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This toxic carcinogenic herbicide was used by the United States to kill the jungles in Vietnam.
What is Agent Orange?
This legislation authorized use of force in Vietnam and was passed after US destroyers believed they had been attacked by North Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This attempted invasion of Cuba failed due to a lack of support from the Cuban people.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This event was the closest the United States and Soviet Union came to a nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
He was assassinated in 1968 while campaigning to win the Democratic nomination for president.
Who is Robert (Bobby) F Kennedy?
This structure was built by East Germany in 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing to West Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Johnson was willing to get involved in Vietnam despite its low chances of success because he didn't want to be viewed as another Eisenhower who let this country fall to communism.
What is China?
This event became the turning point in the war when it exposed how the government had been misleading the public about the progress in Vietnam.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This was the reason Johnson sent troops into Panama in 1964.
What is Panamanians rioting over US control of the Panama Canal?
After Yuri Gagarin become the first human in orbit, Kennedy made this lofty promise to the world.
What is that the US would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade (1960s)?
He was the vice president under Johnson who was nominated by the Democrats in the presidential election of 1968.
Who is Hubert Humphrey?
This NASA program eventually put a man on the moon.
What is the Apollo Program?
The North Vietnamese supplied the Vietcong in South Vietnam via this route through Cambodia.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
The Nixon administration failed in their attempt to prevent publication of this document by the New York Times.
What is the Pentagon Papers?
Arab nations took this action after the United States supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
What is an oil embargo on the US?
He was the first American in space.
Who is John Glenn?
Who is George Wallace?
This program was launched by Kennedy in 1961 in which young Americans helped with education, healthcare, and other projects in developing nations.
What is the Peace Corps?
What is bombing Vietnam and Cambodia?
These were two of the three primary reasons for American protests of the Vietnam War.
What is that it was 1) morally wrong, 2) impossible to win, 3) a poor man's war?
Juan Bosch, president of this country, was overthrown by a US miliary backed coup.
What is the Dominican Republic?
In order to reduce the threat of nuclear war at its height in 1962, Kennedy promised the Soviets he would remove American nuclear weapons from this country.
What is Turkey?
Robert McNamara resigned from his role as this after doubting the United States could win the Vietnam War.
What is Secretary of State?
This was the brief conflict in 1967 between Israel, Syria, Egypt and Jordan.
What is the Six Day Way?
He was the commander of US forces during the Vietnam War.
Who is William Westmoreland?
William Calley was court martialed and imprisoned for his role in the massacre in this Vietnamese village.
What is My Lai?
Salvador Allende was the Marxist president of this country who was overthrown in a US backed military coup, leading to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
What is Chile?
Nixon hoped to use trade and arms limitation as ways to reach a stable relationship with the Soviet Union and China, known by this term.
What is détente?
He was the National Security Advisor to Richard Nixon.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
This agreement between the United States, Soviet Union, Canada, and European leaders settled post-World War II borders and promised human rights and fundamental freedoms for citizens of member countries.
What are the Helsinki Accords?