Year End Review 1930 Great Depression-1970 Vietnam

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  1. 3. What day is August 14, 1945?
  2. 5. What type of government owns most of the property and citizens have limited rights and no voice?
  3. 10. Which US president sent ground troops to Vietnam?
  4. 13. What is the name of the imaginary line that separated East/Communist Europe from West/Democratic Europe?
  5. 17. What is the name of the military strategy the Japanese used in the Pacific Theater during WWII?
  6. 19. What country was invaded September 1, 1939 to start WWII?
  7. 21. Who is the fictional women that is a symbol of working women during WWII?
  8. 24. What is the abbreviation for the organization the US joined during the Cold War?
  9. 26. What is it called that requires young men to sign up for military service?
  10. 27. This man was a great leader for African Americans during the Civil Rights movement.
  11. 28. What is the name of the project to build the atomic bomb?
  12. 30. Who has absolute rile over a country?
  13. 31. Who was Italy's dictator during WWII?
  14. 32. Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain who saw his country through to the end of WWII?
  15. 33. What is the abbreviation for the demilitarized zone in Korea and Vietnam?
  16. 34. What event happened June 6, 1944?
  17. 36. Who was the Louisiana man who sued the government to integrate trains but lost starting "separate but equal"
  18. 38. Who led North Vietnam against he US supported South Vietnam?
  19. 39. What is the name for Hitler's fast as lightening warfare tactics?
  20. 41. What is the time period called in US history of no rain/drought that ruined many farms?
  21. 43. How did the US support West Berlin after Stalin cut off supplies?
  22. 44. Which side of the iron Curtain did the US support?
  23. 45. Name of dictator and fascist in Germany during WWII?
  24. 47. Who was the military leader of Japan during WWII?
  25. 49. Which side of Korea did the US support?
  26. 50. What is the strategy used by the US to win the war in the Pacific Theater during WWII?
  27. 53. What word is a nickname for being a communist?
  28. 55. What is the name of the war fought to stop the spread of communism with the help of the Vietcong?
  29. 57. What is the name of the 1964 Act that allowed all citizens the same rights under our constitution?
  30. 58. What is the name of the plan to give 13 billion dollars in aid to help rebuild Europe after WWII?
  31. 59. Which canal was a shortcut waterway to the oil in the Middle East during WWII?
  32. 60. What type of race is when countries compete to stockpile nuclear weapons?
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  1. 1. What was bombed that drew the US into WWII?
  2. 2. What state did many Dust Bowl folks try to move west to get a job in?
  3. 4. What is the name of the tensions between the US and the Soviet Union after WWII?
  4. 6. What word means to avoid war at all cost and failed after Chamberlain met with Hitler during WWII?
  5. 7. What is the group of people called that rode interstate busses to protest segregation on public busses?
  6. 8. What capitol city of Germany got divided into 4 zones/
  7. 9. What is the name of a homeless person who rode trains looking for work during the Great Depression?
  8. 11. What crashed in 1929 that helped begin the Great Depression?
  9. 12. What did FDR called his plan to put people back to work during the Great Depression?
  10. 14. What is the abbreviation for Great Britain's air force that never surrounded to Germany's Luftwaffe?
  11. 15. What country as divided at the 17th parallel after WWII?
  12. 16. What country was split at the 38th parallel after WWII?
  13. 18. What is President Truman's policy of stopping the spread of communism called?
  14. 20. What part of France's coastline was invaded by the Allies on DDAY, June 6, 1944?
  15. 22. What is the name of the Soviet satellite that prompted the US to spend money to expand their space program?
  16. 23. What terrible event happened to Jews during WWII because of their religious beliefs?
  17. 25. What small island off the coast of Italy was key to winning WWII and gave the Allies a place to enter Europe?
  18. 29. Who was the Supreme Commander of the US troops during WWII and who later became a US president?
  19. 32. What is the name of the town, in France, that was used to trick Hitler into thinking the allies were coming across the English Channel at that spot?
  20. 35. Who is the group of high school who integrated Central High School in Arkansas?
  21. 37. What is it called when races are separated?
  22. 40. What did the US government do to Japanese Americans out of fear during WWII?
  23. 42. Which US General led the fake troops at Calais, France to rick Hitler during WWII?
  24. 45. Which was het first of 2 Japanese cities to be bombed effectively ending WWII?
  25. 46. What peaceful organization came after the failure of the League of Nations?
  26. 48. Who was nicknamed the Desert Fox and fought against the US in WWII?
  27. 51. What is the name of Germany's Air Force?
  28. 52. What was Ruby's last name - the little girl who integrated a public school in New Orleans?
  29. 54. Who was the US president who saw the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis and was later assassinated?
  30. 56. What is the name of the canal that is a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?