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