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73 Cards in this Set
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When did war world 2 start? |
September 1939 |
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Why did Britain and France want to stay out of the ww2? |
Because the first war had effected them so much |
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What is isolationism? |
Where the nation's wanted to stay out of the war |
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How long did it take Hitler to defeat France? |
Germany tried to defeat France in ww1 for 4 years Hitler did it in 6 weeks |
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What did Germany have control of? |
Most of Europe |
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When did Japan invade china? |
1931 |
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Why did Japan invade china? |
Because Japan needed more natural sources |
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When was the Selective Service Draft? |
1940 |
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What did the Germans do to the Soviet Union in 1941? |
They broke their agreement and then invaded the Soviet Union |
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When was Pearl Harbor? |
December 7th 1941 |
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What was not at the Harbor that the Japanese wanted to hit? |
3 main aircrafts |
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What made the US want to go to war with Japan? |
Pearl Harbor |
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What does Carpet Bombing mean? |
Dropping many bombs on one target area to hit the main target |
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What did Hitler do a week after pearl Harbor? |
He listened to miltary leaders and declared war on the US |
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How much of the German did the Russians kill? |
Up to 90% |
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What kind of code did the Americans use so the Germans could nit read them? |
Navaho Indians |
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How did Americans get to Japan? |
Island hopping |
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Americans fixed warfare ships and planes faster than who? |
The Japanese |
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Who beat George H.W. Bush? |
Bill Clinton |
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What was the Manhattan Project? |
Americans spent millions of dollars to make a super weapon (atomic bomb) Scientists from all over the world even Germany came to create one |
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When did the US drop the first atomic bomb on japan? |
August 8th 1945 |
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After the first atomic bomb was dropped on japan what did the US do 3 days later? |
Dropped a second bomb |
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What is Brain Drain? |
When high education people in a population such as doctors leave |
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Who was George Kennan? |
He wrote the long tell gram from Moscow to America about containment |
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What is containment? |
Countries turning others communist |
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What was the Marshes plan? |
America gave 13 million to to Europe to help rebuild their countries the money would make it back to American economy |
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What country didn't accept the Marshes Plan? |
The Soviet Union |
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Who had good flown in to them from US bomb planes? |
Berlin |
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In 1949 how did the Soviet Union get a bomb? |
They had spies |
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What dies naming names mean? |
Telling who else was involved in communist meetings |
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Who was Mao? |
Chinese leader who killed millions |
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In 1950 what did North Korea do? |
Invaded South Korea |
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US sent troops through the United nations to do what? |
Drive back north Korea |
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Who decided not to use nuclear weapons? |
Truman |
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Who got mad and got fired? |
Douglas MacArthur |
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Who did the US fight in Korea in 1950? |
China |
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When did the ww2 end? |
1950 |
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Chambers claimed who was a spy for the Soviet Union in the 1930's? |
Hiss a government official |
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When was the first American on the moon? |
1969 |
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When did the Cold War start? |
The end of WW2 |
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What was central to the Cold War? |
Atomic bomb |
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How did chamber prove hiss was a spy? |
He had documents in a hollow pumpkin |
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Who was an investor for communist spies? |
Nixon |
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Name some communist spies. |
Klaus Fuchs Julius and Ethel Roenberg |
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Who was Senator Joseph McCarthy? |
Said he had a list of communist spies Drank all the time Said he had been hurt in compact actually fell down some stairs drunk |
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When and where was JFK killed? |
1963 Texas |
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What happened at a protest in May 1970? |
A student was shot and killed |
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What were peace movements? |
Wanted peace for Americans Young Americans for freedom Held bleed ins and bake sales to gather things for troops |
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When did the Cold War end? |
1973 |
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Troops were gone by when after the Cold War? |
1975 |
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When did Italian fascists under Benito Mussolini seize power? |
Early 1922 |
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Who concluded a non-aggressive treaty between them splitting Poland in 1939? |
Hitler and the Russian dictator Josef Stalin |
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What happened when Germany invaded Poland on September 1st 1939? |
England and France declared war |
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In 1939 Germany occupied Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium and invaded who? |
France |
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What was destroyed in Pearl Harbor |
19 us warships 150 plane 2335 us servicemen |
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What were the Axis powers |
Japan Germany and Italy |
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When was D Day and what was it |
June 6 1944 160,000 troops came ashore Frances Normandy and push back German troops to make its way into Germany |
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What was the era of total war |
February 1945 a raid the destroyed the city of Dresden killing more than 25,000 Germany v1 and v2 rockets rain down on London and other cities |
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When did the Russians cross into Germany |
By April 1945 |
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What did Hitler do as the Russians entered Berlin |
Hitler and his mistress committed suicide in an underground bunker |
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When did Germany surrender |
On May 7th 1945 |
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Who is President Roosevelt's vice president |
Harry Truman who saw the end of World War 2 |
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Japan took over the Philistines in what year |
Early 1942 |
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The US retook the Philistines in what year |
February 1945 |
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What was the aftermath of World War 2 |
400,000 Americans dead and 672,000 wounded |
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Who were uprooted and imprisoned in remote camps in 1942 |
120,000 West Coast Japanese Americans |
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When was the United Nations launched |
In San Francisco 1945 it was based on the League of Nations |
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in war world 2 who were the big three |
United States and Great Britain and the Soviet Union |
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) |
Signed on April 4th 1949 it was response to the threat of the Soviet Union signed by the United States and 11 other nations |
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When the Soviet Union test atomic bomb in September 1949 what did President Truman do |
He authorized development of a hydrogen bomb |
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The Korean War is also known as what |
The Forgotten War it killed 36,516 Americans |
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When was the Central Intelligence Agency established |
1947 |
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Who did Nixon almost lose his presidential race |
John F Kennedy |
