World War II
This program provided war materials to Great Britain before the U.S. entered WWII.
What is Lend-Lease?
Women working in factories during WWII were symbolized by this nickname.
What is Rosie the Riveter?
This law helped veterans attend college and buy homes.
What is the GI Bill?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This war was the first “hot” conflict of the Cold War.
What is the Korean War?
This event brought the United States into World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
One reason for limited U.S. response to the Holocaust was this widespread attitude.
What is anti-Semitism?
This demographic trend increased consumer demand after WWII.
What is the baby boom?
This doctrine promised U.S. support to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This resolution allowed LBJ to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The U.S. used propaganda during WWII mainly for this purpose.
What is mobilizing citizens to support the war effort?
This campaign pushed for victory abroad and equality at home for African Americans.
What is the Double V Campaign?
This type of community grew rapidly due to highways and car culture.
What are suburbs?
This Cold War strategy involved pushing situations to the brink of war.
What is brinkmanship?
This event showed Americans that the Vietnam War was not being won.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This invasion marked the beginning of the Allies’ effort to liberate Western Europe.
What is D-Day, or Operation Overlord?
This group benefited from increased employment opportunities in wartime industries.
Who are African Americans and Latino Americans?
This act led to the expansion of suburban living and shopping centers.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
This theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, others would follow.
What is the domino theory?
This Supreme Court case ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Supreme Court case allowed Japanese American internment.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
Executive Order 8802 addressed this issue during WWII.
What is discrimination in defense industries?
This term describes the prosperous lifestyle of many Americans in the 1950s.
What is the affluent society?
This country’s government the U.S. attempted to overthrow during the Cold War.
What is Guatemala?
This 1965 law, part of LBJ's Great Society legislation, eliminated barriers preventing African Americans from voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?