Cold War Conflict
Eventual removal of missiles from Turkey helped resolve this dangerous moment
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Law mandating all communist organizations register with the government
What is the McCarran Act?
The opposite of a government-run, "socialist" economy
Country that became communist in 1949, contributing to the Domino Theory
What is China?
Liberalized sexuality, VWs, short skirts, and psychedelic drugs were all examples of this shift in the 1960s
What is counterculture?
What is mutually assured destruction?
Policy involving foreign aid to countries fighting "terrorist activities...led by Communists"
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
What is the credibility gap?
Year in which American-led invasion of Cuba failed
What is 1961?
Their refusal to provide testimony in Congress contributed to the blacklisting of many future artists
What is/who are the Hollywood Ten?
Eleven months of delivering supplies to city in Germany blockaded by Soviets
Wrote letters to the U.S. requesting support for independence from French colonial rule
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
1968 aggression by North Vietnam demonstrating vulnerabilities of American forces
What is the Tet Offensive?
Soviet-led alliance in response to NATO
The "author" of containment; Mr. X
Who is George Kennan?
Ambiguous events in these waters were used by the Johnson administration to push for increased military presence in Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
Elected in 1968; increased bombing in Laos and Cambodia
Who is Richard Nixon?
What is Korea?
Policy involving billions of dollars of economic aid to Western Europe post-WWII
What is the Marshall Plan?
The year in which the number of American troops in Vietnam peaked at over 500,000
What is 1968?
The year in which Vietnam was united under a communist government
What is 1975?