Vietnam War
The congressional act that allowed U.S. President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The nickname for the Korean War
What is the Forgotten War
This was the first man in space
Who was Yuri Gagarin
Policy meant to contain communism
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Churchill's term for the Soviet-dominated east and the U.S.-dominated west
What is the Iron Curtain
The name of the bombing campaign waged by the U.S. over North Vietnam.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder
The latitude line dividing north and south Korea
What is the 38th parallel
The first satellite
What was Sputnik
This senator started the Red Scare in the U.S.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
The soviet response to NATO
What was the Warsaw Pact
This was the name of the members of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam (North)
What is the Viet Cong
The 2.5 mile stretch between north and south Korea where the two sides can meet.
What is the DMZ?
This country put the first woman in space
What was USSR
This aided European countries trying to recover from WWII in the hope they wouldn't fall to communism.
What was the Marshall Plan?
The last leader of the USSR, who wanted to radically restructure the country.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev
The surprise attack by the Viet Cong on S. Vietnamese cities. US finally had advantage.
What was the Tet Offensive
What is China
The first man on the moon
Who was Neal Armstrong
This was the US and British mission to drop food after a Soviet blockade
What was the Berlin Airlift?
This Gorbachev policy meant openness
What was glasnost?
The line of latitude that separated north and south Vietnam
What is the 17th parallel
What is communist
What did Armstrong say when he landed on the moon?
What is: One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
The president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who was JFK?
This Gorbachev policy meant restructuring, specifically of the economy.
What was peristroika?