using an appropriate amount of force for the problem we could never use nuclear weapons in Vietnam
What is Flexible Response
100
JFK’s assassin, lived in the USSR, Kennedy died in Dallas
Panel investigates Kennedy’s death, declares one killer
What is Lee Harvey Oswald
200
(Mutual Assured Destruction) “even if you get the first strike on me, I will wipe you out” intended to calm things down
What is MAD
200
preempt to wipe out the opponent.
What is First Strike
200
volunteer economic missionaries to help people get to a better life
What is Peace Corps
300
long range nuclear missile
ex: Atlas, Minot Man 1, 2, 3, Peacekeeper
What is ICMB
300
when brinksmanship comes alive
Khrushchev’s gamble fails
closest we ever came to the end of the world
What is Cuban Missile Crisis
300
Kennedy’s package of programs
What is New Frontier
400
put up by the East Germans to stop the movement of its citizens to West Berlin, and freedom symbolizes cold war
What is Berlin Wall
400
limiting the number of weapons
Nixon gets real limits on nuclear weapons, Kennedy gets a limited nuclear test band
What is Arms Control
400
refer to homework
What is Lyndon Baines Johnson
500
Failed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles
What is Bay of Pigs
500
leader of the Soviet Union from 1953-1964, tried to move the USSR away from the cult of Stalin, Failed
Links with cold war, USSR, Cuban Missile Crisis, U-2, JRK, Sputnik, Arms Race
What is Khrushchev
500
President from 1960-1963 (assassinated)
accomplished very little, but highly revered in retrospect
links with everything else