World History Exam Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

This was the code name for D-Day

Operation Overlord

True or False: Poland was the country most impacted by the Holocaust

True

The purpose of this project was to develop a weapon of mass destruction

Manhattan Project

radio broadcast by President Roosevelt to let Americans know that the government was working to end the depression

Fireside Chats

Hitler wrote this while he was in prison

Mein Kampf

This was a major cause of the stock market crash

buying stock on credit

This placed blame on Germany after WWI and made them pay reparations

War Guilt Clause

Which battle was a turning point of the Civil War?

Gettysburg

Why did Europeans want to explore the New World? 2 reasons

become rich, spread Christianity

What country was the US in a Cold War against?

Soviet Union

created by the Soviet Union after NATO

Warsaw Pact

The policy provided help to countries threatened by Communism

Truman Doctorine

Where was the first atomic bomb detonated?

Hiroshima

What was the name of the battle that destroyed Japan's Navy in WWII?

Battle of Midway

Trials that were held to hold the Nazis accountable for their war crimes

Nuremberg trials

policy in which the US would take control of one island at a time as they moved closer to Japan

Island Hopping

What was the forced march that took the lives of 1,000s of American soldiers in the Phillipines?

Bataan death March

policies and organizations that Roosevelt created to bring the US out of the depression

New Deal

What was the time period called when it was illegal for people to sell, distribute, or produce alcohol?

prohibition

What was Woodrow Wilson's plan for lasting peace called?

14 points plan

glorifying military power and keeping an army ready for war is

militarism

The idea that people of a territory should determine for themselves whether or not to allow slavery

popular sovereignty

Who is considered the founder of Communism?

Karl Marx

What are the natural rights according to John Locke?

life, liberty, property

policy by President Truman to block Soviet influence and stop the spread of communism

containment

What three countries made up the Axis Powers?

Germany, Italy, Japan

What is suffrage?

the right to vote

Who designed the League of Nations?

Woodrow Wilson

compromise that set boundaries for slavery and divided the North and South

Missouri Compromise

Someone who takes risks to start their own business

entrepreneur

True or False: Martin Luther was against selling indulgenes

True

When the clergy sold pardons that released people from punishment for their sins it was called

indulgence