WWII/Cold War Review

This American strategy involved providing economic support to Western Europe to help rebuild their economies.

Rosie the Riveter symbolized

Guarded barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

During the Cold War, this American foreign policy sought to counter Soviet expansion by offering military assistance.

It is a geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy.

Name of the international organization made to keep peace in world and had more than 50 nations join.

A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA.

What caused Japan to surrender at the end of World War II?

It is an armed conflict between two states that act on behalf of others that aren’t directly involved.

"We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud..." This was when

It symbolized the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself from open contact with the West.

What was the blitzkrieg?

The closest the world ever came to nuclear war.

Nations not aligned with either side during the Cold War.

The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was an agreement that

Who became the dictator of Germany in 1933?

When government controls the production of goods and services.

The United States formally entered WWII because

Collective defense treaty signed by the Soviet Union and its seven Eastern Block satellite states.

What was the Manhattan Project?

A contest between two or more states to see who has the best military forces.

What is isolationism?

Alliance between North America and European countries to provide a system of collective defense.

Competition for primacy in aerospace capability between the Soviet Union and the United States.

What was the purpose of the Yalta Conference?

Which answer correctly lists the following events in chronological order?

A period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union & the United States.

Stalin decided to gain control of West Berlin and blocked the Western Allies access to the city.

The Russians won the Battle of Stalingrad.

The socialist state to the north fought against the capitalist south and, in the end, remained divided.

Formed by the Soviet Union and its pro-communist conquered nations.

During WWII, women took jobs that the men had quit to join the military. Why was this change important?

Germany, Italy, and Japan belonged to the Allied Powers.

Formed by the US and its pro-democratic allies.

Which of the following was a cause of WWII?

This famous photograph, now memorialized in statue, taken after the costliest battle in history