RED
The Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space, called _____________
Sputnik
Who was POTUS during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
John F. Kennedy
Tensions escalated dramatically as the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, with President JFK demanding the removal of the missiles from ______. at the ______________________________
Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis
Economic recovery program designed to revitalize war-torn Western Europe in the aftermath of World War II. ($13 Billion in 1946, $150 billion today)
Two examples of a violent anti-war protest in the United States was ______________
Kent St. Shooting, Jackson St. Shooting, 1968 DNC
A failed United States backed invasion of Cuba. This brought the USSR and Cuba closer together.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
TRIPLE POINTS!!!
The first individual in space was _________
Yuri Gagarin
Two traps used by the Viet Cong were
Punji Sticks, Bear Trap, Tiger Trap, Venus Fly Trap, Box Trap
A period of relaxed tensions during the Cold War during the early 1970's
*Extra 200 if you can provide an example*
Detente
Nixon visits China
SALT talks
Following the end of WWII (And the Korean War) Korea was divided at the ____________________
38th Parallel
Formalized the policy of containment aimed at preventing the spread of communism beyond its existing boundaries.
Truman Doctrine
_______________ was the reason why the United States joined the Vietnam War.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
a USSR military alliance designed to maintain Soviet influence in Eastern Europe
Warsaw Pact
political and social phenomenon characterized by Senator ____________ campaign to identify and expel supposed communists and communist sympathizers from American society during the early 1950s.
McCarthyism
The USSR created their own economic system following the end of WWII called ______
COMECON / COMINFORM
Why did the United States boycott the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow?
The USSR invaded Afghanistan
Ho Chi Minh
provides education and training benefits, including tuition, housing, and book stipends, to qualifying veterans and their families
GI Bill
a highly toxic herbicide that was widely used by the United States military during the Vietnam War to kill insurgents, destroy vegetation, and deny cover to enemy forces.
Agent Orange
a top-secret 1967 Department of Defense study detailing U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg to The New York Times in 1971.
Pentagon Papers
Inchon Landing
the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
Yalta Conference
This act authorized the president to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression" in Southeast Asia.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Company massacred between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians, mostly women, children, and elderly people
My Lai Massacre
Provide 3 events that happened in/near Berlin
Berlin Wall, Berlin Airlift, Berlin Blockade