The 1910s
This movement called for women's right to vote.
What is suffrage?
These were planted by civilians in order to increase the US food supply.
What are victory gardens?
This symbol represents Communism in political cartoons.
What is the hammer and sickle?
This line is where Korea is divided into North and South.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The Vietnam War began when this man organized the Viet Minh to fight against French colonizers.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This policy largely kept the United States out of global warfare until the 1940s.
What is isolationism?
Citizens were given these to limit the amount of clothing, tires, food, and other goods they could purchase.
What are ration cards? (or ration coupons)
This separated Communist East Berlin from free West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This doctrine was used as the justification for the US entering the war in Korea.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This Communist group emerged in South Vietnam to overthrow the US-backed government.
What is the Viet Cong?
This movement called for making alcohol illegal.
What is temperance?
This campaign urged Black Americans to fight for victory at home as well as in Europe.
What is the Double-V campaign?
When the Soviet Union tried to take all of Berlin for itself by cutting off outside supply chains, the allies instituted this.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This occurs when two countries fight each other by supporting opposite sides in another country's war.
What is a proxy war?
This president initially expanded support for the South Vietnamese government.
Who was JFK?
This movement called for the elimination of slavery, and many members continued into the fight for suffrage.
What is abolition?
This event occurred when US military on shore leave decided to fight young Mexican-American men whom they saw as unpatriotic.
What are the Zoot Suit Riots?
This bungled military effort directly led to the Cuban Missile Crisis, as it pushed Fidel Castro to closer ties with the USSR.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This policy was an attempt to prevent Communism from spreading.
What is containment?
These chemicals were used during the Vietnam War to clear out the jungle landscape and to kill crops.
What are defoliants, herbicides, napalm, Agent Orange?
This convention kicked off the women's suffrage movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This battle was considered the turning point in the war in the Pacific.
What is the battle of Midway?
This theory proposed that if one country fell to Communism, it would take others down with it.
What is the Domino Effect?
This area lies between North and South Korea today.
What is the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)?
This action was a series of coordinated North Vietnamese attacks on South Vietnam.
What is the Tet Offensive?