World War II and the Cold War

What event officially started WW2?

• Germany invades Poland

• Japan attacks China

• Germany invades Soviet Union

• Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Which 3 are Axis Powers?

• USA

• Italy

• Germany

• Japan

Who was the dictator of Germany?

• Adolf Hitler

• Benito Mussolini

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Winston Churchill

Japan attacked the US at __________________.

• Fort Wayne

• Pearl Harbor

• NYC

• San Francisco

Hitler hated the Jews and thought that the ___________ race was the best.

• Aryan

• Italian

• African American

• Japanese

WWII officially ended when this country dropped the atomic bomb on Japan

• China

• The United States

• Russia

• Germany

What were the two alliances that formed during the cold war?

• NATO and Warsaw

• NAFTA AND NATO

• NAFTA AND WARSAW

• The European Union and Warsaw

What did the Soviet Union do when more and more people left East Germany to go to West Germany?

• Built the Berlin Wall to keep them from crossing the border

• Quickly changed to a democratic government

• Worked peacefully with the people to make them stay

• Imposed prompt and severe punishment on those who tried to leave

What did Churchill mean when he said "an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe..."

• The USSR was expanding into southeast Asia

• The Soviet Union was improving the standard of living of Europeans

• The Soviet Union has expanded it's communist influence throughout Eastern Europe during the cold war

• Democracy was expanding across the globe.

How did the political climate of the Cold War impact the world's 2 superpowers?

• The US and USSR competed against each other economically and politically

• They worked together towards the goal of stopping Communism

• They both colonized Africa and Asia

• They worked together to protect human rights around the world.