U.S. History Second Semester Test

Which event caused the US to enter World War II?

• Pearl Harbor

• Invasion of Poland

• Stalingrad

What event took the Japanese out of World War II (WE WON)?

• Island hopping

• Pearl Harbor

• Battle of Britain

• Atomic Bombs

a government that controls all aspects of society

• totalitarianism

• democracy

• laissez faire

• capitalism

What was NATO

• alliance of Western World with the US

• Soviet Union military alliance

• peace keeping international organization

Belief that if one nation fell to communism so would another

• domino theory

• Berlin airlift

• Soviet aggression

• Norris Law

What was Sputnik?

• Soviet satellite

• U-2 Spy plane

• American rocket

American General in charge of UN forces in Korea

• Gen. MacArthur

• Gen. Eisenhower

• Gen. Kim

Winston Churchill's term for the division in Europe

• Iron curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Cold Barrier

Why were Ethel & Julius Rosenberg executed

• spying

• murder

• war crimes

Name of the military alliance of communist nations

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• Soviet bloc