Causes of WWII & U.S. Involvement in WWII
Fighting World War II
The Cold War Begins
New Frontier, Great Society & Vietnam War

Seventies and Eighties
100
giving into demands to avoid further conflict
appeasement
100
Navajo Indians serving in the Marines during World War II who used their language to create an unbreakable communications code
code talkers
100
address given by Winston Churchill where he warned of the division between communist Eastern Europe and free Western Europe
Iron Curtain speech
100
failed attempt by U.S.-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow Cuba's Communist dictator Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs invasion
100
Wrote The Feminine Mystique, which revealed that many educated women were unsatisfied as homemakers
Betty Friedan
200
enforcing equal distribution of goods during a shortage, such as for food and fuel during World War II
rationing
200
strategy used by the Allies in the Pacific to achieve increasingly more valuable positions relative to Japan
island hopping
200
commitment that the U.S. would aid foreign governments struggling against communist revolutionaries
Truman Doctrine
200
passed by Congress during the Vietnam War to give the president the power to expand the war
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
200
Nixon's cover-up of his involvement with a break-in at the Democratic Party's offices during the election of 1972
Watergate scandal
300
forced relocation of certain Asian Americans from the west coast during World War II
internment of Japanese Americans
300
program to develop and construct an atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
300
motion picture directors, writers and producers blacklisted for refusing to answer questions about their suspected communism
Hollywood Ten
400
first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, which was launched by the Soviet Union
Sputnik
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