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| The first atomic bomb was dropped on _______, Japan on August 6, 1945. | Hiroshima |
| World War II ended in _______. It is also the same year that Hitler killed himself & we dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. | 1945 |
| _______ was president from 1928-1932 and was blamed for the Great Depression. He believed the government should not interfere with the economy and kept waiting for it to correct itself. | Herbert Hoover |
| _______ was a famous baseball player from the 1930's. He played for the Boston Red Sox but was traded to the New York Yankees starting the "Curse of the Bambino". | Babe Ruth |
| The _______ gained enormous popularity, especially in the South during the 1920's & 1930's. The purpose of this group was to purify and glorify the white Anglo-Saxon, Protestant race by criticizing and terrorizing Jews, blacks, and others. | KKK |
| The _______ was one of the largest programs under the New Deal. It set out to help youths, professionals, and other workers and built airports, roads, libraries, schools, and hospitals. | WPA |
| _______ was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. He did this in 1927. | Charles Lindbergh |
| The second atomic bomb was dropped on ______, Japan on August 9, 1945. | Nagasaki |
| A restriction of people's rights to buy an unlimited amount of food or other goods is known as _______. | rationing |
| The code name for the secret development of the atomic bomb was the _______. | Manhattan Project |
| The U.S. policy of _______ was an attempt to block the Soviet spread of communism and their influence by creating alliances & supporting weaker countries. | containment |
| After World War II, Berlin was divided into four parts. The Soviets decided to cut off West Berlin hoping this will force the Western nations to give up the idea of a unified Germany or surrender control of Germany. The response by the United States and Great Britain was called the _______. | Berlin Airlift |
| After World War II, China was having a civil war. The Communists (in the north) were led by _______. | Mao Zedong |
| A political philosophy put into place by Adolf Hitler in Germany was known as _______. | nazism |
| This New Deal program controlled flooding and provided electricity to eastern states. | TVA |
| ________ were women of the 1920's who dressed in short skirts, smoked and drank in public, cut their hair short, and danced the Charleston. | flappers |
| ________ was a policy of the United States after World War I in which we pulled away from involvement in world affairs. | isolationism |
| ________ were people who smuggled liquor into the country and sold it illegally during Prohibition. | bootleggers |
| A ________ is a period of rising stock prices. | bull market |
| FDR used his ________ as a way to communicate about issues of public concern with the American people. | Fireside Chats |
| The signing of the Japanese surrender to end World War II took place on the ________ (this was intentionally done as a tribute to Harry S.Truman's role in ending the war). | U.S.S. Missouri |
| ________ translates to "crystal night", or night of the broken glass. It was November 9, 1938. Nazi storm troopers attacked & destroyed Jewish homes, businesses, & synagogues across Germany. | Kristallnacht |
| The ________, of 1947 said that the U.S. would help support free people throughout the world who were resisting takeovers by “outside pressures” (a.k.a Soviets). | Truman Doctrine |
| The purpose of this Cold War organization, ________ , is to create a defensive military alliance. All countries promised that an attack on one would be regarded as an attack on all. Members of this organization were not communist. | NATO |
| The ________ was a congressional committee created to investigate communism in the U.S. They investigated Hollywood & the film industry. | HUAC |
| The German air force was called the _______. | Luftwaffe |
| The term/name, ________, referenced women working in factories on the homefront during World War II. | Rosie the Riveter |
| _______ occured on September 2, 1945. | V-J Day |
| _______ was the code name for the planned invasion of Europe by the Allies, organized by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower chose Normandy as the invasion sight, rather than Calais, France. | Operation Overlord |
| October 29, 1929 is better known as ________. | Black Tuesday |
