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 * Review Sheet for World War Two and Cold War Quiz **

__World War Two__ 1. The Four Freedoms and Norman Rockwell 2. Bugs Bunny and War bonds 3. Casablanca Conference - significance 4. Yalta Conference - signficiance 5. John Kenneth Galbraith and the air war during WWII 6. Importance of newsreels on the U.S. Homefront 7. White Light, Black Rain 8. Kamikazees 9. Coral Sea and Midway – significance 10. Island hopping 11. Office of War Mobilization, Office of Price Administration 12. Wartime shortages and its effects on Americans 13. Scrap metal drives – purpose and significance 14. A. Philip Randolph and the Double V campaign 15. Manhattan Project and Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb (also what the scientists wanted to do with the bomb) 16. Bracero Program / Zoot Suit Riots 17. Rosie the Riveter / Navajo Code Talkers / Tuskegee Airmen / 442nd Regiment 18. Reasons for Japanese internment

__Early Cold War__ 1. Importance of the Yalta Conference 2. Early Soviet events and the American response (Cold War Battle) 3. Butter Battle Book - Cold War symbols 4. Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan - similarities and differences 5. Guilty By Suspicion and its relation to HUAC / Truman’s Loyalty Program / McCarthyism - similarities and differences 6. Berlin Airlift 7. NATO 8. Easing Fears of Atomic Weaponry - Bert the Turtle, "If The Bomb Falls", Bomb Shelters 9. Eisenhower’s New Look program 10. Pactomania as a Cold War response 11. Use of the CIA during the Cold War 12. NASA and the National Defense Education Act 13. Interstate Highway Act 14. Korean War – causes and why China got involved 15. Brinkmanship and Mutual Assured Destruction 16. Soviet satellites - what they were and their purpose