Pre-WWII
The US policy of avoiding political or economic involvement with other countries.
What is isolationism or neutrality?
The name of the woman in this photo.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The two main countries involved in the Cold War.
Who are the U.S. and the USSR?
A series of competitive technology demonstrations between the US and Soviet Union.
What was the space race?
Name a reason that the US entered WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941?
The forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese-Americans.
What is Japanese internment?
During the Cold War the main issue from the America's point of view was to stop the spread of __________.
What is communism?
This event signaled the end of the Cold War.
What is "tearing down of the Berlin Wall" or the "fall of the Soviet Union"
The event that started WWII in Europe
What is the German invasion of Poland?
U.S. legislation adopted in 1944 that gave WWII veterans grants for college tuition, low-interest loans, job training, hiring privileges, and unemployment benefits.
What is the GI Bill or Servicemen's Readjustment Act?
The U.S. policy cited to stop the spread of communism was called
What is containment?
Established a new border between North and South Korea creating a demilitarized zone between the two nations.
What was the Armistice of 1953?
Name 3 dictators that rose to power in the 1930s.
Who are Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Joseph Stalin, and/or Hirohito.
The movement of more than 5 million African Americans from the South because of dire economic and social conditions in the South and industrial opportunities in the North.
What is the Second Great Migration?
A name for the threat of communism in the US.
What is the Red Scare?
This organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
In 1935, Congress passed this act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” to foreign nations.
What is the first Neutrality Act?
This program encouraging millions of Mexican men to come to the US and work in agriculture.
What was the bracero program?
This organization was created with the National Security Act of 1947 to collect, evaluate, and disseminate intelligence affecting national security.
What is the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)?
The U.S fought in these two countries during the Cold War
What are Korea and Vietnam?