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Imperialism
World Wars
Cold War
Middle East
Vietnam/Korea
100
The United States building project that provided a quick travel route from the Pacific to the Atlantic for trade and military purposes.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
The foreign policy in that kept the United States from joining to League of Nations.
What is isolationism
100
The abbreviated name for the group of allied North American and European powers predating the UN and the Allied Powers.
What is NATO
100
The nation was created following World War II as a new home for victims of the Holocaust.
What is Israel
100
The Korean War was the first military involvement for the United States as a member of what organization?
What is United Nations
200
A chain of Pacific islands that became the 50th state in 1959
What is Hawaii?
200
Name two of the four causes that influenced the United States to enter WWI.
What are American investments in Allied Nations, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Propaganda, Zimmerman Telegram
200
The President that initiated the Detente movement and things like the SALT treaties.
What is Nixon
200
This 1950's presidential policy expanded the United State's containment of communism to the Middle East.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
200
Which Congressional action gave LBJ the ability to administer the Vietnam conflict with no legislative oversight?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
300
Territorial gains for the United States because of the Spanish American War
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
300
What nation and what event forced the United States into World War II
What is Japan and Pearl Harbor
300
What two events associated with Cuba during JFK's presidency were key factors in the Cold War?
What is Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs Invasion
300
This resource continues to drive U.S. and global interest in the Middle East even today.
What is oil?
300
Which Vietcong/North Vietnamese military action played a pivotal role in negatively influencing American public opinion through the media's reporting?
What is the Tet Offensive
400
The primary reason imperialism supporters wanted the United States to expand its territory.
What are new markets?
400
What two groups experienced greater economic opportunity due to United States involvement in WWII?
What is Women and African Americans
400
Which United States international economic recovery program helped rebuild Europe and increased Soviet/US tensions?
What is Marshal Plan/European Recovery Act
400
This Arab organization controls access to and exportation of oil from the Middle East.
What is OPEC?
400
The president that was responsible for the escalation of the number of American soldiers in South Vietnam from 1964-1968?
Who is Lyndon Johnson
500
This was added to the Monroe Doctrine and extended United States influence over the Caribbean.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
500
Which United States research project played a key role in forcing the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII?
What is the Manhattan Project
500
What was the United States policy toward the expansion of Communism?
What is Containment
500
The war that began because of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
What is the Persian Gulf War?
500
Nixon's and future presidents' abilities to commit the United States military to foreign wars without Congressional approval was limited by the ...
What is War Powers Act