MUSH Semester 2 Final Exam Review 2025

Match the following

• Holocaust

• Night of broken glass: Nazi's ransacked Jewish shops and synagogues, 91 died and 30,000 were sent to concentration camps

• Kristallnacht

• Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler

• Final Solution

• Hitler's attempted extermination of the Jewish people by the Nazi's by killing more than 5-6 million Jewish people

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the U.S. sent what group of Americans to internment camps in the Southwest?

• German Americans
• Italian Americans
• Japanese Americans

Match the following terms involving the Pacific Theater

• Harry S. Truman

• Secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb

• Hiroshima & Nagasaki

• U.S. base in Hawaii bombed by Japan on December 7,1941 resulting in U.S. entering WW2

• Manhattan Project

• U.S. used atomic bombs on these locations in order to end WW2 sooner with fewer casualties

• Pearl Harbor

• US President who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb

Which U.S. General was known for D-Day and the defeat of Nazi Germany?

• George S. Patton
• Omar Bradley
• Douglas MacArthur
• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Match the following leaders of WWII

• Josef Stalin

• President after FDR died, made the decision to drop atomic bomb

• Winston Churchill

• Communist dictator of Soviet Union, 5 year plan transformed Soviet Union to an industrial and collective agriculture economy with military focus that helped during WWII

• Harry S. Truman

• Prime Minister of Great Britain, known for his "iron curtain" speech about the Soviet Union controlling Eastern Europe

Match the following US Vietnam War strategies

• Pacification

• 1969 Nixon war policy that successfully reduced US troops to 24,000 by 1972 and increased the use of South Vietnamese troops

• Domino Theory

• belief that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries would too - justification for US involvement in Vietnam

• Vietnamization

• program to win hearts and minds of S. Vietnamese people, pacify opposition in countryside, using construction projects, relocation, burning villages

1964 congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Tet Offensive Resolution
• Operation Rolling Thunder
• Vietnam War Act

A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the Vietcong in South Vietnam

• Ho Chi Minh Trail
• Laos Supply Line
• Vietnamese Highway 1
• Mekong River Route

The first President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam who led the fight against the US and South Vietnamese armies

• Ho Chi Minh
• Nguyen Van Linh
• Vo Nguyen Giap
• Le Duan

Match the major Vietnam War events

• Vietnamization

• In 1969 Nixon announced his plan to gradually withdraw US troops from Vietnam while at the same time he moved troops into Cambodia

• French-Indochina War

• 1946-1954 conflict between France and the Viet Minh for France to regain control of French Indochina after WWII, but resulted in France's defeat and divided Vietnam at the Geneva Conference

• Tet Offensive

• 1968 lunar New Year attack by N. Vietnamese on over 100 cities & military bases that shocked Americans and reduced support of the US war effort

• Gulf of Tonkin

• 1964 congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam