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US & World Affairs Semester Exam Review Game 1.

The only President never elected President or Vice President Gerald Ford 2. What event caused the United States to enter World War 2? the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 3. The only President elected four times Franklin Roosevelt 4. Youngest person ever elected President John Kennedy 5. What term means a general pardon for certain crimes? amnesty 6. Winner of the 1992 & 1996 Presidential elections/ impeached (1993-2001) Bill Clinton 7. Which 3 countries made up the Axis Powers during WW2? Germany, Italy, & Japan 8. What was JFKs greatest failure in foreign affairs? The Bay of Pigs invasion 9. The only President to resign Richard Nixon 10. What term means separation of the races? segregation 11. What term means granting concessions in order to keep the peace? appeasement 12. Who was the leader of Germany during WW2? Hitler

13. Made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan Harry Truman 14. Germanys invasion of which country started World War 2? Poland 15. President during the Iranian Hostage Crisis Jimmy Carter 16. President during Operation Desert Storm George H.W. Bush 17. What was the main purpose for Operation Desert Storm? to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait 18. Who was the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court? Sandra Day O Connor 19. Who appointed her? Ronald Reagan 20. Which country did the US learn was building missile bases in Cuba in 1962? Soviet Union 21. Who was Italys leader during much of World War 2? Benito Mussolini 22. What is the policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders? containment 23. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War 2? Joseph Stalin 24. Which leader did the US want to overthrow in the Bay of Pigs invasion? Fidel Castro 25. Winner of the 1976 Presidential election (1977-1981)

Jimmy Carter

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