u.s. history final review worksheet - lato

Hitler was given the powers of a dictator when the ___________ were passed.

Enabling Acts

The German tactic of fast, overwhelming military attacks was called __________.

Blitzkrieg

Giving in to someone's demands to avoid further conflict is known as ___________.

Appeasement

Germany's political union with Austria was called __________.

Anschluss

Japanese Americans on the West Coast were placed in _________ camps during WWII.

Internment

The classified program to build an atomic bomb was called the _____________.

Manhattan Project

President Truman's policy to send aid to countries threatened by communism was the ______________.

Truman Doctrine

The ____________ symbolized the divide between western democracies and eastern communist nations.

Iron Curtain

The fear that communism would spread into the United States was known as the ______________.

Red Scare

U.S. policy of blocking the expansion of Soviet influence was called __________.

Containment

The theory that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow, was the ___________.

Domino Theory

A gasoline-based bomb used in Vietnam to expose the Vietcong was called ___________.

Napalm

Nixon's plan to gradually withdraw U.S. troops and train South Vietnamese soldiers was called ___________.

Vietnamization

Nixon's policy of easing Cold War tensions was known as _________.

Détente

A period of high unemployment and high inflation occurring simultaneously is called ____________.

Stagflation

Reagan's economic plan to cut taxes, cut the budget, and increase defense spending was called ____________.

Reaganomics

D - Day

The Allied invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944

Warsaw Pact

The Soviet Union's response to the formation of NATO

Plessy v. Ferguson

Established the 'separate but equal' doctrine in the late 1800s

Brown v. Board of Education

Overturned the 'separate but equal' ruling

Cash and Carry

Policy requiring warring nations to pay cash and transport U.S. arms themselves

Bay of Pigs

Failed U.S.-backed invasion that embarrassed the Kennedy administration

Cuban Missile Crisis

Soviet missiles in Cuba vs. U.S. missiles in Turkey — resolved peacefully

Double V Campaign

Called for victory against Nazism abroad and racism at home

38th Parallel

The line dividing North and South Korea

Sputnik I

The first unmanned satellite put into space, launched by the Soviet Union

Jim Crow Laws

Segregation laws in the southern states

Pentagon Papers

Revealed the U.S. government had not been truthful about Vietnam

True or False: WWII officially began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland.

True

True or False: The Axis Powers were made up of Germany, Japan, and Italy.

True

True or False: The atomic bomb was dropped on Berlin to end the war in Europe.

False

True or False: Senator McCarthy rose to national prominence by playing on Americans' fear of communist infiltration.

True

True or False: JFK created the Peace Corps, a volunteer assistance program for developing nations.

True

True or False: The United States was successful in Operation Desert Storm.

True

True or False: The theory that influenced U.S. involvement in Vietnam was called the domino theory.

True

True or False: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of stealing U.S. atomic secrets and giving them to the Soviets.

True

True or False: The Berlin Airlift was established to combat the Soviet blockade of Berlin.

True

True or False: The Freedom Rides were organized to test a new Supreme Court ruling about integration on buses

True

True or False: The Vietcong's main advantage over the U.S. was their superior weapons and air power.

False

True or False: Nixon resigned from the presidency before he could be impeached due to the Watergate scandal.

True

True or False: Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen as the leader of the SCLC.

True

True or False: The result of the Cuban Missile Crisis was that Cuba fired a missile at Miami, starting nuclear war.

False

True or False: Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice.

True