Cold War Basics
The United States used this program to land astronauts on the Moon.
What is the Apollo Program?
This theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, nearby countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This city fell to North Vietnamese forces in 1975, marking the end of the war.
What is Saigon?
This American company played a major role in U.S. involvement in Guatemala.
What is the United Fruit Company?
This period of reduced tensions between the United States and Soviet Union began in the 1970s.
What is Détente?
This Cuban leader came to power in 1959 and aligned Cuba with the Soviet Union.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This incident in 1964 led Congress to give President Johnson broad military powers in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
These 1973 agreements officially ended direct U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What are the Paris Peace Accords?
This Central American nation experienced a long and violent civil war during the Cold War.
What is El Salvador?
This treaty limited certain nuclear weapons and was signed during détente.
What is SALT I?
This event brought the United States and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This bombing campaign sought to weaken North Vietnam but failed to achieve its goals.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
Nixon expanded the war by ordering bombing campaigns in these two neighboring countries.
What are Cambodia and Laos?
These groups fought each other in Nicaragua during the Cold War.
Who are the Sandinistas and Contras?
This crisis began when American diplomats were held captive in Tehran.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
The movement of skilled workers from East Berlin to West Berlin was known by this term.
What is the Brain Drain?
This massacre of Vietnamese civilians became one of the most controversial events of the war.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
This Nixon policy aimed to gradually transfer fighting responsibilities to South Vietnamese forces.
What is Vietnamization?
This Chilean military leader took power after a U.S.-backed coup in 1973.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
This conflict is often called the Soviet Union's "Vietnam War."
What is the Soviet-Afghan War?
This Cold War strategy involved pushing dangerous situations to the edge of war without actually fighting.
What is Brinkmanship?
This surprise 1968 attack shocked Americans and weakened support for the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This event at an Ohio university resulted in National Guard troops killing four student protesters.
What are the Kent State Shootings?
This secret effort coordinated anti-communist governments in South America to suppress opposition.
What is Operation Condor?
Name one major similarity between the Soviet-Afghan War and the Vietnam War.
What is a superpower fighting a costly guerrilla war that became unpopular at home?