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| Germany used the blitzkrieg strategy to invade the country of ________. | Poland |
| _______ was the American president for most of World War II. He was elected to four terms as president, more than any other person in U.S. history! | FDR |
| The deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target is known as _________. | kamikaze |
| This reporter/newsman, ________, introduced two innovations to the news industry in the 1950's; on-scene reporting & interviewing. | Edward R. Murrow |
| The name of a type of U.S. spy plane during the 1950's was the ______. One was shot down over the Soviet Union while on a mission. | U-2 |
| This 1954 Supreme Court case declared separate was not equal. It overturned the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson decision. It required public schools to be integrated with "all deliberate speed." | Brown vs. Board |
| The _______ was a military alliance formed in July of 1955 by the Soviet Union with other Eastern European countries. It was a Communist response to NATO. | Warsaw Pact |
| The _______ were an Americans couple who were accused of giving secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviets. They were found guilty & sentenced to death leaving behind two sons. | Rosenbergs |
| The United States, Great Britain, France, Canada, and many others composed the ________ during World War II. | Allied Powers |
| Japan, Germany, and Italy composed the ________ during World War II. | Axis Powers |
| The granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep peace is known as . | appeasement |
| Lightning war is known as . It was the military tactic that Hitler used to invade Poland. | blitzkrieg |
| ________ was the U.S. officer who headed the American occupation of Japan at the conclusion of World War II. He was also the general in charge of our attempt to take the Phillipines back from Japan. | Douglas MacArthur |
| ________ was the author of "The Great Gatsby". He and his wife Zelda exemplified the "living life to the fullest" motto of the Roaring 1920's. | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| ________ was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was from Atchison, Kansas. | Amelia Earhart |
| This New Deal program still exists today. It offers supplemental income for retired workers, the unemployed, and income for those with disabilities. It is called the _______. | Social Security Act |
| The first unmanned artificial satellite to go above the friction of the earth’s atmosphere was named _______. | Sputnik |
| The 1896 Supreme Court case, ________, declared “separate but equal”. | Plessy vs. Ferguson |
| ________ refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama to a white man. This act started the boycott of Montgomery, Alabama buses and sparked the civil rights movement in the United States. | Rosa Parks |
| The unprecedented population explosion in the United States after World War II (1946-1964) was called the _______. These people compose the largest generation in our nation’s history. | baby boom |
| ________ created a vaccine for polio. | Jonas Salk |
| ________ was president during the 1920's and believed the "business of America was business". He did not want the government to interfere in any way with economics. He was known as "Silent Cal". | Calvin Coolidge |
| The ______ involved the corrupt handling of governent land (set aside for conservation) to extract oil. | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| The ______ was a New Deal program that hired young men to plant trees, build trails through national parks, etc. | CCC |
| The ________ prohibited the manufacture, sale, transportation, and consumption of alcohol. It was passed in 1920. | 18th Amendment |
| ________ was president in the early 1920's. He had a vision for America to "return to normalcy" after World War I. | Warren G. Harding |
| In his book, _______, Hitler divides humans into two categories; the master races and the inferior race. | Mein Kampf |
| ________ was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II. He killed 8-15 million Soviets who he saw as "enemies" of the state. | Joseph Stalin |
| The deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, national, or religious group is known as _______. | genocide |
| The ________ was the planned invasion of Cuba. The CIA trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in the hopes it would create a massive uprising & would overthrow Fidel Castro. | Bay of Pigs |
| The _______ was a structure built during the Cold War to separate East Berlin (communist) from West Berlin (non-communist). | Berlin Wall |
| _________ was a new policy under JFK that would build our nation’s nonnuclear forces (the military) so that we would have more options in an international crises. | flexible response |
| The __________ took place in October of 1962. It was when the Soviet Union sent nuclear missiles & other weapons to Cuba and aimed the weapons at the U.S. | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| The goal of the top secret Manhattan Project was to develop an ___________for possible use to bring about an end to World War II. The Manhattan Project was successful and developed a uranium and a plutonium version. | atomic bomb |
| ________________ is the former Nazi German death camp in occupied Poland. Approximately 1.1 million people were killed here. It was the largest of the six death camps. Due to the selection process upon arrival, some were spared initially and used as labor. | Auschwitz Birkenau |
| The __________policy during World War II allowed the United States to sell materials for the war effort to Allied nations at war with Germany. The countries would have to pay cash for the war materials and assume the risk of transporting the war materials back to Europe on their own ships. | Cash and Carry |
| ___________ was the name given to the June 6, 1944 amphibious invasion of the beaches at Normandy in German-occupied France by troops from the United States, Canada, the Great Britain. | D-Day |
| The ____________were Nazi mobile killing units that murdered Jews and others as Germany advanced east towards Russia. 1.5 million people of the 11 million who died in the Holocaust died this way. | einsatzgruppen |
| A ________________was a place used by the Nazis to forcibly segregate the Jewish population from others. It was a temporary solution until the death camps were operational. | ghettoes |
| The term ____________is German for "living room/living space" and was one of the primary goals of the Nazi Party...to have more living room/living space for the Aryan people. | lebenrsaum |
| The many programs of the ____________aimed to provide relief, reform, and recovery to the United States during the Great Depression. | New Deal |
| _____________ is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. The Nazi Party, specifically Joseph Goebbels, were masters of spinning this and using it to influence the people of Germany. | propaganda |
| The ______________was widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States, the first in the 1920s and the next in the 1950s. | Red Scare |
| _____________ was the cyanide-based pesticide used by the Nazis in gas chambers to murder Jews, Romas/Gypsies, and others. | zyklon-b |
