?
This Soviet leader introduced Glasnost and Perestroika in the 1980s.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Mao's economic program from 1958–1962 that caused massive famine was called this.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This terrorist organization carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks.
What is al-Qaeda?