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The Cold War was mainly focused on the U.S and their fight against ___.

Communism

Socialism

Fascism

Exorcisms

Name the structure separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West.

Berlin Wall

The Iron Curtain

Communist Bloc

The Deutche Wall

When East and West Germany decided to become whole again as one Germany, we call that _________________.

reunification

alliances

Iron Curtain

division

Germany eventually divides into two parts: West Germany aligned with the Soviet Union and East Germany aligned with the United States. True or False?

False

Although the Cold War never involved any actual fighting, it was a state of tension between the U.S. and _____________.

the Soviet Union

China

Germany

Middle East

Which country was split in two by the Iron Curtain?

Germany

Poland

Hungary

Soviet Union

The iron curtain was a real curtain. True or False?

False

The dividing line between the Non-Communist in blue and the Communist in red was referred to as what?

The Iron Curtain

The line of demarkation

The 38th Parallel

The DeMilitarized Zone

Why is the Cold War called a "Cold" war?

There was never direct fighting between the two superpowers

The war was fought during winter months only

Leaders of the superpowers were sick with coughs and fevers

The areas affected were in the polar regions of the world

What was a major reason for Cold War?

Ideological differences between USA and USSR

The weather was too low

Insufficient money for war reparations

Inability of the UN to maintain peace

leader of the Soviet Union during WWII “The Enemy of my enemy is my friend”

Joseph Stalin

Franklin Roosevelt

Harry Truman

Winston Churchill

leader of Great Britain during WWII

Winston Churchill

Harry Truman

Joseph Stalin

Franklin Roosevelt

Name given to the Normandy invasion of June 6th, 1944

D-Day Invasion

Pearl Harbor

Secret Mission D

Operation Invasion

Nazi leader of Germany during WWII

Adolf Hitler

Joseph Stalin

Benito Mussolini

Franklin Roosevelt

When was Pearl Harbor attacked?

Dec 7th 1941

Jan 6th 1942

Sept 2nd 1945

Sept 1st 1939

What happened immediately after the atomic bombings in Japan?

Japan surrendered

Italy surrendered

The Nazis surrendered

The Soviet Union surrendered

Which US president said the attack on Pearl harbor was "a day which would live in infamy."

Franklin Roosevelt

Harry Truman

Theodore Roosevelt

Herbert Hoover

The atomic bombs used to end World War II were dropped on__________________.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima and Berlin

Berlin and Tokyo

Tokyo and Nagasaki

What was the “Holocaust”?

the killing of 6,000,000 Jews as well as other groups

none of these

the air war between France and Germany

Stopped Jews from taking their money if they left

What was the big event that started WWII?

invasion of Poland

invasion of Hungary

invasion of Czechoslovakia

invasion of Austria

Who was responsible for the Holocaust?

Hitler and Nazis

Allies

Japanese

Russians

The United States president at the beginning of WWII was

Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

Harry Truman

Winston Churchill

Hirohito

WWII was fought from

1939-1945

1933-1941

1941-1947

1939-1941

This country was blamed for World War I and forced to pay huge war reparations to the Allies.

Germany

France

United States

Great Britain