Policy
Korean War
Vietnam War
Cold War
Miscellaneous
100
This allowed for 400 million dollars in aid to be sent to Turkey and Greece to fight the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
The _____ invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War.
What is North Korean Communists
100
This granted the president broad military powers in Vietnam.
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
100
Both the US and Soviet Union joined this peace keeping group after WWII.
What is the United Nations?
100
This action provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
200
This aid program was created to help Europe rebuild after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This man was the leader of the Communists in China.
What is Mao Zedong?
200
This South Vietnamese communist group fought against the South and US.
What is the Vietcong?
200
This term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the US and the Soviet Union that began at the end of WWII.
What is the Cold War?
200
This called for a gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
300
This was the US policy to keep communism from spreading during the Cold War.
What is containment policy?
300
The 38th parallel became an important dividing line between what two nations?
What is North and South Korea?
300
He led the Vietnamese communist party.
What is Ho Chi Minh?
300
Who led a “witch hunt” for Communist spies in the United States government during the early 1950s?
What is Joseph McCarthy?
300
What was seen on TV that was the most effective in convincing Americans that the Vietnam war was not winnable?
What is body counts?
400
This policy was intended to defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country.
What is Eisenhower Doctrine?
400
Although Mao Zedong won the hearts of the Chinese peasants, he failed to win American support because he was what?
What is a communist?
400
This murder of more than 200 innocent Vietnamese villagers by US troops shocked Americans.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
400
Which war during the Cold War is most associated with domino theory?
What is the Vietnam War?
400
From the end of World War II until the 1980’s, the United States’ main foreign policy goal was to do what?
What is contain the spread of communism?
500
This US policy meant that the US would go to the edge of war in order to keep the peace.
What is brinkmanship?
500
This group was defeated in China’s civil war despite 2 billion dollars in aid sent by the US
What is the Nationalist Party?
500
Television, the worsening state of the US economy, and other problems helped to increase this.
What is the credibility gap?
500
In the years just after World War II, how did the United States attempt to prevent the spread of communism in Europe? Name two specific examples.
What is the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine?
500
US soldiers burned villages and killed livestock in this effort to find members of the Vietcong.
What is search-and-destroy missions?
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