Distraught over the monetary & human cost of WWI the U.S. adopts this policy.
What is Isolationism?
100
Germany, Italy & Japan
What is the Axis Powers?
100
The U.S. and the Soviet Union emerge from WWII known as this to the world.
What is "Super Powers"?
100
The U.S. program to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
The large increase in the birthrate following WWII was credited to this group.
Who are Baby Boomers?
200
Fear of Communism; limited immigration to the U.S.
What is the Red Scare?
200
Great Britain, U.S. & the Soviet Union
What is the Allied Powers?
200
U.S. Foreign Policy was based on the containment of this.
What is Communism?
200
The Soviet Union attempts to place nuclear weapons in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
Japanese Americans are forced to live in internment camps.
What is the 2nd Red Scare?
300
Glorification of the accomplishments of African Americans.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
The reason the U.S. entered WWII.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
300
These two countries became suspicious of each others motives and policies after WWII; the Cold War begins.
Who are the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
300
This idea stated that if one country fell to communism, then most likely the countries surrounding it would fall too.
What is the Domino Theory?
300
Communist North Vietnam invades South Vietnam and begins this.
What is the Vietnam War?
400
FDR's plan to combat the "Great Depression".
What is the New Deal?
400
WWII ends when the U.S. does this?
What is drops Atomic Bombs on Japan?
400
The Soviet Union controls most of Eastern Europe; the Soviet area was known as this.
What is the "Iron Curtain" or Soviet Bloc?
400
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology...initially for Turkey and Greece to keep them from the Soviet Sphere.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
Brown vs. Board of Education declares segregation illegal overturning this case.
What is Plessey vs. Ferguson?
500
Bank Failures, Overproduction, Overspending, & Stock Market Crash
What are the causes of the "Great Depression"?
500
This was established to preserve world peace.
What is the United Nations?
500
Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba and allies with this country.
What is the Soviet Union?
500
The genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
500
A legal form of protest to bring about government change.