War and Peace Abroad
code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II
What is the Manhattan Project
Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States that support each other if attacked.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations. The US did not join.
What is the League of Nations?
Foreign policy created under President Taft that had the U.S. exchanging financial support for political influence in Latin America and the Caribbean.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
What is Yellow Journalism?
The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. It was the closest the two powers came to direct warfare
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
What is the Truman Doctrine?
U.S. wanted Hawaii for sugar, Queen Liliuokalani opposed so planters overthrew her and convinced Congress to let Hawaii join the U.S.
What is the Annexation of Hawaii
This was sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence
What is the Spanish-American War?
A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
What is domino theory?
Congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
From a poem by British poet Rudyard Kipling, the belief that white people had a responsibility to civilize non-white people
What is the White Man's Burden?
Allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Ship that exploded off the coast of Cuba in Havana harbor and helped contribute to the start of the Spanish-American War
What is the USS Maine?
A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
Diplomatic policy developed of Theodore Roosevelt focused on the readiness to use military force if necessary.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
Foreign policy of President Woodrow Wilson to influence and control other countries by refusing to support non-democratic countries.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
An organization of independent states formed after World War II to promote international peace and security. The US joined this time.
What is the United Nations?
President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S involvement in the Vietnam War by replacing US troops with South Vietnamese forces
What is Vietnamitization?
A military strategy of having so many nuclear weapons that their use would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I.
What is the Fourteen Points Speech?
An organization of prominent Americans including Mark Twain, Samuel Gompers and Andrew Carnegie, founded to oppose the occupation of the Philippines after the Spanish American War.
What is the American Anti-Imperialist League?
Congressman from Tennessee and Secretary of State under FDR. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his work creating the UN.
Who is Cordell Hull?