Spanish Am War
Also called yellow journalism. Technique for selling more newspapers by sensationalizing and exaggerating news events to lure and enrage readers.
What is the Yellow Press?
Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Assassination (MANIA)
What are the causes of WWI?
Japanese cities where the atomic bombs were dropped by the U.S. three days apart killing an estimated 200,000 people. After Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered on V-J Day.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Military demarction line in Vietnam.
What is the 17th Parallell?
The "easing of tensions" during the Cold War.
What is detente?
Ship that explodes off the coast of Cuba in Havana harbor and helps contribute to the start of the Spanish-American War
What is the USS Maine?
British liner sunk by a German U-boat in 1915. Almost 1200 people died - 128 were Americans. Turned American public opinion against Germany and the Central Powers.
What is the Lusitania?
Created on June 26, 1945 by representatives from 50 nations - intended to promote peace. Came from "A Declaration of the United Nations" (signed by 26 nations in 1942) which was established from the Atlantic Charter's aims - it called for a creation of a new peacekeeping organization.
What is the United Nations?
President Truman's speech to Congress asking for aid to help Turkey and Greece resist the growing communist influence. Official beginning of the "containment" policy - stopping the spread of communism to other countries.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Unsuccessful military invasion of Communist Cuba in 1961 by U.S. sponsored troops. The invasion was a major embarrassment for U.S. foreign policy. Although this project started during Eisenhower's presidency, Kennedy was president in 1961 and took the blame.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
After decades of nationalist resistance against the Spanish (and violent repression of activists) this Pacific Island nation proudly declared independence in 1898. But the Spanish had handed control over to the USA, who had no plans to recognize their independence.
What are the Phillipines?
A promise Germany made to America in 1916 - after President Wilson threatened to sever ties - to stop sinking their ships without warning. Germany started unrestricted submarine warfare within a year - helped push the U.S. to declaring war.
City in Italy where the Allied forces launched an amphibious attack to gain a foothold on Italy's mainland. Met with strong resistance from German forces, and casualties were high.
What is Salerno?
Alleged attack of U.S. ships by North Vietnamese soff N. Vietnam's coast that prompts President Johnson to ask for and get broad military powers ("all necessary measures") in Vietnam. Later information reveals the U.S. had been conducting secret raids against N. Vietnam, and Johnson had prepared his request to Congress months beforehand - this information begins to lead to American distrust of the government.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
Soviet Union closed off West Berlin from road and rail after the three Western powers merged their sections of Germany to form a unified West Germany. Western allies began an airlift to supply the city with food and other necessities. Within a year, the Soviets lifted the blockade.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
led the fight for Cuba's independence from Spain from 1895 through the Spanish-American War
Who is Jose Marti?
Regulated the economy during the war - encouraging businesses to use mass-production and standardize products. Prices and profits increased.
What is the War Industries Board?
A decisive naval and air battle fought in June 1942 between the US Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. It is widely considered a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II, effectively halting Japan's offensive momentum.
What is the Battle of Midway?
U.S. foreign policy implemented by the Richard Nixon administration to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by gradually shifting the responsibility of the war to the South Vietnamese military. This involved withdrawing U.S. troops while simultaneously expanding South Vietnam's military capabilities through training and equipment.
What is vietnamization?
A symbolic barrier separating the communist Eastern Bloc from the capitalist Western Bloc, particularly in Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
arranged for the US to buy Alaska from Russia for $7.2 Million, Alaska was also known as Sewards Folly or Sewards Icebox, the US was bought for 2 cents per acre, and it was rich in resources.
Who is William Seward?
Transition process where a nation at war returns to a state of peace. Factories must convert to peacetime production, agriculture demand diminishes, soldiers need to find jobs, and African Americans and women who filled empty jobs are suddenly pushed out by those returning soldiers.
What is demobilization?
Marines of Navajo descent who used their native language to transmit encrypted messages during World War II
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
Cease-fire agreement (January 1973) with the
North Vietnamese based on removal of all U.S.
troops. U.S. was still allowed to provide military
and economic aid to South Vietnam.
What are the Paris Peace Accords?
A US economic aid program aimed at rebuilding Western Europe after World War II and preventing the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?