Three world leaders at the Yalta Conference in Feb 1945.
Who were Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt?
During the Cold War what two non-european countries were split between Communism and Non- Communism?
Vietnam and Korea
The murder of this 14 year old boy helped gain momentum for the CRM due to the outrage it caused
Who is Emmett Till?
Foreign Policy which states that the U.S. must prevent communism from spreading.
What is containment?
This president increased American troops in Vietnam and called for a 35,000 draft each month
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
The USA and the Soviet Union were involved in a conflict where the Soviets established a missile base in Cuba that led to a 13 day confrontation
What is Cuban Missile Crisis?
What was the Alliance that supported the United States and Democratic ideas during the Cold War?
NATO
MLK's approach to the Civil Rights Movement
What is Civil Disobedience?
Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall as well.
What is Domino Theory?
mass murder of unarmed civilians during a "search and destroy" mission
What is My Lai Massacre?
What was the term that was used to explain Soviet Occupation of eastern Europe following WW2?
Iron Curtain
Event that saw the US and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets set a blockade.
Berlin Airlift
Literacy tests were outlawed as a result of this law.
What is Voting Rights Act 1965?
What was one difference between the Vietnam and Korean War?
Vietnam fully fell to communism, where Korea was split into two separate countries - one communist, one democratic
policy enacted in early 1969 by the Richard Nixon administration aimed at ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
What is Vietnamization?
The USSR and the USA were a part of this when they were attempting to build up their weapons and technology to one up the other?
What is the Arms Race?
The map above is best understood in the context of the
Marshall Plan to rebuild Western European economies
United States’ policy of containment of communism
European Economic Union for a unified European economy
United States’ attempts to improve relations with the Soviet Union
United States’ policy of containment of communism
This successfully ended all segregation in the US, supporting the Brown v. Board decision
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Famous trail in the Vietnam War used by the Viet Cong to transport supplies and troops.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Congress granted President Lyndon B. Johnson sweeping authority to deploy military force in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war.
What is Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution?
US military operation planning to overthrow Fidel Castro in 1961
What is Bay of Pigs?
US policy pledging to defend other nations that were at risk of falling to communism
What is Truman Doctrine?
Compare & Contrast MLK with Malcolm X
MLK: non-violent civil disobedience, pastor, focused on changing law, gained large scale support
Malcolm X: self-defense, pastor, empowering black communities to be themselves, was highly criticized
The USA and the Soviet Union were involved in a conflict where the Soviets established a missile base in Cuba that led to a 13 day confrontation
Cuban Missile Crisis
New York Times publishes these?
exposed how presidential administrations, lied to the public and Congress about the Vietnam War.
What is The Pentagon Papers?