The 60s and Vietnam
This event caused the world to see America's involvement in Vietnam and support of Diem as negative
What is "The Buddhist Crisis"
This resource is what caused the Middle East to be so valuable to the Soviet Union and United States during the Cold War
What is "Oil"
This campaign message Ronald Reagan used is very similar to one that is used today.
What is "Let's Make America Great Again"?
This was the man who was the final premier of the Soviet Union
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
What is Containment?
This was the name of the event where an American ship was allegedly fired at, which caused America to escalate its involvement in the Vietnam War
What is the "Gulf of Tonkin Incident"
This term refers to how European powers all divided up the Middle East and drew arbitrary lines in order to control the region and its resources.
What is "Imperialism"?
This was the name of Nancy Reagan's campaign to fight teen and child drug use.
What is "Just Say No"
The Soviets Invaded this country which caused the United States to boycott the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and for them to support the local rebels fighting them.
What is "Afghanistan"
This term refers to the movement where young people began rebelling against traditional American values
What is "Counter Culture"
This was the name of the event where North Vietnamese forces launched an attack across most of South Vietnam which showed Americans back home that the war may be un-winnable
What is "The Tet Offensive"
This event and failure to solve the problem ultimately led to Jimmy Carter losing his election to Ronald Reagan.
What is the "Iranian Hostage Crisis"
By ignoring this crisis Ronald Reagan allowed the disease to continue to spread due to lack of education and the LGBTQ+ community was stigmatized for their relation to it.
What is the "AIDS Crisis"
This event acted as a symbolic "fall of communism" even though the Soviet Union would still exist for 2 more years.
What is "The Fall of the Berlin Wall"?
This term refers to the process where the United States reduced its involvement in Vietnam by training and supplying the South Vietnamese to fight the war on their own
What is "Vietnamization"?
This chemical weapon used in Vietnam led to soldiers developing cancer and for women to give birth to children with major defects
What is "Agent Orange"?
This war led to OPEC starting an Oil Embargo against the United States and caused the Oil Crisis
What is the Yom Kipur War (Or Arab-Israeli war)
Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 of these employees in a move that crushed their Union
What is "Air Traffic Controllers"?
This Soviet Term referred to "Openness" and allowed for more open criticism of the Soviet Union and Communism
What is "Glasnost"
This economic concept refers to when tax breaks are given to wealthy individuals and corporations with the hopes that they will reinvest that money into their business or to hire new workers
What is Trickle Down Economics
This warcrime massacre was covered up by the American military and was only later revealed after a soldier conducted an interview exposing it.
What is "The My Lai Massacre"?
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Name the three arguments against the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine
Palestinians were already living there
The people living there wanted self determination
The neighboring countries were worried about the possible tension a Jewish state would bring.
This was the name of the illegal process where the Ronald Reagan secretly sold guns to an American enemy in order to fund capitalist rebels in Nicaragua.
What was the "Iran Contra Affair"
This Soviet Term referred to "Restructuring" or "Reform" and dealt with how the Soviet Union allowed some limited forms of capitalism.
What is "Perestroika"?
This is the term that refers to the period of lower tension between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
What is "Detente"?