US (Policies, People, and Events!)
US-Soviet Union Turmoil!
Cuba && Korean War!
Vocabulary!
Vietnam War!
100
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
100
A wall dividing Berlin
the Berlin Wall
100
Bahia de Cochinos
Bay of Pigs.
100
intercontinental ballistic missile
ICBM
100
to halt the spread of communism
the main goal of the United States in Vietnam
200
The United States supplied economic aid to Euopean nations to help them rebuild after WWII
The Marshall Plan
200
The first satilite the Soviets lanched.
Sputnik
200
chinese communist leader
Mao Zedong.
200
House Committee on Un-American Activites
HUAC
200
hawks/doves
the American nicknames for the people against the war.
300
Brinkmanship
the practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retailiation for any aggression
300
The downing of a US spy plane and capture of it's pilot by the Soviet Union. (1960)
the U2-Incident.
300
where the imaginary line bisects Korea
the 38th parallel
300
My Lai
This is the massacre of when the U.S. platoon soldiers murdered 100 innocnet Vietnamese people
300
France attempted to reestablish its rule in Vietnam after WWII
the French involvement in Vietnam
400
The Ban of testing nuclear weapons above ground in the Soviet Union and the United States.
The Limited Test Ban Treaty.
400
Who created the Berlin wall and why?
The East Germany communist government. To prevent it's citizens from fleeing West.
400
when soviets were secretly building missile bases in cuba, these missiles could reach the U.S. in minutes
the Cuban Missile Crisis
400
a public distrust of statements made by the government
credibility gap
400
What happened when the U.S. left Vietnam
THe Vietnam war remained a subject of great controversy, many Americans questioned US inform policy
500
The Truman doctrine did....
the president declared that the providing of economic aid and military aid to free nations threatend by internal/external opponets.
500
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslavakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland.
Satilite nations.
500
the key players in the Bay of Pigs
Kennedy, the C.I.A., and Cuba
500
Ho Chi Minh trail
a network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to Vietcong
500
58,000 killed; 365,000 wounded
the number of American fatalities in Vietnam
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