Semester Exam Study Part II Answers. A-bombs dropped on ? (cities) Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

Semester Exam Study Part II

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A-bombs dropped on ? (cities)

• Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Sudetenland

• Hitler demanded this area from Czechoslovakia

Japanese-Americans internment camps

• Pres. Roosevelt set these camps up (claimed it was for national security)

Pearl Harbor attack (month, day, year)

• Dec. 7, 1941

Country invaded (started war)

• Poland was invaded by Germany

appeasement

• Giving in to an aggressor to keep peace

blitzkrieg

• Germany’s new military strategy during WWII (“lightning war”)

Manhattan project

• This secret group developed the A-bomb

The Great Depression (country)

• U.S. Great Depression started a worldwide depression

Germany’s last attempt at victory

• Battle of the Bulge

Germany & inflation

• Germany caused inflation (value of the $ decreases) by printing more money

V-E Day

• Victory in Europe Day• Pres. Truman declared this when the Nazis

surrendered

Capital split in Germany

• Berlin (into 4 zones)

2 issues discussed at the Yalta Conference

• What govt. Poland should have• How to divide Germany

Berlin Airlift

• Started because Stalin was blocking Allied access (including supplies) to West Berlin

Beginning year for the Cold War

• 1945 (when WWII ended)

NATO

• This organization was formed and its members agreed that “an armed attack against one or more of them…shall be considered an attack against them all.”

Vietnam (dividing line)

• 17th parallel

Warsaw Pact

• Organization formed in 1955 and consisted of the Soviet Union and its satellite nations

Mao Zedong

• He established a communist govt. in China

Viet-cong

• These were communist guerrillas in South Vietnam

Israel gain statehood (year)

• 1948

Korean War (cause & end)

• Cause- when North Korea crossed the 38 parallel

• End- Korea is still divided at the 38th parallel

Bay of Pigs invasion (and who they tried to overthrow)

• Disaster for the U.S. happened when the air strike failed to destroy Cuba’s air power & the Cuban exiles were captured

• Tried to overthrow Castro

Ending year for the Cold War

• 1991

The Berlin Wall (and year torn down)

• Was built to prevent East Germans from escaping into West Germany

• 1989

Containment of ?

• communism

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Started because the Soviet Union was moving nuclear missiles to Cuba

Ho Chi Minh

• Leader of North Vietnam

Germany (split into how many zones)

• 4

Ngo Dinh Diem

• Leader of South Vietnam