Cold War Day 2 Warm-Up

Took on new roles to support the war effort, joined nurse cadets, and worked in factories to keep up production

• Atomic bomb
• Pearl Harbor
• The Holocaust
• Women

The Nazi attempt at the genocide of the Jewish people, caused many Jews to migrate to America

• Atomic bomb
• Pearl Harbor
• The Holocaust
• Women

Japanese retaliation for embargo, resulted in U.S. entering WWII

• Atomic bomb
• Pearl Harbor
• The Holocaust
• Women

A strategic weapon developed at Los Alamos, NM; Japan surrendered after bomb was dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulted in arms races with Soviets

• Atomic bomb
• Pearl Harbor
• The Holocaust
• Women

Box 1 and 2

• A
• B
• C
• D

Box 3 and 4

• A
• B
• C
• D

The Soviet Union set up the Iron Curtain in order to -

• serve as a buffer between the Soviet Union and its enemies
• prevent foreign ships from delivering supplies to Soviet controlled harbors
• extract iron from the Ural Mountains to help support their industrial growth
• train and develop future military leaders

This is a cross-sectional diagram of a major operation ordered by President Harry S. Truman in 1948. The flight pattern illustrated in the diagram was designed to allow an airplane to land every three minutes. Why was this operation undertaken?

• To enable a rapid withdrawal of troops from a war-torn city
• To deploy substantial invasion forces
• To provide supplies to a blockaded city
• To rescue thousands of stranded political refugees

The skill and courage of the Tuskegee Airmen served to -

• give the United States an advantage in military encryption
• encourage immigrant enlistment in the U.S. Army during World War II
• decrease opposition to integrating the armed forces
• increase the number of women joining the U.S. military during World War II