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Semester Exam Study Part II
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A-bombs dropped on ? (cities)
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Sudetenland
• Hitler demanded this area from Czechoslovakia
Japanese-Americans internment camps
• Pres. Roosevelt set these camps up (claimed it was for national security)
Pearl Harbor attack (month, day, year)
• Dec. 7, 1941
Country invaded (started war)
• Poland was invaded by Germany
appeasement
• Giving in to an aggressor to keep peace
blitzkrieg
• Germany’s new military strategy during WWII (“lightning war”)
Manhattan project
• This secret group developed the A-bomb
The Great Depression (country)
• U.S. Great Depression started a worldwide depression
Germany’s last attempt at victory
• Battle of the Bulge
Germany & inflation
• Germany caused inflation (value of the $ decreases) by printing more money
V-E Day
• Victory in Europe Day• Pres. Truman declared this when the Nazis
surrendered
Capital split in Germany
• Berlin (into 4 zones)
2 issues discussed at the Yalta Conference
• What govt. Poland should have• How to divide Germany
Berlin Airlift
• Started because Stalin was blocking Allied access (including supplies) to West Berlin
Beginning year for the Cold War
• 1945 (when WWII ended)
NATO
• This organization was formed and its members agreed that “an armed attack against one or more of them…shall be considered an attack against them all.”
Vietnam (dividing line)
• 17th parallel
Warsaw Pact
• Organization formed in 1955 and consisted of the Soviet Union and its satellite nations
Mao Zedong
• He established a communist govt. in China
Viet-cong
• These were communist guerrillas in South Vietnam
Israel gain statehood (year)
• 1948
Korean War (cause & end)
• Cause- when North Korea crossed the 38 parallel
• End- Korea is still divided at the 38th parallel
Bay of Pigs invasion (and who they tried to overthrow)
• Disaster for the U.S. happened when the air strike failed to destroy Cuba’s air power & the Cuban exiles were captured
• Tried to overthrow Castro
Ending year for the Cold War
• 1991
The Berlin Wall (and year torn down)
• Was built to prevent East Germans from escaping into West Germany
• 1989
Containment of ?
• communism
Cuban Missile Crisis
• Started because the Soviet Union was moving nuclear missiles to Cuba
Ho Chi Minh
• Leader of North Vietnam
Germany (split into how many zones)
• 4
Ngo Dinh Diem
• Leader of South Vietnam