The Path to War
The Japanese Empire attacked this U.S. naval base on the island of Oahu by surprise on December 7th, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
A program of controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services that was used during WWII to support the war effort.
What is rationing?
This massive government program developed the first nuclear weapons.
What was the Manhattan Project?
An economic system where the community /government controls the “means of production” and the distribution of wealth.
What is socialism?
The Cold War ended with the collapse of this Marxist superpower.
This country allied itself with the fascist governments of Germany and Italy to form the Axis Powers.
What is Japan?
These facilities were used by the U.S. government to hold Japanese-Americans against their will during the war.
What are internment camps?
The only cities that have ever been struck by nuclear weapons.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
A conflict in which major powers fight each other without direct engagement.
What is a proxy war?
A leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power.
What is a demagogue?
This policy was the first to soften U.S. isolationism before WWII, allowing for the sale of weapons as long as the Allies paid in full and picked up their shipments.
What is "cash and carry"?
This government agency oversaw the refitting of factories to the production of wartime materials.
What is Los Alamos, New Mexico?
In the 1950s the United States went to war in this country to contain the spread of communism in Asia, ending in a divided country along the 38th parallel.
What is Korea?
A systematic attempt to overthrow or undermine a government or political system by persons working secretly from within.
What is subversion?
This political ideology promoting nationalism and militarism was developed in Italy by Benito Mussolini.
What is fascism?
Families on the Home Front were encouraged to plant these in their yards to grow their own food, reducing the strain on food supplies during the war.
What are victory gardens?
A principle of deterrence founded on the notion that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack such that both the attacker and the defender would be annihilated.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
This U.S.-sponsored program was designed to rebuild economies in Europe to bring stability and democracy there and keep communism from spreading.
What was the Marshall Plan?
The investigations of this committee led many Americans to be blacklisted as suspected communists.
What was the House Un-American Activities Committee?
These laws passed by Congress were a prime example of American isolationism, as they prohibited the sale of weapons or supplies to countries at war.
What were the Neutrality Acts?
The courage and achievements of this group of black aviators was widely publicized during the war, and is seen as one of the first civil rights successes.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This kind of weapon, often called the H-Bomb, uses a fission reaction to initiate an even more powerful fusion reaction.
What is a thermonuclear warhead?
This failed attempt to overthrow the Marxist regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba was financed and organized by the CIA in secret.
What are glasnost and perestroika?