ordered use of atomic weapons on these Japanese cities, ending WW2
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
100
Eisenhower was in charge of planning the Allied invasion of Western Europe on June 6, 1944.
What is D-Day?
100
Kennedy defeated this Republican candidate in 1960, becoming the youngest person to be elected U.S. President
Who is Richard Nixon?
100
became most important voice demanding Indochina's independence from France
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
100
served as Vice President to this previous Cold War U.S. President
Who is Eisenhower?
200
promise to aid nations struggling against communist movements, setting a new course for U.S. foreign policy
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
possible response to communist threats by threatening to use crushing, overwhelming force, perhaps even nuclear weapons
What is massive retaliation?
200
failed invasion of Cuba led by CIA and Cuban-exiles
What is Bay of Pigs?
200
idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, closest neighbors (Cambodia and Laos) would follow
What is the domino theory?
200
strategy in which U.S. forces would withdraw as S. Vietnamese troops assumed more combat responsibilites
What is Vietnamization?
300
$13 billion program to aid nations in Western Europe rebuilding following WW2
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
international crisis in which Eisenhower refused to back British and French efforts to regain territory in Middle East
What is the Suez Canal Crisis?
300
became a visible symbol of the reality of two Germanys and the gulf between communist East and democratic West.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
allowed Johnson to commit troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam without having to ask Congress for declaration of war
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300
Supreme Court rules against Nixon's efforts to have Pentagon Papers blocked from publication (Nixon lost)
What is New York Times vs. United States?
400
Truman's policy for fighting the Korean War; seeking to achieve only specific goals, rather than a total victory
What is limited war?
400
Eisenhower approved covert operations in Iran and Guatamala by this organization in order to protect American interests
What is the CIA?
400
to avert war in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy indicated that he would remove U.S. missiles from these two countries if Soviets would remove missiles from Cuba
What are Italy and Turkey?
400
General Westmoreland advised Johnson to begin carpet bombing campaign and increase of U.S. troops in Vietnam under this nickname
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
400
congressional attempt to check unilateral formation of American foreign policy and stop growth of "imperial presidency"
What is the War Powers Act?
500
fired this leader of UN and American forces during the Korean War for insubordination
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
500
Eisenhower approves the passage of this $1 billion program, created in response to the Soviet's launching of Sputnik
What is the National Defense Education Act?
500
In 1963, the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union signed this...the first weapons agreement which ended above ground nuclear missile "experiments"
What is the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
500
North Vietname assault on U.S. embassy in Saigon demonstrated that communists had no lost will or ability to fight on
What is the Tet Offensive?
500
religious denomination of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon
(hint: Society of Friends, Underground RxR, and Guilford College)