Modern US History Semester 2 Final Review

On September 1, 1939, ____________ invaded Poland, beginning WWII.

• England

• France

• Soviet Union

• Germany

What event caused the United States to enter WWII?

• Kristallnacht

• War was declared on the U.S. by the Axis Powers.

• German invasion of other European countries

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

Which of the following was NOT a group persecuted during the Holocaust?

• The disabled

• Jews

• Gays

• Aryans

____, or night of broken glass, was when anti-Jewish violence erupted in Germany and Austria with 90 Jews being killed and synagogues destroyed.

• Kristallnacht

• Torah

• Shoah

• Holocaust

23,000 paratroopers and 100,000 soldiers by sea attacked the Germans in Normandy through various beaches. This event was called ____.

• V-E Day

• Veterans Day

• V-J Day

• D-Day

The ____ was where planes brought food, fuel, and other supplies to West Berlin (up to 5,000 tons per day) due to the Soviet Union closed routes to the city.

• Berlin Wall

• Berlin Airdrop

• Korean War

• Berlin Airlift

The ___ was a badly planned and quickly stopped invasion of Cuba. It strengthened Castro and embarrassed the U.S.

• Korean War

• Gulf of Tonkin

• Jungle Warfare

• Bay of Pigs

The ___ was when President Kennedy announced what was going on in Cuba to American citizens, with the USSR putting weapons on the island. It was the closest thing to a full-scale nuclear war.

• 28 days

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• SALT Agreement

• Soviet Missile Crisis

A ___ is a nation that is dominated politically and economically by a more powerful nation.

• united nation

• satellite nation

• colony

• soviet nation

Churchill said the ____ was a barrier cutting off Eastern Europe from the rest of the world. Behind that barrier, they were setting up harsh governments.

• Communist government

• Berlin Wall

• Steel Curtain

• Iron Curtain