Important Figures
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War
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Miscellaneous
100
He took his soviet spy investigation onto television, questioned and challenged officers, and accused them of misconduct and being communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
100
The United States., Canada, and Soviet countries from Western Europe.
What is NATO?
100
The unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.
What is War on Poverty?
100
These documents revealed that many government officials during the Johnson administration privately questioned the war while publicly defending it.
What is the Pentagon Papers?
100
The American birthrate exploded after World War II. More than 65 million children were born in the United States.
What is the baby boom?
200
He knew the cost associated with a large-scale conventional war. Thus, instead of maintaining a large and expensive army, he wanted to be prepared to use atomic weapons.
Who is Eisenhower?
200
Also known as the European Recovery Program, this document was to give European nations American aid to rebuild their economy.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This process involved the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops while South Vietnam assumed more of the fighting.
What is Vietnamization?
200
Public skepticism about the truth of statements, especially official claims and pronouncements. This term was used in association with the Vietnam War describing Lyndon Johnson's handling of the escalation of American involvement in the war.
What is the credibility gap?
200
The practice of pushing dangerous events to the verge disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome.
What is brinkmanship?
300
He was convicted of perjury and sued Chambers for libel. He also served in Roosevelt's administration, attended the Yalta conference, and taken part in organizing the United Nations.
Who is Alger Hiss?
300
A group that screened all federal employees because of The Red Scare and want to seek out communists.
What is the Loyalty Review Program?
300
Used during the Cold War to justify American involvement around the world. It was the belief that if one region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow.
What is the domino theory?
300
The Kennedy had been afraid that the U.S. was beaten by the Soviets when the soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite.
What is the space race?
300
This gave rise to the containment policy. A 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state.
What is Kennan's Long Telegram?
400
He ordered the military to drop the bomb Enola Gay on Hiroshima.
Who is Truman?
400
March 12, 1947, Truman went by Congress to ask for 400 million to fight communism aggression in Greece and Turkey.
What is The Truman Doctrine?
400
This war was a turning point in the Cold War. The U.S. became more involved in Asia. After this war began, the U.S. embarked on a major military buildup.
What is the Korean War?
400
Upon entering office, President Kennedy set out to implement a legislative agenda. He hoped to increase aid to education, provide health insurance to the elderly, create a Department of Urban Affairs, and help migrant workers.
What is the New Frontier?
400
Eisenhower relied on brinkmanship on several occasions, but he knew it could not work in all situations. Thus, to prevent communist uprising in other countries, Eisenhower received helped from the CIA
What are convert operations?
500
He/She was condemned to death for espionage. He/She was also a member of the Communist Party.
Who is Ethel/ Julius Rosenberg?
500
Federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress.
What is the War Powers Act?
500
After the incident between North Vietnam and The United States Congress passed what to give Lyndon B. Johnson the power to assist South Vietnam in the effort to stop communism from spreading.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
500
The law may not treat individuals unfairly, arbitrarily, or unreasonably and that court must follow proper procedures and rules when trying cases.
What is due process?
500
One of the earliest of the new suburbs. Bill Levitt was the driving force behind this planned residential community and he also mass-produced hundreds of simple and similar looking homes in a potato field.
What is Levittown?
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