History Questions

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"?