- Who was the leader of Great Britain during WWII?
- The US gave England warships in exchange for rights to British lands to build military bases around the world
- This was a defensive military alliance signed by the communists after World War II
- The policy of preventing the expansion of communism throughout Europe after World War II and containing it to where it already existed
- An American commitment to defend the Middle East (especially Israel) against attacks by communist countries throughout the 1950s
- This term refers to the World War II civil rights campaign begun by African American newspaper The Pittsburgh Courier that called for a victory over the Axis powers and a victory over racial oppression at home
- An American spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace while photographing Soviet nuclear sites, this was a key incident of the Cold War
- Who was the leader of the USSR during WWII?
- This order was issued by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 and it resulted in the internment of over 120,000 citizens of Japanese Ancestry for the duration of World War II
- A conflict of ideas between the USSR and USA that last from 1945-1989, without any actual fighting
- The country was created after World War II as a homeland for the Jewish people in the Middle East
- Provided the Allies with weapons and supplies to keep the US out of war
- This is a term referring to the imprisonment or confinement of people, generally in prison camps or prisons, without due process of law and a trial
- In 1948, the USA responded to the Berlin Blockade by the Soviets by deciding to provide West Berlin with vital supplies by aircraft
- This was a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by the Western nations to deter communist expansion in Europe
- This was a fictional woman that represented all the women that took manufacturing jobs during World War II to support the war effort
- This is the name for a combat group made up entirely of Japanese American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II
- These were a type of savings bond used by the US government to help fund the war effort; over the course of the war 85 million Americans purchased bonds totaling approximately $185.7 billion.
- Communities organized these to recycle rubber, tin, waste kitchen fats (the predominant raw material of explosives), paper, lumber and steel
- This act required that all men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards; it was the first peacetime conscription in United States history