2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt World War II Cold War To Present Famous People Vocabulary Hodge Podge
Germany, Italy & Japan
What were the Axis Powers?
European and Pacific.
What are theatres?
The “lightning strike” strategy used by Germany when invading Poland.
What is Blitzkrieg?
Locations were the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb
Where is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The Systematic killing of over 6 million Jews.
What was the Holocaust?
The tension and the struggle between democratic and communist countries that begins after World War II.
What was the Cold War?
International peacekeeping organization created in 1945.
What was the United Nations?
Became known as the symbol of the Cold War.
What was the Berlin Wall?
The closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Jewish nation created in Palestine.
What is Israel?
He made the decision to use the Atomic Bomb during World War II.
Who President Harry S. Truman?
His death is considered to be the “spark” that started World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
He was the British Prime Minister during World War II.
Who was Winston Churchill?
He replaced Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, & Fidel Castro.
Who were communist leaders during the Cold War?
Loyalty to one’s own country
What is Nationalism?
An agreement to stop fighting.
What is an armistice?
An arrangement in which a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task.
What is an Assembly Line?
The systematic killing of an entire people.
What is Genocide?
The use of force or threats to frighten people or governments to change their policies.
What is terrorism?
Code Name for the Allied invasion of Normandy
What was D-Day Or Operation Overlord?
Cloth material produced during the Cottage Industry
What were textiles?
Name of the plan to develop an atomic bomb
What was the Manhattan Project?
Name of the spirited race to claim colonies in Africa.
What was the Scramble for Africa?
Military Restrictions, Reparation, War Guilt, League of Nations.
What were major provisions of the Treaty of Versailles?