Quiz Review Flashcards
Battle of bulge
Last German offensive b; they started losing
Stallingrad
Bloodiest battle
Battle of Britain
Air battle (radar helped the US)
D-day did what?
Liberated Europe in operation overlord
Final solution
Extermination of Jews
Night of broken glass
Germans broke Jewish synagogs and stores and buildings (smashed windows)
Pacific theater
Midway battle (turning point & got an advantage for the US)
Pearl Harbor did what?
It was the war that brought the US into the war
HUAC The house un-American activities
Investigated the Hollywood suspected communists
The Hollywood people accused got what?
Blacklisted bc the communist propaganda
McCarthyism did what?
Amplified the fear of the red scare
Rosenburgs were?
Executed for selling nuclear secrets (& wife 1st executed women since civil war)
The Marshall plan
Economic plan
Truman plan doctrine
Military ideas
Which countries did the Truman doctrine help?
Turkey and Greece
NATO
You attack one of us, you attack all of us
NASA happened bc?
SPUTNICK
Soutnick and schools advancing is an ex of?
Red scare paranoia
United Nations?
US France GB SU China? (The China the us liked (non communist))
22nd amendment happened bc?
FDR elected 4 terms
US Warsaw Pact was?
SU’s pact bc Russia wanted an alliance with Eastern Europe
Fire side chats?
FDR used radio messages to talk to public
Korean conflict and 38 parallel ex of
Containment
Proxy wars?
Korea conflict, 38 parallel, Vietnam war
