A policy by the US to assist the British and other nations fighting Hitler in Europe with supplies and war weapons.
What is Lend Lease and the "cash and carry policy"?
100
Symbol for American women at work in factories during WWII.
What is Rosie the Riveter?
100
President Truman adopted this policy toward communism at the end of the war.
What is containment?
100
An explosion of the American birthrate at the end of WWII.
What is the baby boom?
200
Created cheap electricity in the south.
What is the TVA?
200
Hitler invaded this nation setting off WWII.
What is Poland?
200
Scrap drives, victory gardens, and coupons were all part of the American effort to support troops with supplies needed to carry out the war.
What is rationing?
200
A policy by President Truman to aid any nation under threat from communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
The first planned suburbs outside of inner cities requiring workers to commute to cities for work.
What is Levittown?
300
Provided union workers an opportunity to collectively bargain (negotiate) with employers.
What is the Wagner Act?
300
The largest amphibious invasion in history conducted by American troops on the shores of France.
What is D-Day?
300
The effort on the part of Americans to help the government fund the war.
What is the purchase of War Bonds?
300
American effort to aid and rebuild war torn Europe was highly successful and gained America many allies and goodwill at the end of WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
A modern witch hunt that targeted citizens suspected of communist political associations.
What is McCarthyism?
400
The political attempt to put Democratic judges on the Supreme Court by FDR.
What is "courtpacking"?
400
To defeat the Japanese in the Pacific, the US had to conduct this war time strategy to defeat Japanese territories.
What is "island hopping"?
400
Japanese Americans property was confiscated and the citizens were forced to move to these in California and many communities in the mid-west.
What are internment camps?
400
An alliance with other nations in reaction to the growth and threat of communism felt at the end of WWII.
What is NATO?
400
War erupted here when northern communists invaded the southern democratic part of a nation aided by communist China ending in a stalemate at the 39th parallel and a demilitarized zone.
What is the Korean War?
500
FDR promised this to Americans when he became president during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
500
Led by Robert Oppenheimer, this project at Los Alamos created "Little Boy".
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
American and Japanese relations were strained in 1941 by the action by the Americans in reaction to Japanese aggression in the Pacific.
What is an embargo on oil?
500
This event launched the space race and the American program, NASA.
What is Sputnik?
500
Connected American cities together, and put Americans on the road to the rest of the nation at the close of WWII.