WW2 Foriegn Policy
This foreign policy approach involves a country avoiding political or military involvement in international conflicts and alliances.
What are neutrality/isolationism?
During World War II, the U.S. saw a dramatic labor shift as millions of these workers entered industrial and defense jobs to replace men serving in the military.
Who were women?
On December 7, 1941, this surprise Japanese attack on a U.S. naval base prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt to declare war, calling it “a date which will live in infamy.”
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Officially called the European Recovery Program, this 1948 U.S. initiative provided over $13.3 billion in aid to rebuild Western European economies after World War II, helping to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The United States entered this 1950–1953 conflict in Asia to stop the spread of communism from the North to the South, putting the Cold War policy of containment into action.
What was the Korean War?
These 1930s laws were passed to keep the United States out of foreign wars by banning the sale of arms and restricting loans to countries at war.
What are the Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937?
On the U.S. home front, the government used posters, films, and radio campaigns to encourage enlistment, war production, and conservation, shaping public opinion and boosting support for the war effort.
What was the use of propaganda?
In February 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met at this meeting to discuss postwar Europe, including the division of Germany and plans for the United Nations.
What was the Yalta Conference?
During the early 1950s, fear of communist influence in the U.S. led to this term, when government officials often violated individuals’ civil liberties by accusing them of disloyalty without proper evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
The 1957 launch of this Soviet satellite spurred the United States to dramatically expand science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to compete in the space race.
What was Sputnik?
This decision by the United States Senate weakened the League of Nations and reduced its ability to prevent aggression in the 1930s, contributing to the outbreak of World War II.
What was the U.S. refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?
This government agency, created in 1942, coordinated the production of weapons, vehicles, and supplies, converting peacetime industries into wartime manufacturing.
What was the War Production Board?
This top-secret U.S. research and development project created the first atomic bombs, ultimately used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
What was the Manhattan Project?
When the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin in 1948, the United States and its allies responded by flying in food and supplies for nearly a year in this massive humanitarian and logistical effort.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
During the 1950s, U.S. schools taught children this safety drill to protect themselves in case of a nuclear attack, reflecting the fear of atomic war.
What was “Duck and Cover”?
This 1941 U.S. policy allowed America to supply Allied nations like Great Britain and the Soviet Union with weapons and war materials while remaining officially neutral.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Massive wartime production and labor shifts during World War II caused this economic indicator in the United States to drop dramatically, virtually ending the Great Depression.
What was the unemployment rate?
This 1944 Supreme Court case upheld the government’s wartime authority to place Japanese Americans in internment camps, despite challenges to their constitutional rights.
What was Korematsu v. United States?
This government committee investigated alleged disloyalty and subversive activities by Americans, particularly targeting Hollywood figures and labor leaders during the early Cold War.
What was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev resolved the standoff through this approach, avoiding nuclear war by negotiating the removal of missiles from Cuba and U.S. missiles from Turkey.
What was diplomacy?
In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used this phrase to describe the United States supplying weapons and materials to Allied nations fighting in World War II.
What is the “Arsenal of Democracy”?
During World War II, this Harlem Renaissance poet and activist highlighted the struggles of African Americans at home, urging the nation to live up to its democratic ideals even as Black soldiers fought overseas.
Who was Langston Hughes?
President Harry S. Truman authorized the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for this primary reason.
To prevent a costly U.S. invasion of Japan?
During the height of the nuclear arms race, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were tried and convicted for this crime, accused of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
What was espionage?
This Cold War theory suggested that if one country in a region fell to communism, neighboring countries would likely follow, influencing U.S. involvement in places like Vietnam and Korea.
What was the Domino Theory?