US History 1
Soviet specialist George F. Kennan framed a coherent approach for America in the Cold War by advising a policy of
containment
Winston Churchill's characterization of the military and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union that separated Western and Eastern Europe
iron curtian
An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
bay of pigs
The Vietminh were
viatnemese comunists
A Nixon Administration policy that turned the bulk of the ground fighting over to the South Vietnamese Army
Vietnamization
The immediate crisis that prompted the announcement of the Truman Doctrine was related to the threat of a communist takeover in
greece and turkey
A post World War II military alliance between the United States and Western Europe powers
NATO
Student-run civil rights organization founded in 1960
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
gave President Johnson the power to wage undeclared war in Vietnam
A Vietnamese village where American soldiers massacred 500 civilians in 1968
My lai
Under the Truman Doctrine, the United States pledged to
support those who were resisting subjugation by communists
Americans and British used planes to resupply West Berlin to stymie the Soviet blockade of the city
birlin airlift
Eisenhower's term for the close ties between the defense industry and the Pentagon that might unduly influence government policy
Military industrial complex
a North Vietnamese and Vietcong assault on over 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam
The tet offensive
A 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into Communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1956
Geneva accords
President Truman's Marshall Plan called for
substantial financial assistance to rebuild Western Europe
The government's anti-communist crusade named for Senator Joseph McCarthy who spearheaded numerous governmental investigations into communist activities
Mccarthyism
How can the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 best be described?
as a serious blow to the labor movement
Based on public opinion polls taken between 1965 and 1973, how did most Americans feel about the war in Vietnam and the peace movement at home?
Most Americans disliked both the war and the peace movement.
relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China
Dentente
When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, President Kennedy ordered
a naval quarantine of that island
an influential 5,000 word missive by diplomat George Kennan that outlined why America needed to develop an aggressive foreign policy aimed at containing Soviet expansionist impulses
long telegram
What was the Fair Deal?
a set of domestic reforms proposed by President Truman
a botched Republican engineered break in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., that forced Nixon to resign in 1974
Watergate scandal (1972)
As a Nation of Islam spokesperson, Malcolm X advocated
black separatism and militancy