These were the name of the acts that were passed by the US before the war started that said that we could not sell weapons to any country at war
What are the Neutrality Acts?
100
After the war, the Soviets controlled this section of Germany and Berlin
What is East Germany?
100
This allowed our president to give Turkey and Greece weapons to stop them from becoming communist
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
This is the BEST example of Brinkmanship in the Cold War
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
This was the incident that got us into Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
200
This law stated that Britain could purchase weapons from us and ship them back to England themselves without violating our isolationism
What is the Cash and Carry Policy?
200
This was the code name for the creation of the atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
This policy allowed the US to give money to Europe to rebuild after WWII
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This triggered the beginning of the space race
What is the launching of the satellite Sputnik?
200
This was the major outcome of the Korean War
What is the borders stayed the same - successful containment?
300
This allowed the US government to give tanks and weapons to England for payment at a later time
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
300
In order to get Japan out of the war, we attempted to make their empire smaller. This was time consuming and called this
What is island-hopping?
300
This was the policy that stated if one NATO country is attacked, we act as if all NATO countries were attacked
What is collective security?
300
This was the group in our legislative branch that tried to test the loyalty of Hollywood and other Americans (before McCarthyism)
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
300
This was an herbicide used during the war that actually did lasting harm to Vietnam and our troops
What is Agent Orange?
400
This was the meeting where FDR and Stalin decided to split Germany after the war
What is the Yalta Conference?
400
This was another name for the D-Day invasion
What is the invasion of Normandy or Operation Overlord?
400
The Eisenhower Doctrine was meant to prevent the spread of Communism in this region
What is the Middle East?
400
This was one CLEAR result of the Cuban Missile Crisis
What is the USSR withdrew their missiles from Cuba, we withdrew our missiles from Turkey, Test ban treaty, hot-line created?
400
This was signed by Nixon, and it limited the power of a president to wage war
What is the War Powers Resolution?
500
This was a created at a secret meeting between FDR and Churchill in Canada that laid the groundwork for the United Nations
What is the Atlantic Charter?
500
After the war, this was passed by Congress to give veterans mortgages and educations for little to no money
What is the GI BILL?
500
Both Truman "losing China" and the Soviet testing of the first atomic bomb happened in this year
What is 1949?
500
This is one example of detente
What is Nixon - SALT, visiting China, visiting the USSR?
500
This was the massive coordinated attack by the Vietcong throughout Vietnam around New Years Day in 1965. We realized we may be losing the war at this point