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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 of | Containment |
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 China | Mao Ze Dong |
Replaced Stalin as the communist dictator of the Soviet Union | Nikita Khrushchev |
He was president during Desert Storm and the father of our last president | George W. Bush Sr. |