World War II & Cold War

What was our policy against communism during the Cold War?

• Confinement

• Detente

• Commandment

• Containment

What did Winston Churchill say after the Soviet Union took over Eastern Europe?

• A steel curtain had descended over Europe

• The Red Menace had taken over Europe

• An Iron Curtain had descended over Europe

• A communist wave had engulfed Europe

What was the policy that the United States would help any nation that was struggling against communism?

• The Roosevelt Corollary

• NATO Pledge

• The Marshall Plan

• The Truman Doctrine

What was the European Recovery Act commonly known as?

• The Truman Plan

• The Berlin Airlift

• The Marshall Plan

• The Lend-Lease Act

When did the US enter World War II?

• When Germany invaded Poland

• When Germany bombed London

• When Japan invaded China

• When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

Who were the Axis Powers?

• Germany, Italy, and Japan

• The US, Germany, and Japan

• France, Belgium, and Great Britain

• The US, Russia, England

Who were the Allied Powers?

• The US, Great Britain, and USSR

• Germany, Austria, and Italy

• Germany, Japan, and Italy

• France, Spain, and Great Britain

What was D-Day?

• The Allied invasion of England

• The Allied invasion of Russia

• The Allied invasion of Europe

• The Allied invasion of Japan

Who authorized the use of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

• President Roosevelt

• President Bush

• President Truman

• President Lincoln

Define "Island Hopping"

• allied strategy to win the war in the Pacific

• allied strategy to win the war in USSR

• plan created at the Potsdam convention

• plan created at the Tehran convention