Prep Game and IDs- WW2 and Cold War

NOTE! Americas first challenge was to…

Re-tool for war production.

This minority was hurt by Washington’s war time policies?

Japanese Americans

Franco overthrew this country?

Spain

This speech upset the isolationist?

Quarantine Speech

After he signed a non-aggression pact with ____ Hitler invaded Poland.

The Soviets

NOTE! What did Britain give up for destroyers?

Naval Bases

NOTE! What caused Americans neutrality to end?

The fall of France

NOTE! With the fall of France what did America pass?

Conscription Law

The Americans felt the Japanese would attack here not Pearl?

Philippines

Japan believed it was forced into war with the US because Roosevelt demanded that Japan get out of this country?

China

NOTE! Roosevelt felt he had to run in 1940 because?

there needed to be experienced leadership.

NOTE! The Republican nominee in 1940 was?

Wendell Wilkie

NOTE! Right before Pearl Harbor what did Americans want to do?

Stay out of war

Who did Roosevelt want to defeat/attack first?

Germany

NOTE! What were Americans much more of during WWII?

Pragmatic (they knew they were fighting evil on both sides).

NOTE! African Americans did not do what in WWII?

They did not fight in integrated combat unions.

During WWII what happened to the economy?

The economy improved/went up.

NOTE! By the end of WWII African Americans had moved where?

To the North

NOTE! What happened to the National Debt in WWII?

Debt increased the most.

NOTE! Where did the money for WWII come from?

Borrowing

The tide to the Japanese conquest turned in the Pacific in this battle?

The Battle of Midway

NOTE! Why was the Island of Guam important to the US?

The US could bomb Japan 24 hours a day.

This battle turned the tide in the European theater in 1942 on the Volga River?

Stalingrad “Fate of The World”

NOTE! Who did the people focus on in the convention election of 1944?

The vice-president

NOTE! Why did FDR win the 1944 election?

War was going well

Hitlers last ditch effort to break out of Germany was what?

The Battle of the Bulge

The Americans let the Japanese keep who?

Emperor Hirohito

Americans feared that the end of the war could bring back what?

The Depression

NOTE! What banned all union shops?

The Taft-Hartley Act

The post war economic boom really expanded what economic class?

The middle class

NOTE! What did the economic boom of the 50’s and 60’s rest on?

Big military budgets

NOTE! What expanded in the post war years?

Agricultural productivity

After the war the population moved where? Snowbelt or Sunbelt?

Sunbelt, more warmer places

NOTE! Surburbia has nothing to do with the environmental crisis but?

It does cause an increase in urban poverty.

NOTE! When did the Baby Boom reach its peak?

In the late 1950’s

NOTE! What was the Cold War about?

Conflicts about Eastern Europe

George F Kennan advocated for what?

Containment

This alliance was made to resist the Soviet (Russian) military threat?

NATO

In 1941 the United States extended this?

Lend-Lease

NOTE! WWII was less

practical and ideological

What came out of the NATO pact

warsaw pact

how did the US gain naval bases in the pacific

destroyer deal

who invaded ethiopia?

Mussolini

Which countries did the Truman Doctrine assist?

Greece and Turkey

T or F? There was no environmental crisis after the war

T

What did the UN fail to do?

stop the spread of atomic weapons

London Economic Conference

Sixty six nations met to launch a frontal attack on the global depression. It was particularly eager to stabilize, national currencies, and thus revive international trade.

Joseph Stalin

Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII

“Quarantine Speech”

Delivered by Roosevelt in the autumn of 1937. He called for “positive endeavors” to “quarantine” the aggressors, who were Italy and Japan by economic embargoes.

Do not join the war by any means

Miracle of Dunkirk

British managed to evacuate to England, the book of their shattered and disarmed army

Battle of Britain

raged in air over the British Isles. The Royal Air Forces, tenacious defense, that Hitler to postpone his planned invasion indefinitely

Atlantic Charter

Promise that there would be no territorial changes contrary to the wishes of the inhabitants.

Office of Price

Administration– brought ascending prices under control with extensive regulations.

Bracero Program

Mexican workers came to America to harvest the wartime crops.

Douglas MacArthur

Eloquent, egotistical commander in the Pacific. His company was forced to retreat to the Philippines, where many were killed at Baton

Midway

The turning point in the battle on the Pacific front. America came out on on top of Japan.

Leapfrogging

Defense strategy that America used to defeat, Japan. You go from Ireland to Ireland destroying each before you go on.

Stalingrad

Where the Russians haunted the German steamroller.

D-Day

June 6, 1944 enormous operation that involved forty–six hundred vessels.

V-E Day

Victory in Europe day on May 8 a day after German government surrendered.

“Kamikazes”

Japanese suicide pilots.

Rome-Berlin Axis

The Nazi Hitler and the Fascist Mussolini allied themselves in the Rome–Berlin axis.

Appeasement

“ Appeasement” of the dictators, symbolized by the ugly word Munich, turned out to be merely surrender on the installment plan.

Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister during WWII. He was involved in a conference with Roosevelt and form the eight–point Atlantic charter.

Axis Powers

Germany, Japan, and Italy formed an alliance.

War Labor Board

Imposed ceilings on wage increases.

Code talkers

Comanche in Europe and Navajo’s, in the Pacific transmitted, radio messages in their native languages, which were incomprehensible to the Germans and the Japanese.

Bataan Death March

A vicious 85 mile death march in the Philippines.

“Desert Fox”

Marshall Romel; letter, Germans across north Africa into Egypt, near the Suez Canal.

“Second Front”

The Soviet pleaded the British and the Americans for a second front in the west, because of staggering losses in 1942.

Thomas E. Dewey

The Republican nominee for the presidency in 1944.

Iwo Jima

Tiny island in the Pacific needed as a place for damage bombers returning from Japan; it was captured in 1945.

V-J Day

The day Japan was defeated.

Totalitarianism

The individual was nothing. The state was everything.

Francisco Franco

Headed the Spanish rebels, took over Spain and made it a fascist state.

Hilter Stalin Pact (Nazi-Soviet Pact)

Let the Nazi German leader, make war on Poland and Western democracies without fearing a staff in the back from the Soviet Union.

Conscription Law

Americans first peace time draft-provision was made for training each year 1.2 million troops and 800,000 reserves.

Red Army

Another name for the Soviet Army.

War Production Board

Orchestrated American factories that poured for an avalanche of weaponry.

“Arsenal of democracy”

What FDR said the US would become under lend–lease.

“Baby Boomers”

The huge leap in the birth rate, and the decade and a half after 1945.

Coral Sea

The battle of the Coral and Midway were privet to victory in the Pacific.

Guadalcanal

In August 1942, American ground forces gained a toehold on Guadalcanal Island, and the Solomons, in an effort to protect the lifeline of America to Australia, through the southwest Pacific.

General Montgomery

British commander in Northern Africa.

Battle of the Bulge

A ten–day, penetration of Axis forces that was finally halted after the 101st Airborne Division stood firm at the vital battle of Bastogne.

Okinawa

A well-defended Japanese island, was next on the list: it was needed for closer bases from which to blast and burn enemy cities and industries.

“White Flight”

To the green suburbs, left the inner cities, black, brown, and broke.

NATO

In April 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was signed by the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Iceland, and Canada. The signatories pledged that attack against one would be considered an attack against all.

Yalta Conference

In February 1945, “The Big Three“ Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin called for a conference on world organization to meet in April 1945, and the United States.

Cold War

When they hated, Hitler fell, suspicion and rivalry between communistic, despotic Russia and capitalistic, democratic America, were all but inevitable. In a fateful progression of events , marked often by misperceptions, as well as by genuine conflicts of interest, the two powers provoked each other into a standoff known as the Cold War.

Loyalty Review Board

In response to criticism, particularly from the House Committee on Un-American Activities, that his administration was "soft on communism," Truman established this board in 1947 to review government employees.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Two American citizens, who had committed espionage after relaying secrets about atomic data, to Russia, enabling the Soviet union to build an atomic bomb. They were convicted in 1951 and went to the electric chair in 1953.

Fair Deal

Truman outline this program in his 1949 message to Congress. It called for housing, full employment, higher minimum wage, better farm supports, new TVA’s and an extension of Social Security.

Police action

This was action taken by the United Nations in response to the outbreak in Korea. The countries were supporting Korea, and sending reinforcements and supplies, greatly aided by the United States of the UN.

Satellite States

These were countries that were under the control of the Soviet union. They were not connected to the mother country. They also had their own form of government (was limited by the Soviet Union).

Iron Curtain

This term referred to the countries possessed by the Soviets. It was used to keep the outside world from knowing what was happening within the Soviet Union. The iron curtain stretch from the Baltic to the Adriatic, and separated the east from the west.

Containment

Washington foreign policy of stopping communist aggressors

Suburbs

Suburban housing developments, criticized for their monetary and cultural barrenness. They provided inexpensive and spacious housing for growing families seeking to escape the crowded confines of the cities.

Big Three

Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt.

NSC-68

Also known as the National Security Council, it was established under the National Security Act. Truman‘s National Security Council had recommended in this famous document of 1950 that the United States should quadruple it defense spending. The NSC–68 was resurrected by the Korean crisis.