Strategic Planning & Implementation Flashcards

Which three goals defined the New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt?

Answer: Relief, recovery, and reform

The New Deal aimed to relieve suffering, restore the economy, and reform the financial system.

What was the purpose of the Allied D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944?

Answer: To open a Western Front in France and liberate Europe from Nazi control

Operation Overlord landed troops in Normandy, France, and began the push toward Germany.

What was the island-hopping strategy in the Pacific during World War II?

Answer: Capturing selected islands as bases while bypassing heavily fortified ones

The strategy skipped some strongholds, cutting off supplies and moving air bases closer to Japan.

What was the main goal of the Marshall Plan?

Answer: To rebuild Western European economies and limit the spread of communism

U.S. aid helped war-torn Europe recover, which reduced the appeal of communism.

What did the Truman Doctrine commit the United States to do?

Answer: Support free peoples resisting communist takeover, beginning with Greece and Turkey

Truman's 1947 policy of containment pledged aid to countries threatened by communism.

What was Virginia's policy of Massive Resistance in the 1950s?

Answer: A plan to resist school desegregation after Brown v. Board of Education, including closing some schools

Led by Senator Harry F. Byrd, the policy led to school closings in places such as Prince Edward County.

How did President Kennedy respond to the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962?

Answer: He ordered a naval quarantine of Cuba and demanded the missiles be removed

The blockade avoided direct attack, and the crisis ended when the Soviets removed the missiles.