This 1941 act by the U.S. effectively ended all claims of neutrality short of declaring war by providing supplies to the Allies.
What is the Lend-Lease Act/Policy?
100
Americans purchased these to financially support the war.
What are war bonds?
100
This was the political figure responsible for the "iron curtain" speech in 1946.
Who is Winston Churchill?
100
This was the quintessential example of a mass-produced suburb in the decade after World War II.
What is Levittown?
200
This "Big 3" wartime conference had the most lasting effects after the war. Germany would be divided and the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan.
What is the Yalta Conference?
200
Roosevelt's issue of Executive Order 9066 permitted this action.
What is the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps?
200
This was the primary goal of all U.S. foreign policy, including the Marshall Plan & Truman Doctrine, in the decades following WWII.
What is containment of Soviet communism?
200
This was the nickname given to the region of the U.S. that saw population growth in the years after the war.
What is the Sunbelt?
300
This action by the U.S. against Japan precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is a trade embargo?
300
This was the U.S. military plan led by J. Robert Oppenheimer.
What is the Manhattan Project?
300
The U.S. airlifted supplies to this city during a Soviet blockade, 1948-49
Berlin
300
Name 2 benefits provided to returning soldiers as part of the G.I. Bill.
What are college tuition, business/home loans, unemployment benefits?
400
This general planned the D-Day invasion.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
This government agency was created during the war to control inflation by freezing prices/wages & establishing rationing of war-critical foods.
What is the Office of Price Administration?
400
These were the two nations that were the first targets of economic aid under the Truman Doctrine.
What are Greece & Turkey?
400
This committee gained publicity during the 1950s for its investigation of alleged communist sympathizers.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
500
Arrange the following 4 events in chronological order: (A) The Lend-Lease Policy (B) The Neutrality Acts (C) Destroyers-for-Bases agreement (D) Cash-and-Carry Policy
What is B, D, C, A
500
This African American labor leader helped end discrimination in U.S. defense factories by threatening a labor march on Washington, D.C. during WWII.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
500
This was the general fired by President Truman for encouraging an attack on China during the Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
500
This was the nickname of President Truman's social program after his 1948 reelection that included universal health care.