Vocabulary
Places and Events
Documents and Policies
People
Odds and Ends
100
U.S. foreign policy
What is containment and domino theory
100
line which separates Communist Eastern Europe from Capitalist Western Europe
What is the Iron Curtain
100
the three parts of containment
What is the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and NATO (North American Treaty Organization)
100
Nixon's plan to decrease U.S. involvement in Vietnam
What is Vietnamization
100
Sputnik was launched by the Soviets in this year
What is 1957
200
American's who Nixon believed support the war in Vietnam
What is the silent majority
200
how Kennedy responded to Soviet Missiles in Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
200
government organization created to help find communist spies in the United States
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee
200
President who increase U.S. involvement in Vietnam
Who is Lyndon Johnson
200
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon in this year
What is 1969
300
the difference between what the President knows and the American people know
What is the credibility gap
300
U.S. and British planes flew supplies into Western Berlin during a Soviet blockade
What is the Berlin Airlift
300
helped veterans to receive a college education and buy a house
What is the G.I. Bill of Rights/Servicemen's Re-Adjustment Act
300
Congressional Medal of Honor winner from the Vietnam War
Who is Roy Benavidez
300
the Cold War ends in this year
What is 1991
400
this Supreme Court Case allowed students symbolic speech in schools, as long, as it didn't disturb the learning environment or violate the rights of others in the school
What is Tinker v. Des Moines
400
Americans feared the spread of communism in the United States
What is the Red Scare
400
decreased the power of the President to go to war without a declaration of war from Congress
What is the War Powers Act
400
Senator who led the hunt for communist spies in the United States
Who is Joseph McCarthy
400
this amendment create a two term limit for President
What is the 22nd Amendment
500
this phrase symbolizes the difference between the United States (religion) and the Soviet Union (no religion)
What is In God We Trust
500
psychological turning point of the Vietnam war
What is the Tet Offensive
500
increased the Power of the President to send troops to Vietnam without a declaration of war from Congress
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
500
believed in spontaneity and challenging traditional cultural values
Who is the Beat Generation
500
amendment that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
What is the 26th Amendment
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