The act of setting limits on the amount of scarce goods people can buy.

This allowed President Johnson to escalate (increase) U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

June 6th, 1944, the Allied invasion of Europe.

A contest in which nations compete to build more and more powerful weapons.

A plan where American forces would capture some Japanese held islands and go around others in the Pacific region during World War II.

An imaginary line that divided democratic Western Europe from Communist Eastern Europe.

Turning point in the Vietnam War where more Americans began arguing that the U.S. should get out of the war.

A policy of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war (like when Britain and France gave in to Hitler in hopes of avoiding WW II).

A power struggle between the Communist and non-Communist world that began after WW II.

The belief that if one country fell to communism than the neighboring countries would follow step.