History Final Flashcards
(30 cards)
Leader of Fascist Italy during WW2
Benito Mussolini
Leader of Soviet Union during WW2
Joseph Stalin
Officially start of WW2
Invasion of Poland
Brought US into WW2
Attack of Pearly Harbor
President for most of WW2
FDR
Laws that took Jews’ rights
Nuremberg Laws
Navy Commander during WW2
Chester Nimitz
Japanese cities that were bombed
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Treaty that ended WW2
Treaty of Paris
Iron Curtain
the border between capitalist and communist Europe
Main goal of Berlin airlifts
set a blockade and drop supplies
Brinkmanship first used in. . .
Defending Taiwan (china)
first satellite
sputnik
Why was MacArthur fired
wanted to nuke anything and everything and insubordination
Outcome of Korean war
Korea would stay spilt and war was pointless
Why was Nixon and Kennedy debate was first of it’s kind
it was televised
first man on the moon
Neil Armstrong
failed usurping of Cuba
bay of pigs
who assassinated JFK
lee harvey oswald
had Vietnam has a colony for over 50 years
France
enemy forces in Vietnam
Vietcong
Ho Chi minh Trail
Delivering supplies throughout Vietnam
campus that killed 4 students
kent
what happened after US left Vietnam
everything fell to communism
