Final Review

Question 1

What did the invasion of Poland start?

Answer 1

WWII for the rest of the world

Question 2

What started WWII for America?

Answer 2

Pearl Harbor

Question 3

What is the difference between a “hot” and “cold” war?

Answer 3

• Cold War: a war without battles
• Hot War: a war with battles

Question 4

Who did the Cold War involve? What was it?

Answer 4

• Between the Soviet Union & America
• A balancing act

Question 5

What did WWII end?

Answer 5

Ends the Great Depression

Question 6

What is the beginning of the liberation of Europe?

Answer 6

“The beginning of the End”

Question 7

Who was the emperor of Japan during WWII?

Answer 7

Hirohito

Question 8

Who is Eva Braun? What happened to her?

Answer 8

• Hitler’s wife
• Killed herself with cyanide

Question 9

Where was JFK assassinated, and in what type of car?

Answer 9

Dallas, TX (1963) in a Lincoln convertible

Question 10

What is divided by the 38th parallel?

Answer 10

Korea

Question 11

What is the only war America ever lost?

Answer 11

Vietnam

Question 12

What are the names of the people who revealed the Watergate scandal?

Answer 12

Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward

Question 13

Hitler served in which war?

Answer 13

WWI

Question 14

What was the first city that was nuked?

Answer 14

Hiroshima

Question 15

How many times was FDR elected?

Answer 15

4 times

Question 16

How did Hitler die?

Answer 16

Killed himself/shot himself

Question 17

What are the names of the two wars in WWII?

Answer 17

War in the Atlantic & War in the Pacific

Question 18

How many total Jews and others were killed in the Holocaust?

Answer 18

9 million total, 6 million Jews, and 3 million others

Question 19

What disease did FDR have?

Answer 19

• Polio
• Died from it in warm springs, GA

Question 20

What were the weapons used in Vietnam?

Answer 20

Agent Orange and Napalm
* Agent orange kills leaves

Question 21

What was the 2nd that was nuked?

Answer 21

Nagasaki

Question 22

What is the name of the newspaper that broke the Watergate scandal?

Answer 22

Washington Post

Question 23

Who did Eisenhower respond to?

Answer 23

FDR and Churchill

Question 24

What is the name of the ship that Hirohito surrendered on?

Answer 24

U.S.S Missouri

Question 25

Modern presidency was created by who?

Answer 25

JFK

Question 26

What is the name of Hitler's book? Where did he write it?

Answer 26

"Mein Kampf" - My struggles Written in prison

Question 27

What did Hitler want to do with his life originally?

Answer 27

Be an artist

Question 28

Nixon was the only president to do what?

Answer 28

To quit

Question 29

Einstein

Answer 29

* Signs letter to FDR * Pacifist * German & Jewish * Had nothing to do with creating the atomic bomb

Question 30

Nixon was the 1st president to go where?

Answer 30

China

Question 31

Nixon was what?

Answer 31

Paranoid

Question 32

Define containment

Answer 32

Communism can stay where it is, but spread no further.

Question 33

If a 3rd city had been nuked, what city would it have been?

Answer 33

Tokyo

Question 34

FDR's historical rank

Answer 34

* #3 * #1 was Abe Lincoln * #2 was George Washington

Question 35

What was the war in the Atlantic?

Answer 35

War against hitler

Question 36

What was the war in the Pacific?

Answer 36

One of two wars against Japan

Question 37

What was Eisenhower's position?

Answer 37

* **SAC**: Supreme Allied Commander

Question 38

MLK was assassinated where and when?

Answer 38

Memphis, TN in 1968

Question 39

RFK was assassinated where and when?

Answer 39

Los Angeles, CA in 1968

Question 40

Where did the bomb first detonate?

Answer 40

Trinity City, New Mexico

Question 41

What dropped the bomb on Hiroshima?

Answer 41

The Enola Gay

Question 42

What country is divided on the 17th parallel?

Answer 42

Vietnam

Question 43

How many wars were in WWII?

Answer 43

Two wars

Question 44

Who is Churchill?

Answer 44

He is the prime minister of Great Britain during WWII

Question 45

Did the Country know FDR had polio?

Answer 45

No

Question 46

Who is the leader of North Vietnam?

Answer 46

Ho Chi Min

Question 47

What was the Battle of Britain?

Answer 47

It was a months long air attack against Europe

Question 48

What was the only country left standing against Hitler?

Answer 48

Europe

Question 49

Who was the Watergate Informant? What was his real name?

Answer 49

* Deep throat * Mark Felt

Question 50

What is D-Day?

Answer 50

The beginning of the liberation of Europe/ "The beginning of the End"

Question 51

What was Douglas MacArthur's position?

Answer 51

Supreme Commander for the war against Japan.

Question 52

Who makes the atomic bombs?

Answer 52

Robert J. Oppenheimer

Question 53

Who was the general in charge of the Manhattan Porject?

Answer 53

Lesley Groves

Question 54

Where is Oppenheimer's office located?

Answer 54

Los Alamos, New Mexico

Question 55

What are the 3 main cities apart of the Manhattan Project?

Answer 55

* Los Alamos, New Mexico * Oakridge, TN (Plutonium plant) * Hamford, WA (Uranium Plant)

Question 56

What was the Battle of Bulge?

Answer 56

Hitler's response to D-Day and Germany's last offensive

Question 57

Numbers to remember from the Japanese Invansion

Answer 57

* 1 million needed to invade Japan, 500,000 dead

Question 58

How many American served in WWII, were wounded, and/or died?

Answer 58

* 18 mil. served * 1.8 mil. wounded * 335,000 - 350,000 dead * 1,000 vets dead per day