Spring Semester Review (WWII-Cold War) pg. 1-2

Match the following: WWII (1939-1945)

• Poland

• What was the US before getting involved in WWII?

• Lend-Lease Act

• Where did Germany invade in 1939, causing WW2 to begin?

• Neutral

• What is another word for isolationist?

• Isolationist

• What did FDR pass in 1941 to help the Allied Powers financially and get weapons?

Match the following: WWII (1939-1945)

• 1941

• Why did the US join WW2?

• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• What did we cut off from Japan causing them to bomb Pearl Harbor?

• Oil supply

• What was Pearl Harbor?

• A military base / naval base

• What year did the US get involved?

Match the following: WWII (1939-1945)

• Japanese Americans

• Who were the Allied Powers?

• Opened up a new allied front

• Who were the Axis Powers?

• Germany, Italy, Japan

• What did D-Day do that was important?

• U.S., Great Britain, USSR, France

• Where did the US invade on June 6, 1944?

• Normandy, France

• Who did the US put into internment camps after Pearl Harbor?

Match the following: WWII (1939-1945)

• Battle of Midway

• What two fronts was the US fighting on?

• Atlantic and Pacific

• What was the turning point in the war?

• establishing military bases

• What did the US sell to help finance the war?

• war bonds

• When the US was “island-hopping” what were they establishing on each island?

Match the following: WWII (1939-1945)

• Harry Truman

• What are Victory Gardens and the recruiting of women examples of?

• Volunteerism / Supporting the war effort

• Why did he drop the bombs instead of invading by foot?

• prevent mass casualties & end WWII

• What president dropped the atomic bombs?

• Forced death march (60 miles)

• What happened on the Bataan Peninsula?

Match the following: WWII (1939-1945)

• Manhattan Project

• What year were the bombs dropped?

• 1945

• What was the secret project to design this new weapon?

• Japan surrenders / WWII ends

• What happened after the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki?

Match the following: Truman to Nixon & the Cold War (1945-1991)

End of WWII

• Capitalism vs. Communism

• Who was the US fighting against during the Cold War?

• the use of nuclear weapons

• Why was the US fighting against the Soviet Union?

• Soviet Union

• What were they threatening against one another?

• arms race with the Soviet Union

• What was initiated after Harry Truman dropped the atomic bomb?

Match the following: Truman to Nixon & the Cold War (1945-1991)

Space Race

• math & science

• What did America fear from that?

• technological superiority

• What subjects did the US start to fund?

• Sputnik

• What event happened in 1969 that made America superior?

• put a man on the moon

• What was the name of the satellite launched by the Soviet Union?

Match the following: Truman to Nixon & the Cold War (1945-1991)

Important Dates

• Vietnam War

• What event happened in 1948?

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• What war occurred from 1950-1953?

• Berlin Airlift

• What happened in 1962?

• Korean War

• What war occurred from 1955-1975?

Match the following: Truman to Nixon & the Cold War (1945-1991)

Korean War & Vietnam War

• 38th parallel

• What side did the US help?

• peninsula under communist rule

• What did North Korea want to unify?

• South Korea

• What president was responsible for the Gulf of Tonkin and escalating the war?

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Where did North & South Korea settle their border dispute?

• Ngo Dinh Diem

• Which leader from South Vietnam did the US help?