World Wars
The US armed forces commanded by General John J. Pershing in WWI.
What was the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)?
Executive Order issued by President Truman which desegregated the Armed Forces in 1948.
What was Executive Order 9981?
Legislation passed in 1947 that merged the War Department and Navy Department into the Department of Defense.
What was the National Security Act of 1947?
Conservative activist who led the fight against the Equal Rights Amendment.
Who was Phyllis Schlafly?
Congress' attempt to reaffirm its check on presidential power to commit the US military to war.
What was the War Power's Act?
Order that prohibited Black soldiers at Camp Funston, KS from "going where their presence will be resented."
What was Bulletin 35?
Linn calls this process: "dehumanizing, demoralizing and humiliating."
What is demobilization?
Multi-national force created to support the South Korean Army in 1950.
What is the United Nations Command (UNC)?
President who called for an end to the draft in October 1968.
Who was Richard Nixon?
What was the Persian Gulf War?
Act that reorganized the Army to re-establish the National Guard and Reserves.
What was the National Defense Act of 1920?
According to Linn, this became the "cornerstone of the army's postwar personnel policy."
What was Universal Military Training?
Marks the border between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
Advisory committee created in 1951 to encourage recruitment of women into the armed services.
What is the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS)
Military operations in response to the terrorist attacks on the US on 9/11/2001.
What were Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom?
What was the Women's Army Corps (WAC)?
Legislation meant to improve managing the promotion and retirement of officers.
What was the Officer Personnel Act of 1947?
Largely failed attempt to resettle rural population of South Vietnamese from perceived Communist influences.
What was the Strategic Hamlet Program?
Who was William Westmoreland?
The Mosul Study Group concluded that fighting in this kind of environment "limits the adversary and friendly forces's line of sight."
What is a "dense urban environment"?
The Army oversaw the development of this weapon in secret.
Who was GEN Maxwell D. Taylor?
Gregory Daddis calls this the "ubiquitous and pejorative label for American strategy in Vietnam."
What is attrition?
What was "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"?
Carter Malkasian concludes his article wondering if this is "truly worth it."
What is intervention?