Causes of World War I
This treaty created resentment in Germany, and the conditions that encouraged retaliation
What is the Treaty of Versailles
What event led the U.S. to declare war on December 8, 1941?
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
To maintain international peace and security and foster cooperation among nations, world leaders created this organization
What is the United Nations
What is to provide economic and military assistance to countries that were resisting communist aggression
To prepare for this catastrophic event, 1950s families built backyard fallout shelters, stockpiled canned goods, and created a new pop culture based on those fears.
What is Nuclear War
What is the name of the political ideology that promotes nationalism through military force and is ruled by a dictator?
What is Fascism
Because of this event, thousands of young men enlisted in the Armed Services.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor
The U.S. Government used these types of posters to convince citizens to ration items such as meat and fuel, to plant “victory gardens," and to recruit young men to sign up for the army.
What are propaganda posters
This piece of legislation allowed the United States to give monetary aid to any country in Europe that accepted it to help rebuild their economies.
What is the Marshall Plan
Rather than fighting each other directly, the U.S. and USSR used these types of conflicts, such as those in Korea and Vietnam, to battle for global influence.
What are Proxy Wars
To avoid the mistakes that led the United States into World War I, the government passed a series of acts to avoid war in Europe and remain neutral.
What are the Neutrality Acts
What event signaled the end of World War II?
What is the bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
By actively blocking Jewish immigration during the war due to anti-Semitism, the United States indirectly contributed to this horrific event.
What is the Holocaust
This American policy statement led to military engagement in Korea due to America’s policy of containment.
What is the Truman Doctrine
This period of intense anti-communist hysteria in the 1950s was fueled by the fear of Soviet subversion and popularized by a namesake Wisconsin Senator.
What is the Red Scare
What is the name of the foreign policy that was used to avoid war by giving in to the demands of dictators such as Adolf Hitler?
What is appeasment
What executive order caused more than 100,000 Japanese Americans to be removed from areas of the West Coast and held in internment camps?
What is Executive Order 9066
During WWII, what effect did the war have on women’s roles in society?
What is women were encouraged to work in factories to help with the war effort
In response to Soviet aggression, this organization was created to provide military assistance to other member nations.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Beyond the physical presence of Soviet warheads, this 13-day 1962 standoff illustrated the extreme danger of "brinkmanship," where a single misunderstanding between JFK and Khrushchev could have triggered global nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
This act authorized the U.S. President to transfer arms and defense materials to nations deemed vital to U.S. national security in an effort to support our allies while avoiding war.
What is the Lend Lease Act
Why were Japanese Americans forcefully sent to internment camps by the United States government?
What is wartime hysteria, intense anti-Japanese racism, and unfounded fears of espionage following the Pearl Harbor attack
To defeat communism through a process of containment, President Truman initiated this foreign policy doctrine.
What is the Truman Doctrine
This Cold War conflict ended with North and South Korea still divided at the 38th parallel
What is the Korean War
This Wisconsin Senator rose to national prominence in the 1950s by claiming to have a list of over 200 communists working within the U.S. State Department and threat of communists overthrowing our government and country and took advantage of Americans' fears about the Soviet Union and communism.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy