GPS 19 & 20

Question 0

Battle of Midway

Answer 0

1942 World War II battle between United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific

Question 1

Lend-lease act

Answer 1

1941 law that authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security

Question 2

Island hopping

Answer 2

A military strategy used during World War II that involves selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others

Question 3

Concentration camp

Answer 3

A place where political prisoners are combined, usually under harsh conditions

Question 4

D-Day

Answer 4

Codename for the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944

Question 5

Death camp

Answer 5

In World War II, a German camp created solely for the purpose of mass murder

Question 6

Kamikaze

Answer 6

In World War II, a Japanese suicide plane

Question 7

Holocaust

Answer 7

Nazi Germany’s systematic attempt to murder all European Jews

Question 8

Manhattan Project

Answer 8

Secret America program during World War II to develop an atomic bomb

Question 9

Neutrality acts

Answer 9

1939 laws designed to keep the United States out of future wars

Question 10

Totalitarian

Answer 10

A government that exerts total control over the nation and citizen’s lives

Question 11

Nazism

Answer 11

An extreme form of fascism shape by Adolf Hitler’s fanatical ideas about German nationalism and racial superiority

Question 12

Axis powers

Answer 12

In World War II, Germany, Italy, & Japan

Question 13

Allies

Answer 13

In World War II, the alliance of Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, & other nations

Question 14

Blitzkrieg

Answer 14

Kind of warfare emphasizing rapid & mechanized movement; used by Germany during World War II

Question 15

Appeasement

Answer 15

Policy of giving into a competitor’s demands in order to preserve the peace

Question 16

Fascism

Answer 16

Political philosophy that emphasizes the importance of the nation or an ethnic group, and the supreme authority of the leader over that of the individual

Question 17

Cash and carry

Answer 17

World War II policy requiring nations at war to pay cash for all nonmilitary goods and to be responsible for transporting the goods from the United States

Question 18

North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO)

Answer 18

9049 alliance of nations that agreed to band together in the event of war and to support and protect each nation involved

Question 19

Brinkmanship

Answer 19

A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests

Question 20

Arms race

Answer 20

A contest between nations to gain weapon superiority

Question 21

Satellite nation

Answer 21

A country dominated politically and economically by another nation, especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Question 22

Containment

Answer 22

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

Question 23

Korean War

Answer 23

Conflict over the future of the cream peninsula, fought between 1950 and 1953 and ending in a stalemate

Question 24

Truman doctrine

Answer 24

Harry Truman's 1947 speech before a joint session of Congress, calling for the United States to take a leadership role in the world, and declaring that the United States would support nations threatened by communism

Question 25

ICBM

Answer 25

Intercontinental ballistic missile

Question 26

38th parallel

Answer 26

Latitude line that divided North and South Korea at approximately the midpoint of the peninsula

Question 27

Warsaw Pact

Answer 27

Military alliance between the Soviet Union and nations of Eastern Europe, formed in 1955

Question 28

Berlin airlift

Answer 28

Operation that move supplies into West Berlin by American and British planes during the Soviet blockade in 1948-1949

Question 29

Marshall plan

Answer 29

Program of American economic assistance to Western Europe, announced in 1947

Question 30

Iron Curtain

Answer 30

Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between communist and non-Communist life

Question 31

McCarthyism

Answer 31

Term used to describe Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist smear tactics

Question 32

Cold War

Answer 32

The competition that develop after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union for power and influence in the world, lasting until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991

Question 33

Sputnik

Answer 33

First artificial satellites orbit Earth, launch by the Soviets in 1957