Ideas
what policy aimed to stop the spread of communism?
containment
What happened after the U.S. left Vietnam?
North Vietnam took over
What scandal forced Nixon to resign?
watergate
truman doctrine
What was the turning point of the Vietnam war?
Tet offensive
What U.S. fear was caused by communist spies?
Red Scare
What was the term that if one country fell to Communism surrounding countries would too?
Domino theory
What was LBJ’s “lie“ to enter the Vietnam war?
Gulf of Tonkin
What president stopped McCarthy?
Eisenhower
Iron Curtain Speech
What was the name of the communist guerilla fighters in North Vietnam?
Viet Cong
What was the U.S. space program that got to the moon?
Apollo
What pact united communist countries under the Soviets?
Warsaw Pact
What were the people who supported the Vietnam war in the U.S known as?
Hawks
What was the name of Nixon’s strategy to take military out of Vietnam?
Vietnamization