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World History Final Review#3

WWII to Cold War

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The right of Eastern Europeans to choose their own form of government was one of Woodrow Wilson’s?Fourteen Points
This gave It gave Germany a free hand in Poland?Nazi-Soviet Pact
Hitler decided to invade this country for their vast natural resources, thus breaking their pact?Soviet Union
This strategy U.S. strategy in the Pacific that allowed the U.S. to gradually move north toward Japan was called?Island Hopping
The Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea ofContainment
The Luftwaffe attacked ground targets from the air which was usually the first stage of this strategy of the Germans?Blitzkrieg
The Germans changed their tactics by bombing London and other cities in preparing for what operation?Operation Sea Lion
During World War II, the women who worked in U.S. manufacturing plants came to be symbolized by who?Rosie the Riveter
In 1942, what priority did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin set in the war?fighting the war in Europe before Asia
What stopped the German advance during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941?the Russian Winter
What was the code name for atomic bomb research?Manhattan Project
Japanese pilots who crashed into Allied warships were known as?Kamikaze
What aspect of the Cold War arms race made it so terrifying?Stronger weapons
A major goal of this man was to extend equal rights to all Americans?Martin Luther king Jr.
After World War II, the United States offered assistance to war-torn European nations through which of the following?The Marshall Plan
During the Korean War, which nation provided hundreds of thousands of troops to help North Korea?South Korea
Which alliance was dedicated to the security of communist nations in Europe during the Cold War?The Warsaw Pact
The purpose of the SALT talks and the START treaty was?lowering the number of nuclear weapons
What kind of government did Japan adopt after World War II?parlimentary democracy
What was the main goal of the National Liberation Front, or Viet Cong?overthrowing the South Vietnamese government
During the Vietnam War, this turned American public opinion against the war.Tet Offensive
What conflict was called the Soviet Union’s “Vietnam?”Afghanistan
What was the event that took place in Cuba that caused the US to blockade Cuba off from the Soviet union?the Cuban Missile Crisis
84. Who was the President during 1977-1981?Jimmy Carter
85. Who was the president who resigned after a scandal known as “The Watergate Scandal”- his plan was called Vietnamization?Richard Nixon
He was the communist leader of Cuba.Fidel Castro
Communist Leader of Red ChinaMao Ze Dong
Replaced Stalin as the communist dictator of the Soviet UnionNikita Khrushchev
He was president during Desert Storm and the father of our last presidentGeorge W. Bush Sr.


Mr. M. Armstrong

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