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WWII & the Cold War
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Hitler's Final Solution
Nonaggression pact with USSR
Installing Mussolini as a puppet leader
Extermination of communists
Extermination of Jews
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Forcible removal of Japanese Americans to internment camps was through
Executive Order 14042
Order 66
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 8802
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At the end of WWII, these two countries were distrustful & suspicious of each other
USSR & Germany
USSR & UK
US & UK
US & USSR
4
Stalin's government style in the USSR
Totalitarianism
Militarism
Nazism
Fascism
5
Known as "A day which will live in infamy"
Pearl Harbor (December 7 1941)
D-Day (June 6 1944)
V-J Day (August 15 1945)
V-E Day (May 8 1945)
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DIDN'T add to tensions between US & Japan leading up to Pearl Harbor
Western embargo cut off 90% of Japan's oil sources
Nanjing Massacre perpetrated by Japanese
SF created segregated schools for Asians
US invovlement in peace talks for Russo-Japanese War
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Which of the following is an example of using foreign aid to form alliances with other countries during the Cold War?
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
McCarthyism
HUAC
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Alliance of Western democracies
Warsaw Pact
United Nations
SEATO
NATO
9
Japanese Americans who refused to answer yes to 2 of the loyalty questions were called
No-no boys
Conscientious objectors
Draft dodgers
Enemy aliens
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NOT a major member of the Axis Powers
Japan
Germany
Italy
USSR
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USSR entered WWII later than other Allies because
Remained neutral until Italy invaded Balkans
Signed nonaggression pact with Japan
Remained neutral until Allied invasion of Normandy
Signed a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany
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T/F: Women in the Women's Army Corps (WACs) sometimes fought in combat
False
True
13
1950s Hungary was considered one of the Soviet Union's
Enemy nations
Partner nations
NATO nations
Satellite nations
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During the Cold War, most of the fighting was done through all EXCEPT
Covert action
Propaganda
Direct action
Broadcasts
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Targeted by white mobs in the Zoot Suit Riots
African American migrants
Mexican American teens
Jewish American servicemen
German American enemy aliens
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4 nations given military occupation zones in Germany
US, UK, Spain, USSR
US, UK, USSR, France
US, UK, France, Japan
US, UK, USSR, Italy
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A competition between nations to achieve a more powerful weapons arsenal
Arms race
Space race
Operation Paperclip
Brinkmanship
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A crisis in Palestine between Arabs & Jews in 1947 was the first task for
Warsaw Pact
United Nations
NATO
League of Nations
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Which group saw an increase in median income after WWII?
Women
Asian Americans
Hispanic Americans
African Americans
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An example of brinkmaship during the Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Airlift
Korean War
Rosenbergs trial
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His tactics caused citizens to stop speaking out about injustices for fear of being labeled a subversive & investigated
Douglas MacArthur
Harry S Truman
George C. Marshall
Joseph McCarthy
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Accused of being spies for the USSR in the US during the Cold War
Klaus Fuchs
The Rosenbergs
Joseph McCarthy
Alger Hiss
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Last German offensive on the western front
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Midway
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Berlin
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League of Nation's early strategy to deal with Hitler
Neutrality
Appeasement
Qualified Assent
Quiet opposition
25
Japan's government style leading up to & during WWII
Communism
Authoritarian
Totalitarianism
Fascism
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Term used to symbolize the growing barrier (cultural, political) between East & West Europe
Soviet Bloc
Warsaw Pact
Iron Curtain
United Nations
27
Key stipulations of the Yalta Conference ignored by Stalin
Establishing 4 occupation zones in Berlin
Self-determination & free elections in E. Europe
Limiting atomic weapons
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Massive Allied invasion of Normandy in 1942
Berlin Airlift
D-Day
Leapfrogging
Operation Barbarossa
29
The invasion of ----- caused England & France to declare war on Germany
France
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Poland
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Investigated subversives in the US, called Hollywood 10 to Congress, investigated communism in labor unions
Warsaw Pact
HUAC
NATO
FBI
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USSR's answer to NATO; made up of "Eastern Bloc", communist nations
Vienna Pact
Moscow Pact
Warsaw Pact
Krakow Pact
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The Double V campign wanted a victory in the war & a victory
Against authoritarianism in the Pacific
Against Fascism at home
Against communism in Russia
Against racism at home
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DIDN'T contribute to postwar tensions between US & USSR
US helping western front first
USSR-Nazi nonaggression pact
US development & use of nuclear weapons
Yalta Conference; divided Germany into 4 zones
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Result: Germany was spilt into 2 countries, each with a different style of government
Creation of Warsaw Pact
Berlin Airlift
U-2 spy plane incident
Bridge of Spies
35
Strategies & actions focus on stopping the spread of communism past its current borders
Containment
Arms race
Brinkmanship
Foreign aid
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Authoritarian autocrat supported by US because he opposed communism & favored capitalism
Kim il-Sung
Syngman Rhee
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
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The US originally supported a policy of ------ to avoid the horrors of war & avoid getting drawn into another war
Alliances
Implicit support
Direct support
Neutrality
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Commonly called the forgotton war due to lack of media attention, lack of a clear victory
Korea
Nicaragua
Vietnam
Afghanistan
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Korean War & Truman Doctrine: avoid direct fights to contain communism
Proxy war
Alliances
Brinkmaship
Espionage
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Developed to gain intelligence on other nations due to mutual distrust & suspicion
FBI
NKVD
HUAC
KGB & CIA
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Being prepared to go all the way to war to contain communism
Brinkmanship
Espionage
Proxy war
Alliances
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Strategy used in the Pacific theater
Leapfrogging islands in the Pacific
Launch invasion of Japan from China
Launch invasion of Japan from Alaskan islands
Limit Japan's exapsion until the end of the war