The movement of North American and Pacific plates cause earthquakes in California. The Pacific plate is moving northwest. It moves horizontally past the North American plate, its rate of movement is two inches per year. This horizontal movement causes earthquakes in California.
The boundary between these two plates is known as San Andrea fault. Pacific plate is the largest tectonic plate with an area of 103 square kilometres, it lies beneath the pacific ocean.
Hawaiian Islands were also formed 4.5 million years ago due to a hot spot in the middle of Pacific plate.
A Red Scare is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States which are referred to by this name.
Since they control lots of island groups which makes thing hard to border up and defend on all sides... Unlike in Germany which they had 2 fronts and it was easier to have bunkers to defend certain location...
Some volunteer others got drafted if you were 18 and met physical conditions you were required to go to war it angered many Americans because they were against the war and because 18 year old boys were being taken to fight
