US History Final Review WWII, Cold War, Civil Rights Movement Flashcards


What �plan� did the United States give aid to England before
we entered into WWII?

Lend Lease Plan


Who was President of the US when Pearl Harbor was bombed and
for most of WWII?

FDR


Who became the President of the United States after FDR died
while in office and made the decision to drop the atomic bombs
Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Truman


Who was the leader of the USSR during WWII?

Stalin


Who was the fascist leader of Italy during WWII?

Mussolini


Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII?

Churchill


Who was the fascist leader of Germany during WWII?

Hitler


What was the name of the German air force?

Luftewaffe


What technique did the Nazi�s use to quickly take control of
western Europe that involve speed, tanks, aircraft and well
organized ground troops?

Blitzkreig

During WWII the USSR (Russia), England and the United States were all
a part of what alliance?

Allied Powers

During WWII Germany, Italy and Japan were all a part of what alliance?

Axis Powers


Who was the Allied Power�s Supreme
Commander and the man behind Operation Overlord (D-Day)?

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower


Who was the commander of the US Pacific front during WWII?

Gen. Douglas MacArthur


What was the policy followed by England and France that
allowed Hitler to build up his military and take territory before
England and France finally declared war on Hitler?

appeasement

In what Battle did Hitler attempt and fail at taking control of Great Britain

Battle of Britain

Shortly before Germany surrendered, what did Hitler do to himself
instead of surrendering?

committed suicide


When was VE Day (the official ratification of Germany�s surrender)?

08-May-45

After WWII the Allies demilitarized and ____________ Germany into
four to reconstruct it.

divided


What group of Americans were forced into internment camps in
the Unites States during WWII?

Japanese Americans


What strategy did the US use to regain control of territory
Japan had taken?

island hopping


What strategy did the Japanese turn to near the end of the war
that involved suicide flight missions?

Kamikazes


When did the US drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

06-Aug-45


When was Pearl Harbor attacked by the Japanese?

07-Dec-41


As a result of Pearl Harbor, the US declared war on�

Japan


Where was Operation Overlord fought?

Normandy

The goal of Operation Overlord (i.e. D-Day, Battle of Normandy) was
take back what country from Hitler?

France

What was the name of Hitler's last major offensive against the Allies?

Battle of the Bulge


What battle brought the Allied Forces of the Unites States and
the Soviet Union together in the final defeat of Hitler and Nazi Germany?

Battle of Berlin

The only two atomic bombs used in war have been dropped on Hiroshima and

Nagasaki

Japan officially surrendered to Douglas MacArthur on board the USS
____________ in the Pacific.

Missouri


Where were Jews sent by the Nazi regime during WWII?

concentration camps

What "ethnic group" did Hitler favor in the building of
Nazi Germany?

Aryans


What event targeting Jewish businesses and synagogues marked
the beginning of the Holocaust?


Kristallnacht


Hitler�s plan to eliminate all Jews was referred to as the
"Final _______________

Solution


Who did Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower force to observe the
atrocities of liberated concentration camps?

local Nazi leaders


What were the names of the trials that put war
criminals on trial after WWII?

Nuremberg


On the home front, Americans helped pay for WWII by purchasing

war bonds

What system was put in place to draft men into service for WWII?

Selective Service


What ships was industrialist Henry Kaiser known for building
during WWII?

Liberty


Where were Japanese Americans forced to live during WWII?

relocation centers


In order to help conserve things like gas, shoes and meat
products, Americans participated in

rationing

What term was used to describe Japanese Americans who were born in
America of American parents born in Japan

Nisei


What was the name of the American "Project" that
developed the first atomic bombs?

Manhattan

The Cold War was "fought" between the United States and the

USSR


What type of economic system does the United States use?

capitalism


What type of economic system did the Soviet Union (USSR) use
during the Cold War?

communism

In pure communist economic systems private ownership and businesses
and industry is

prohibited

Nations around the USSR that they controlled as a part of their
communist buffer zone were called

satellite nations

What body of water were Turkey and Greece close to that made them
strategically important to the US during the Cold War?

Black Sea

What was the name of the "policy" developed by George
Kennan that was intended to stop communism from spreading?

Containment

What "plan" did the US implement to give aid to any
European country that needed help rebuilding after WWII?

Marshall

What was the name of the ideological "war" between the US
and USSR that never actually ended in a direct war between them?

Cold

What event involved British and US planes bringing supplies into West
Berlin during a 327 day blockade set up by Stalin?

Berlin Airlift

What Soviet leader attempted to station nuclear missiles in Cuba in
the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Khrushchev


What phrase, coined by Winston Churchill, was intended to
describe the division between eastern and western Europe during the
Cold War?

Iron Curtain


What peacetime military alliance did the United States enter
into with western powers during the Cold War?

NATO


Who started the Korean War by attacking South Korea on June
25, 1950?

North Korea


At the conclusion of the Korean War, an armistice was signed
between military leaders recognizing that North and South Korean
would again be divided at the ___________ Parallel.

38th

Who was the Republican Senator from Wisconsin that made unsupported
claims about Communists taking over America�s government?

Joseph McCarthy


The weapons buildup between the United States and the Soviet
Union was called

nuclear arms race


What character taught children to �duck and cover� in the
event of an atomic bombing?

Bert the Turtle


What did type of shelter did people build to protect
themselves from a potential nuclear war?

fallout


What was the name of the Soviet built satellite first launched
into orbit around the earth?

Sputnik


What president committed the United States to reaching the
moon before the end of the 1960s?

Kennedy

What was the first manned mission to the moon called?

Apollo 11

What manned mission to the moon ended up being aborted in space due
to oxygen tank explosion?

Apollo 13


Who was the main leader of the Civil Rights Movement during
the 1960s?

Dr. Martin Luther King


What Indian leader influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. with his
belief that non-violent protest could promote significant change?

Gandhi


What landmark case integrated public schools in the United States?

Brown v. Board of Education


What President integrated the US military in 1948?

Truman


Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice and
the attorney who successfully argued the Brown v. Board of
Education case before the Supreme Court?

Thurgood Marshall


Who was the young African American boy from Chicago that was
brutally murdered for making a remark to a white woman in Alabama?

Emmitt Till


What US government branch ruled that the segregation of
Alabama's buses was unconstitutional � ending the bus boycott?

Supreme Court


Who was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955
after she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus?

Rosa Parks


In 1957, nine African American children were selected to
integrate Central High School in what city in Arkansas?

Little Rock


In 1957, what did President Eisenhower do to protect the
Little Rock Nine?

Dwight Eisenhower

What branch of our government has the responsibility of enforcing
laws and rulings of our courts?

Executive


The 24th amendment, passed as a result of the Rights Movement,
prohibited charging what for participating in federal elections?

taxes

The Voter Rights Act of 1965 prohibited what in voting?

racial discrimination

Who did Eisenhower send in to help protect the Little Rock Nine?

101st Airborne Division