Cold War
Difference between US and USSR (why they started the cold war)
democracy vs communism
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period of fear of communism in the US
Red Scare
Name of event where US was angered at finding USSR nukes in Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
President who would've been impeached
Nixon
President who ended hostage issue and put pressure on Soviet Union
Ronald Reagon
Idea to stop the spread of Communism
Truman Doctrine
Event where the US and USSR competed to demonstrate technological superiority
Space Race
Name of event of protestors who rode of buses from the North to the South
Freedom Riders
2 fampus types of weapons used against Vietnam
1) Agent Orange
2) Napalm
What event was the symbolic end to the Cold War
fall of the Berlin Wall
Domino Theory
Little Rock 9 and Arkansas directly challenged this famous court caseq
Brown v. Board
What was one method of protest to the Vietnam war but was federally illegal
Burning draft cards
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Name of event where US embassy was overran and hostages were held for over a year
Iranian Hostage Crisis
2 words that go with Gorbachev
glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring)
Name of both alliances during Cold War
US: NATO
USSR: Warsaw Pact
Explain why the US freaked out over Cuba becoming Communist AND who was Cuba's leader
1) Communism close to USA
2) Castro
Leader of North Vietnam who wanted to combine Vietnam and make it communist
Ho Chi Minh
Name of President attacked by "Killer Rabbit"
Jimmy Carter
What event did China put down college protests in 1989
Tiananmen Square Massacre
What event in 1949 led to the US intervening in Korea and Vietnam
Chinese Revolution
Named after a senator who kept accusing other politicans of being communist
McCarthyism
What event escalated the Vietnam War and what was the homefronts feelings about the War?
2) protests
What event ended detente in 1979
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Explain the importance of Gorbachev's policies on the USSR and the world
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