Containment & Truman
This was the main goal of U.S. foreign policy during the early Cold War.
What is containment?
This plan gave economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This theory argued that if one country fell to communism, nearby countries might also fall.
What is the domino theory?
The Soviet launch of this satellite shocked the United States in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
The fall of this wall symbolized the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This president announced the Truman Doctrine in 1947.
Who is Harry Truman?
The Marshall Plan was created mainly because Europe was suffering from this.
What is destruction/devastation from World War II?
The War Powers Resolution was passed partly because of this war.
What is the Vietnam War?
After Sputnik, the U.S. increased funding for this subject area.
What is science education?
The Berlin Wall divided this city, in this country
What is Berlin, Germany
The Truman Doctrine promised to help nations resisting this ideology in these countries
What is Communism (Greece & Turkey)
The Marshall Plan helped contain communism by doing this.
Rebuilding weak economies so countries would be less likely to turn communist.
The War Powers Resolution limited the power of this branch/person.
Who is the president/executive branch?
This law increased support for science, research, and education after Sputnik.
What is the National Defense Education Act?
This U.S. president famously challenged Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
Who is Ronald Reagan?
The Berlin Airlift was a U.S. response to this Soviet action.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
These two countries received some of the most Marshall Plan aid.
What are France and the United Kingdom?
This 1964 event gave President Johnson greater authority to increase U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident/Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The Space Race eventually helped lead to this major 1969 achievement.
What is the Apollo moon landing?
This Soviet leader introduced reforms called glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Explain how the Truman Doctrine and Berlin Airlift are connected.
Both were examples of containment because the U.S. tried to stop Soviet/communist expansion without directly attacking the USSR.
Why would the Soviet Union oppose the Marshall Plan?
The Soviets saw it as the U.S. gaining influence in Europe and blocking communist expansion.
This major 1968 attack by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong shocked Americans and made many question whether the U.S. was winning the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
Why did Sputnik affect American schools?
Americans feared falling behind the Soviet Union, so schools emphasized science, math, and technology.
This Cold War alliance remained in existence even after the Soviet Union collapsed, raising questions about its new purpose.
What is NATO?