War is Coming
This was the method used to decrease the use of scarce and essential wartime goods.
Japan launched a surprise attack on the naval base at this location.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This is the preoccupation with buying material goods.
What is consumerism?
This defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the United States every entered during peacetime.
What is NATO?
About the Munich Pact, he said, "Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will have war."
Who was Winston Churchill?
Congress boosted defense spending and created this, the first in peacetime U.S. History.
What is the draft?
In 1938, this country was Germany's first target.
Who was Austria?
This is a company that offers the same products or services in many locations.
What is a franchise?
This group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the Soviet Union.
After the fall of France, he set up a government in exile in Britain.
Who was Charles de Gaulle?
This was responsible for improvements in radar and sonar and the development of "wonder drugs" such as penicillin that saved countless lives.
What is the Office of Scientific Research and Development?
This nation won the Battle of Britain.
Who was Britain?
This is a marketing strategy in which manufacturers purposely design products to wear out or become outdated in a short period of time.
This group's covert actions helped to topple governments in Iran and Guatemala.
What is the CIA?
This general commanded Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Europe.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This Army Chief of Staff pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps.
Who was George Marshall?
Germany invaded this country in spite of the peace treaty signed between the two nations just prior to the invasion of Poland.
Who was the Soviet Union?
This is a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries.
What is a conglomerate?
This aid program was directed "not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos."
What was the Marshal Plan?
He led the nation that developed the first hydrogen bomb.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This labor leader strongly encouraged President Roosevelt to issue an executive order discouraging discrimination in the workplace.
Who was A. Philip Randolph?
This nation ceased to exist after it was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union.
Who was Poland?
He developed a vaccine against polio.
Who was Dr. Jonas Salk?
This policy was intended to defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
The Senate eventually condemned this person for improper conduct that tended "to bring the Senate into disrepute."
Who was Senator Joseph McCarthy?