Test 11 Flashcards
Adolf Hitler called his dictatorship of German the ___
Third Reich
Britain’s first woman prime minister
Margaret Thatcher
V-e and V-J day both took place in what year?
1945
Great Britain defeated this country in the Falklands War
Argentina
the war that ended in a stalemate, with neither side gaining from the war
Korean War
The Axis Powers included what countries?
Japan, Germany, and italy
The first city bombed with an atomic weapon
Hiroshima
Operation Airlift was an attempt to provide what city with much needed supplies.
West Berlin
NATO was formed to stop what kind of aggression?
Communist
The Cultural Revolution of the Communist dictator Mao Tse-tung took place in which country?
China
Three great American defenders of Christianity
J. Gresham Machen
R. A. Torrey
Billy Sunday
City of the United Nations’ headquarters
New York
Neil Armstrong was the first man to do what?
walk on the moon
What was the first battle in which the enemy ships never saw each other?
Battle of Coral Sea
Who was the brave prime minister of Great Britain during the dark hours of World War II?
Winston Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek was the Nationalist leader of ___.
China
What American President proposed the New Deal to help end the Great Depression?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Who was the first man to cross the Atlantic on a nonstop flight?
Charles Lindbergh
What country contains a vital canal that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans?
Panama
What battle was the last great German offensive of World War II?
Battle of the Bulge
Fidel Castro was the Communist dictator of ___.
Cuba
The Marshall Plan said that the ___ would help European nations recover from World War II.
United States
Which U. S. President prevented a full-fledged Communist invasion of Grenada?
Ronald Reagan
The lessening of hostilities between nations is called ___.
detente
What became a nation-state again under the leadership of David Ben-Gurion?
Israel
British general who fought in North Africa
Sir Bernard Montgomery
instituted a “restructuring” of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet leader throughout World War II
Joseph Stalin
led the Free French forces
Charles de Gaulle
American President at the start of the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
Fascist dictator of Italy
Benito Mussolini
great American general in the Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Japanese pilot who became a Christian
Mitsuo Fuchida
emperor of Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
leader of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
term given to the slaughter of millions of Jews by the Nazis
Holocaust
built to keep East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin
Berlin Wall
chosen to head up the D-Day invasion of Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
date Pearl harbor was attacked
December 7, 1941
great American general led American and U.N. forces in the Korean War
Douglas MacArthur
What was the Cold WAr? Why was it fought? Describe at least two ways America fought Communist aggression
The Cold War was a war fought with words and diplomacy, not with weapons. it was fought to gain friends on one of two sides: either freedom or Communism. America fought Communism through the Marshall Plan, which aided recovering countries; the Truman Doctrine, which promised aid to any free country that resisted Communism; and NATO, a defensive alliance formed to stop Communism. America also fought Communists in Korea and Vietnam.
Know these places on the map of Africa.
Lake Victoria Sahara Desert Congo River Mozambique Channel Libya madagascar Sudan Red Sea Nigeria Somalia South Africa Nile River Liberia Egypt Mt. Kilimanjaro
