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

• Pearl Harbor

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

• Manhattan Project

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

• Hiroshima & Nagasaki

• 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

• 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

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

• Winston Churchill

• 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

• Domino Theory

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

• Vietnamization

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

• Pacification

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

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

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

• Gulf of Tonkin

• 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

• 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

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