Foreign Policies
The United States acquired this Asian nation as a result of the Spanish-American War
What is The Philippines?
An attack on this military base is what dragged the United States into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
This was the term for the massive fear in America that there were Communists amongst us
What was the Red Scare?
This was the president during the Spanish-American War
Who was William McKinley?
Who is George Washington?
The United States invaded this island upon suspicion that the Spanish had sunk an American ship
What is Cuba?
At the end of WWI, this country was forced to take most of the blame, restrict its military, and pay a lot of money
What is Germany?
The Korean War was an example of this kind of event
What is a proxy war?
This President warned Europe not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere (New World)
Who was James Monroe?
When the United States annexed Hawaii, it was practicing this foreign policy
What is imperialism?
After overthrowing the government on this island, the United States rewrote history to claim that the people "welcomed" the Americans
What is Hawaii?
This was proposed by President Wilson after WWI as a means to prevent another world war
What is the League of Nations?
This is the term for when the United States was desperately trying to beat the Soviet Union to the Moon
What is the "Space Race"?
This president famously discussed the Japanese surprise attack on the United States as a "day that will live in infamy"
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Although the United States claimed to be following this policy at the start of WWII, the Lend-Lease Act made it seem otherwise
What is neutrality?
It was a part of this treaty that the United States acquired Puerto Rico
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The United States dropped nuclear bombs on these Japanese cities
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union began when the United States learned that there were nuclear weapons pointed at us from very nearby
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This president, upon defending why we were entering WWI, explained that we must "make the world safe for democracy"
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This policy warned European countries that if they try to intervene in independent countries in the New World, the United States will defend those countries
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This poem, written by Rudyard Kipling, outlines American attitudes towards peoples the United States is taking over
What is "White Man's Burden"?
This is the order that called for the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII
Executive Order 9066
This plan, in which the United States gave money to Europe to rebuild (and not the Soviet Union), contributed to rising tensions at the start of the Cold War
What is the Marshall Plan?
This president encouraged American scientists to beat the Soviet Union to the Moon
Who is John F. Kennedy?