1. Semester Exam Study Part II Answers

2. A-bombs dropped on ? (cities) Hiroshima & Nagasaki

3. Sudetenland Hitler demanded this area from Czechoslovakia

4. Japanese-Americans internment camps Pres. Roosevelt set these camps up (claimed it was for national security)

5. Pearl Harbor attack (month, day, year) Dec. 7, 1941

6. Country invaded (started war) Poland was invaded by Germany

7. appeasement Giving in to an aggressor to keep peace

8. blitzkrieg Germany’s new military strategy during WWII (“lightning war”)

9. Manhattan project This secret group developed the A-bomb

10. The Great Depression (country) U.S. Great Depression started a worldwide depression

11. Germany’s last attempt at victory Battle of the Bulge

12. Germany & inflation Germany caused inflation (value of the $ decreases) by printing more money

13. V-E Day Victory in Europe Day Pres. Truman declared this when the Nazis surrendered

14. Capital split in Germany Berlin (into 4 zones)

15. 2 issues discussed at the Yalta Conference What govt. Poland should have How to divide Germany

16. Berlin Airlift Started because Stalin was blocking Allied access (including supplies) to West Berlin

17. Beginning year for the Cold War 1945 (when WWII ended)

18. NATO This organization was formed and its members agreed that “an armed attack against one or more of them…shall be considered an attack against them all.”

19. Vietnam (dividing line) 17 th parallel

20. Warsaw Pact Organization formed in 1955 and consisted of the Soviet Union and its satellite nations

21. Mao Zedong He established a communist govt. in China

22. Viet-cong These were communist guerrillas in South Vietnam

23. Israel gain statehood (year) 1948

24. Korean War (cause & end) Cause- when North Korea crossed the 38 parallel End- Korea is still divided at the 38 th parallel

25. Bay of Pigs invasion (and who they tried to overthrow) Disaster for the U.S. happened when the air strike failed to destroy Cuba’s air power & the Cuban exiles were captured Tried to overthrow Castro

26. Ending year for the Cold War 1991

27. The Berlin Wall (and year torn down) Was built to prevent East Germans from escaping into West Germany 1989

28. Containment of ? communism

29. Cuban Missile Crisis Started because the Soviet Union was moving nuclear missiles to Cuba

30. Ho Chi Minh Leader of North Vietnam

31. Germany (split into how many zones) 4

32. Ngo Dinh Diem Leader of South Vietnam