AMERICA & THE WORLD
A nation's strategy for interacting with other nations.
What is foreign policy?
The position of not taking sides in a conflict.
What is neutrality?
In this pivotal campaign, allied forces landed in Normandy, France, to liberate the country from German control.
What was the D-Day Invasion?
The conflict in which the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. threatened each other, but no direct military confrontation occured.
What was the Cold War?
States or regions withdrawing from a nation.
What is secession?
This agreement between nations is created to provide mutual help.
What is an alliance?
The policy of glorifying military power and having a standing army prepared for war.
What is militarism?
These are certificates sold by the United States government to pay for the war.
What are war bonds?
A social system in which all property is shared by the community, with ownership being ascribed to the community or to the state.
What is Communism?
This idea argued that one country becoming Communist would lead nearby nations to do the same.
What was Domino Theory?
This American foreign policy opposed interference in the Western Hemisphere from outside powers.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
Strong pride and devotion to one's country.
What is nationalism?
This act allowed war materials to be loaned to any country the president believed vital to the defense of the U.S.
What was the lend-lease act?
America's policy of opposing the spread of communism around the world.
What was containment?
This policy meant the U.S. and Russia would threaten war in response to any aggression.
The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit.
What is annexation?
This American ship exploded off the coast of Cuba, contributing to he start of the Spanish-American War.
What was the USS Maine?
This secret project created the atomic bomb.
What was the Manhattan Project?
The mutual alliance between the U.S., England, France, Canada, and other Western European countries.
What is NATO?
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. closer to war than ever.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The policy of expanding power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is imperialism?
This was the German policy of sinking all ships carrying war materials, enemy or neutral.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This African American squadron escorted bombers over Europe during WWII.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
These laws, enacted in 1917 and 1918, imposed hard penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against U.S. participation in WW1.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This congressional act allowed Lyndon B. Johnson to take military action in Vietnam.
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?