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Presidential Fun Facts!
Random Shtuff
Psh...Neutrality
100
What two countries were allies in WWII, but afterwards became opposing world powers?
US & USSR
100
What pact, signed in 1928 by 62 nations, outlawed war but had no major reinforcement mechanism?
Kellogg-Briand Pact
100
What president was the first (and last) to hold the presidency for more than 8 years?
FDR
100
Who coined the term "Iron Curtain"
Winston Churchill
100
America hoped to stay out of WWII originally, and passed the Neutrality Acts of 35,36,37. Name at least 2 things these acts did.
Prohibited sale of arms to belligerent nations, prohibited loans to belligerent nations, non-military goods must be cash and carry, banned involvement in Spanish Civil War
200
What country pulled America into WWII with their extreme act of aggression?
Japan
200
What treaty hoped to limit the amount of battleships on ocean waters?
Five Power Treaty
200
What president wore relatively large glasses, and was extremely important in US foreign policy, executing the Berlin Airlift?
Truman
200
The Yalta Conference was for shaping WWII, and held between what three nations?
US, UK, USSR
200
Which act was a response to the German invasion of Poland?
Neutrality Act of 1939
300
The Manhattan Project led to the creation of the atomic bomb which was dropped on what two Japanese cities, essentially ending WWII?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
300
At the end of WWII, America and the Soviet Union decided to partition a number of countries into northern and southern portions, and hopefully reunite them. Name 3 of these countries.
Germany, Korea, Vietnam
300
What president had to repeat his freshman year of high school, and was also famous for his policy of massive retaliation?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
300
In response to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), the Soviets created what?
Warsaw Pact
300
Cash-and-carry weapons were allowed to be sold to democracies based on what act?
Neutrality Act of 1939
400
What nation was divided at the 38th parallel before and after a war there?
Korea
400
What plan hoped that by giving Germany money to rebuild, the US would then have that money returned by European debts being payed off?
Dawes Plan
400
Which president was an avid golfer, and reduced the military budget by scaling back army and navy spending?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
400
The height of the Red Scare (created in part by Joe McCarthy) was when what Jewish couple were claimed to be communists?
Rosenbergs
400
What were the Four Freedoms in the Four Freedoms Speech?
Freedom from Want, Freedom from Fear, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech/the Press
500
China became a communist nation after the forces of Mao Zedong defeated those of who?
Shang Kai-shek
500
In the Geneva Summit of 1955, the US and Soviets agreed to stop testing what?
Nuclear Weapons
500
Which President, whose middle initial does not stand for anything, was famous for his policy of containment?
Truman
500
What conference warned Japan to surrender or it would face immense consequences?
Potsdam Conference
500
Lend-Lease allowed for what?
President could give military supplies to any country he deemed vital to the defense of the US