Ideologies/Theories
This economic system believes that there should be private ownership of goods and assets and strive towards profit
What is Capitalism?
The tense standoff between the two nuclear superpowers from the end of WWII to the early 90s.
What was the Cold War?
This president dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who was Harry S Truman?
This nation practiced the economic system of communism and controlled multiple satellite countries.
What was the USSR?
This man likely assassinated JFK.
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Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
The idea that if one country is to fall to Communism, that others will soon follow unless stopped.
What is the Domino Theory?
American invovlement in this country saw a brutal slog through a country's civil war and lost by the end of it by pulling out.
What was the Vietnam War?
This was the Soviet leader during WWII and into the early 1950s.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
This was created to divide east and west Berlin between the Communist East and Capitalist West.
What was the Berlin Wall?
This plan looked to isolate Communism in nations and reduce soviet influence following WWII.
What was Containment?
Nuclear superpowers with tenuous peace based on the fact that if one should launch a nuclear warhead, the world shall end.
What is Mutually Assured Desturction (M.A.D.)?
This was also known as the Forgotten War and took place soon after WWII.
What was the Korean War?
This man was lead a brutal campagin against alleged communists before he was discredited by a single comment and fell from the spotlight in disgrace.
Who was Joe McCarthy?
Winston Churchill claimed in a speech that this had descended across Europe and cast a dark shadow over the land.
What was the Iron Curtain?
Under the Truman Doctrine, this plan saw the funneling of money into war torn Europe to help rebuild Europe following the war.
What was the Marshall Plan?
The state controls the means of production and pays the people of the state according to their abilities and needs without private corporate interference.
What is Socialism?
The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted this many days and was the closest that the world ever come to complete nuclear warfare?
What was thirteen (13) days?
This president sold his peanut farm before taking office and was the immediate predecessor of Ronald Regan.
Who was Jimmy Carter?
The Manhatten Project was called as such because the original testing location for the nuclear bombs was here.
What is New Mexico?
This military operation saw the overthrow of Prime Minister Mossadegh in Iran by the order of President Eisenhower.
What was Operation Ajax?
This was Nixon's plan to reduce American invovlment in the Vietnam war by training ARVN forces to fight agaisnt the North.
What is Vietnamization?
This event saw an escalation of American Armed forces into Vietnam and was a blatant lie by the American government.
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
This fourteen-year old girl was the central figure in a supreme court case that saw the extension of students rights when it came to freedom of speech against the city of Des Moines.
Who was Mary Beth Tinker?
This country saw their leadership toppled by American agents by ousting the leader, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, from power by calling him a Communist.
What was Guatemala?
This was the name of the massacre that saw hundreds of civilians killed during the Vietnam War and was covered up by American officials.
What was the Mai Lai Massacre?