QUIZ – MODERN U.S.

Attitude of Americans toward European affairs in the 1930s

isolationism

Official policy of the United States toward European conflicts in the 1930s

neutrality

Leader of fascist Italy

Mussolini

Leader of Nazi Germany

Hitler

Military leader of Japan during WWII

Tojo

Emperor of Japan during WWII

Hirohito

First Act of Japanese aggression during the 1930s

Invasion of Manchuria

How the U.S. attempted to stop Japanese aggression (1930s)

embargo

The agreement that Hitler broke by invading Czechoslovakia

Munich Pact

The German action that began World War II

Invasion of Poland

The new German style of war

blitzkrieg

FDR’s first effort to aid Britain with weaponry

“cash and carry”

Program of “ships for bases”

Lend-lease

The statement of Allied Purpose signed by FDR and Churchill

Atlantic Charter

1941– What the U.S. was attacking before being attacked

German submarines

The event that brought the U.S. into WWII

Pearl Harbor

What Americans were encouraged to buy to support WWII

War bonds

What Americans were encouraged to develop in their backyards to support WWII

Victory gardens

The limiting of consumer goods during WWII

rationing

Character who represented women’s role in WWII

Rosie the Riveter

Labor leader who fought for non-discrimination in war time employment

Philip Randolph

Immigrants who were encouraged to fill farm jobs during WWII

Mexicans

What African American soldiers experienced in the army

segregation

Treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII

internment

Supreme court case that made Japanese internment constitutional

Korematsu

The “Big Three” during WWII

U.S., Great Britain, U.S.S.R.

Agreement the Soviet Union had signed with Germany in 1939

Non-Aggression Pact

U.S. program the Soviet Union utilized after being attacked by Germany

Lend - lease

What the Soviet Union kept asking for between 1942 and 1944

A second front

The British Air force

RAF

Germany’s effort to force Britain into surrender

Battle of Britain

Britain and U.S. delayed the invasion of France in order to build these

Bombers

What the U.S. was trying to protect by launching Operation Torch

Middle East oil fields

The battle that turned the tide on the eastern front of WWII

Battle of Stalingrad

Who took control of the Italian peninsula after Italy surrendered

Germany

Code name for the invasion of Normandy

Operation Overlord

The last German offensive

The Battle of the Bulge

The U.S. strategy in the Pacific during WWII

Island Hopping

1942– Naval battle that put Japan on the defensive

Battle of Midway

Two island battles that showed how costly an invasion of Japan would be

Iwo Jima and Okinawa

Conference at which the U.S. sought Soviet aid in defeating Japan

Yalta

Peninsula into which the Soviet Union moved as soon as the war in Europe was over

Korea

Cities upon which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The area that Soviet troops occupied at the end of WWII

Eastern Europe

The laws that restricted the rights of German Jews

Nuremburg Laws

Organized attacks on Jewish businesses in Germany

Kristallnacht

The term Hitler used to refer to his effort to eliminate the Jews

The final solution

The trials of German war criminals

Nuremburg Trials

What Nazi war criminals claimed in their defense

“We were just following orders”

New nation formed after WWI and immediately recognized by the U.S.

Israel

What the Soviet Union wanted to create by controlling the Eastern European nations

A buffer zone

What the U.S. had hoped would happen in Eastern Europe after WWII

Free elections/democracy

The countries where communist pressures led to the issuing of the Truman Doctrine

Greece and Turkey

Colonial possession that France tried to retain after WWII

Southeast Asia (French Indochina)

How Churchill describe the nations under Soviet domination

“Iron Curtain”

Beginning with Truman, the U.S. policy toward the spread of Communism

containment

Economic support program to rebuild Europe and prevent the spread of communism

Marshall Plan

Economic support program to rebuild Europe and prevent the spread of communism

Marshall Plan

Capital that was divided between the WWII allies

Berlin

How the U.S. foiled Soviet blockade of Berlin

airlift

Its construction became a symbol of the cold war

The Berlin Wall

Military alliance formed to protect Europe from Soviet aggression

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Country that became communist in 1949 after a long civil war

China

Communist leader of China

Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong)

Nationalist Chinese leader who ultimately governed only the island of Taiwan

Chiang Kai-shek

First Cold War armed conflict after WWII

Korean War

What the Korean War was called , rather than “war”

A “police action”

This country’s entrance into the Korean War forced the U.N. troops to the 38th parallel

China

The military alliance formed by the U.S.S.R. and the nations of Eastern Europe

Warsaw Pact

It’s launch began the “space race”

Sputnik

Bill passed to make Americans more competitive in the arms race

National Defense Education Act

What many Americans built in hopes of surviving a nuclear attack

Bomb shelters

Accomplishing this was considered a victory for the U.S. in the space race

Landing a man on the moon (1969)

The U.S. concern about the Soviet Union and communist infiltration in our government was called . . .

The Red Scare

The leader of an anti-communist campaign in Congress

Joseph McCarthy

The technique use by McCarthy in which you repeat falsehood loudly and often

The “Big Lie”

Caribbean island that fell to communism in the 1950s

Cuba

Leader who brought communism to Cuba

Fidel Castro

Failed effort to remove Castro

Bay of Pigs invasion

What the Russians tried to place in Cuba

missiles

President who was able to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis

John F. Kennedy (JFK)

President who was able to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis

John F. Kennedy (JFK)

What was installed in the White House and Kremlin (after missile crisis) to help prevent nuclear war

The “Red Phone” – so called “hot line” telephone link directly between U.S. and U.S.S.R.

Countries supported by Soviet Union in the Middle East

Arab nation – especially Iran, Syria, Egypt

Crisis in which the U.S. opposed Britain and France

Suez Canal crisis (1946)

The extension of “containment” to the Middle East is called . . .

The Eisenhower Doctrine

This organization carried out an oil embargo in the 1970s

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

This agreement led to peace between Israel and Egypt

The Camp David Accords

President who brought about the Camp David Accords

Jimmy Carter

Repressive leader of Iran who the U.S. helped to come to power

Shah Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)

Country where a radical Islamic government took 150 American hostage

Iran

The U.S. supported the resistance in this country after a Soviet Invasion in 1979

Afghanistan

What the resistance in Afghanistan eventually became

The Taliban

The most important symbol of the end of the Cold War

The end of the Berlin Wall

This bill to help veterans led to a more educated and productive society

The Serviceman’s Readjustment Act (the “G.I. Bill”)

This bill to help veterans led to a more educated and productive society

The Serviceman’s Readjustment Act (the “G.I. Bill”)

The very large generation born after WWII

The Baby Boomers

This bill enabled the government to construct the interstate highway system

Federal Defense Highway Act

What grew because of increased family and the interstate highway system

suburbs

The group of people that moved north in large numbers during WWII

African-Americans

What racial population shifts led to

“White flight”

Racial tensions in the 1960s led to these

Race riots

The new technology that helped make us a consumer society

television

Antibiotic used successfully during WWII

penicillin

Crippling disease for which Jonas Salk developed a vaccine

polio

These helped to increase crop yields

Pesticides and chemical fertilizers

Her publication of The Feminine Mystique encouraged the feminist movement

Betty Friedan