11: interwar years, ww2, cold war

Question 1

FDR’s presidency

Answer 1

1929 - 1944
- Good Neighbor Policy
- Quarantine speech
- Neutrality Acts
- Cash & carry policy
- Destroyers-for-bases deal
- Lend-lease act
- Atlantic Charter
- Yalta Conference
- Tehran Conference
- Selective Service Act
- Pearl Harbor
- Japanese internment

Question 2

Truman’s presidency

Answer 2

1945 - 1953
- Containment policy
- A-Bomb ending the war
- Potsdam conference
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- Berlin Airlift
- Entry to NATO
- Refused to accept PRC
- Korean War (fired MacArthur)
- NSC-68 approved

Question 3

Eisenhower’s Presidency

Answer 3

1953 - 1961
- Massive retaliation policy
- Brinkmanship
- Spirit of Geneva
- Hungarian Revolt
- Cuban Revolution
- U-2 incident
- Sputnik shock
- NASA established + increase in STEM funding
- Military-industrial complex

Question 4

JFK’s presidency

Answer 4

1961 - 1963
- Flexible response policy
- Bay of Pigs
- Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 5

Johnson’s Presidency

Answer 5

• Continued containment
• Non-Proliferation Treaty

Question 6

Nixon’s Presidency

Answer 6

1969 - 1974
- Detente policy
- Visit to China
- SALT 1

Question 7

Neutrality Acts

Answer 7

Urged US noninvolvement and boycotting of belligerent (un-democratic) nations; US citizens also couldn’t travel on boats from countries involved in WW2

Question 8

Washington Conference (1921)

Answer 8

International disarmament conference

Question 9

Stimson Doctrine

Answer 9

US did not recognize the legitimacy of the Japanese government in China because they invaded Manchuria by force

Question 10

Office of Price Administration

Answer 10

Office created during WW2 to limit consumption through rationing and put a ceiling on how certain goods could cost

Question 11

Executive Order 8802

Answer 11

FDR’s Executive Order outlawing racial discrimination in hiring practices by government agencies and corporations involved in the war industries

Question 12

Executive Order 9066

Answer 12

Created Japanese internment camps

Question 13

Potsdam

Answer 13

Conference between US (Truman), Great Britain, and USSR (Stalin), that demanded:
- Unconditional surrender from Japan
- The partition of both Germany and Berlin
- Free elections in Poland
Basically solidified what was established at Yalta

Question 14

NSC-68

Answer 14

Government plan to allow essentially unrestricted federal spending on arms in the Cold War

Question 15

9-Power Treaty

Answer 15

Re-affirmed China’s Open Door Policy

Question 16

5-Power Treaty

Answer 16

Goal: safety of the Pacific / freedom of the seas

Question 17

Munich Agreement

Answer 17

Chamberlain negotiates with Hitler (appeases him), who agrees to stop invading European nations; doesn’t keep his end of the promise

Question 18

Atlantic Charter

Answer 18

US and Great Britain declared postwar goals, such as free trade and sovereignty (essentially established US + GB alliance)