World War II and Cold War

In December of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that the United States had declared war on Japan. The event that led to this decision was Japan's:

• Bombing of Pearl Harbor
• Bombing of England
• Bombing of Normandy
• Bombing of London

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The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of American pilots who flew many missions during World War II. They were good pilots who earned a great deal of recognition, but were also unique in the military because they were

• Japanese Americans
• Asian Americans
• African Americans
• Mexican Americans

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What is the name of the system where the government owns the stores, factories, banks, and all means of economic production?

• Monarchy
• Dictatorship
• Democracy
• Communism

German leader who led the Nazi Party

• Joseph Stalin
• Adolf Hitler
• Benito Mussolini
• Hirohito

The nuclear arms race was between

• The United States and the Soviet Union
• United States and Korea
• United States and Japan
• United States and Germany

The president who decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• Dwight Eisenhower

What was the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that was a struggle between their ideologies of democracy and communism?

• World War III
• The Cold War
• The Marshall Plan
• Russian American War

Which term described how the Soviet Union's effort to control some countries in Eastern Europe by not allowing their people to communicate with others outside of the Soviet Union?

• The Iron Curtain
• Soviet Union Control
• The Berlin Airlift
• The Warsaw Pact

What was the name of the organization that hoped to promote peace and global cooperation following WWII?

• League of Nations
• The U.S. Congress
• Treaty of Versailles
• United Nations

Which war began in 1950 with a communist government invading its southern neighbor?

• World War II
• The Vietnam War
• The Cold War
• The Korean War