WW2
Fat Man and Little Boy are associated with these cities.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Why did China enter the Korean War?
Inchon, pushing N. Korean troops to the Chinese border.
Why did the U.S. support France over Ho Chi Minh in 1954?
Containment of Communism
How did JFK propose to deal with the "missile gap" between the U.S. and the USSR?
Flexible Response
What president is associated with the War on Poverty?
LBJ
Island Hopping began with this island in 1942.
Guadalcanal
Why was MacArthur fired?
Insubordination
The U.S. taking a more dominant role in Vietnam was called this.
Americanization
What was the Soviet response to the Bay of Pigs?
The Berlin Wall
What was the name given to LBJ's legislative agenda?
The Great Society
Einstein warned FDR about this.
German work on atomic weapons.
Who was president when the Korean War ended?
Eisenhower
How did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution change the war in Vietnam?
LBJ could do practically whatever he wanted in Vietnam.
Who first proposed the policy of Containment?
George Kennan
What are the two most prominent Great Society programs that still exist?
Medicare and Medicaid
The last Axis power to surrender.
Japan
What diplomatic doctrine was the U.S. pursuing in Korea?
Containment
What force the president to consult Congress when putting troops in combat zones?
War Powers Act
From which country did the U.S. remove missiles to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Turkey
What was JFK's legislative agenda called?
The New Frontier
What happened on 22 June 1941 that changed WW2?
Germany attacked USSR
In what year did the Korean War begin?
1950
Why did MLK think Vietnam was a civil rights issue?
Blacks were being drafted and getting killed in disproportionate numbers.
What was the first mutual defense pact in Europe?
NATO
What economic problem was caused by the Great Society programs?
Inflation