History Quiz

Meeting of U.S. president Harry S Truman, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin after Germany's surrender in World War II

Huge corporations run by single families that monopolized the Japanese economy before World War II.

War crimes trials of high-ranking Nazi officials held by an international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, began in 1945.

International organization chartered in 1945; created to settle problems between nations.

Movement pushing for the formation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Architect of the Jewish extermination program; avoided persecution by hiding his identity and escaping to Latin America

Zionist leader who was a main supporter of making Palestine the Jewish homeland

Long power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union; waged mostly on economic and political fronts.

Countries controlled by the Soviet Union.

U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War that sought to prevent the expansion of Soviet communism.