US Foreign Conflicts

Why did the US enter World War I?

• Germany sank the Lusitania ship with American civilians.

• Japan attacked US naval base Pearl Harbor.

• Soviet Union supplied Cuban with nuclear missiles aimed at US.

• Communist North Korea invaded South Korea.

Why did the US enter World War II?

• Germany sank the Lusitania with American civilians onboard.

• Japan attacked US naval base Pearl Harbor.

• Soviet Union supplied Cuba with nuclear missiles aimed at US.

• Communist North Korea invaded South Korea.

What was the failed attempt by the US to overthrow communist leader, Fidel Castro, in Cuba?

• Korean War

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Vietnam War

An economic system where the government controls the economy.

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Containment

• Isolationism

War fought to stop the spread of communism that resulted in both countries split at the 38th parallel called the DMZ.

• Vietnam War

• Bay of Pigs

• Korean War

• World War II

US lost this war in southeast Asia trying to stop the spread of communism.

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• World War I

The dictator of Iraq during the Persian Gulf War

• Adolf Hitler

• Kim Il Sung

• Saddam Hussein

• George Bush

Reason the US invaded Iraq in 2003 and started Iraq War.

• To stop the spread of communism

• Fear of nuclear weapons in Iraq (weapons of mass destruction)

• Cuba had nuclear missiles aimed at the US

• Japan attacked Pearl Harbor US naval base

Term given to period of tension between the United States and Soviet Union after World War II

• Cold War

• World War I

• Iraq War

• World War II