- The Marshall Plan was enacted because the United States believed that communism was only successful in countries that
- confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that came close to starting a nuclear war
- Soviet-based economic assistance program for Eastern European states
- Which one of the major Allied nations was defeated by Germany and had to sign a separate peace to withdraw from the war?
- Name the four countries represented at the postwar peace conference held in Versailles, France.
- What is the name of the alliance that included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire?
- What was the name of the addition to the Monroe Doctrine that gave the U.S. a "police power" to intervene in Latin America?
- What is the name of the Mexican rebel leader who led an attack on a US town to provoke the US during the Mexican Revolution?
- What is the name of the alliance that included Great Britain, France, and Russia?
- Name the nation that ended its isolation when a U.S. fleet led by Commodore Matthew Perry came and negotiated a trade agreement with them.
- What was the name of the U.S. ship that sunk in Havana Bay whose sinking was blamed on the Spanish, which led to the start of the Spanish-American War?
- What was the nation where the bulk of the fighting of the Spanish-American War on land took place?
- Name the territory where the Spanish fleet in the Pacific Ocean was defeated by American commodore George Dewey during the war with Spain.
- What nation was taken over by the U.S. when it supported a revolution started by American business people there, so the U.S. could gain a naval base there?
- Name the territory that the U.S. supported a revolution in so that it could acquire the rights to build a water route there to shorten travel between two oceans.
- What nation had a revolution in which the U.S. intervened by taking over a port city to prevent rebels from gaining weapons there?
- What was the nation that the U.S. wanted opened for trade when it issued the Open Door Policy?
- What was the name of the fighting force led by future President Theodore Roosevelt that is given credit for making a brave charge that helped win the Spanish-American War?
- What was the territory gained by the U.S. in the Spanish-American War that is still a part of the U.S., and its people are U.S. citizens?
- What was the territory that the U.S. purchased from Russia in what was known as "Seward's Folly"?