Cold War Basics
This type of war involved no direct fighting between superpowers
What is a cold war?
The line that divided Korea after WWII
What is the 38th Parallel?
President who sent advisors, not troops.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This system randomly selected men for military service in 1969
What is the draft or the draft lottery?
This doctrine promised to support free nations resisting communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The two superpowers in the Cold War
Who were the United States and the Soviet Union?
The event that started the Korean War
What is North Korea invading South Korea?
President who escalated the war using the Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This group played a major role in Anti-War protests?
Who are college students? (also, veterans, activists)
This plan gave economic aid to rebuild Europe
What is the Marshall Plan?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism
What is containment?
This general led US forces at Inchon
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
Nixon's policy of training South Vietnamese forces
What is Vietnamization?
This event involved Nation Guard troops firing on college students
What are the Kent State shootings?
This theory suggested communism would spread like falling dominoes.
What is the domino theory?
The idea that nuclear war would destroy both sides
What is Mutually Assured Destruction? (MAD)
This country entered the war in 1950 to support North Korea
What is China?
The conflict spread into which two countries under Nixon
What are Cambodia and Laos?
This technology brought the Vietnam War into American homes.
What is television?
This alliance was the Soviet response to NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This alliance was led by the United States in 1949
What is NATO?
The Korean War ended with this, not a peace treaty.
What is an armistace?
This term describes the gap between government claims and reality in Vietnam.
What is the credibility gap?
This boxer refused the draft and became a symbol of protest
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Truman warned that failing to act would risk this.
What is world peace/global stability?