Cold War
North Korea received war supplies and money from these Communist allies (Name both)
Who is China/U.S.S.R.
This president was the Cold Warrior, who led the US in the 80s and initiated a program nicknamed "Star Wars"
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Ho Chi Minh was the leader of _________ Vietnam
What is North?
Fear that a Communist Vietnam would lead to other Southeast Asian Communist governments
Domino Theory
He became the leader of Cuba after a military coup
Who is Fidel Castro?
President who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, complicating the progress made between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
Who is J.F.K.?
What is escalated the war
Often called the 'Living Room War', U.S. Citizens became more aware of the events in Vietnam because of the rise in availability in an item common household everywhere today.
What is Television?
George Marshall, creator of the Marshall Plan, believed that the U.S. should give economic assistance to help rebuild Europe after W.W.II., which doubled as a plan to stop the spread of Communism - adding to the U.S. policy known as this?
What is containment?
What is Watergate?
The United States secretly began bombing campaigns in these countries?
Cambodia and Laos
Characterized as irregular fighting, using sneak attacks, ambushes, and hard to identify combatants
What is Guerilla Warfare?
A tense standoff between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., after it was found out that the Soviets had placed Nuclear missiles only 90 miles from the U.S.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The nuclear reduction treaty that is also the name of something you have with dinner
Newspaper expose' that showed the American public how the war was actually expanding although they were told differently
What are the Pentagon Papers
Secret network that helped smuggle arms/supplies from the North to the South to aide the Viet Cong fighting the U.S.
What is the Ho Chi Minh trail
This treaty said that the US and USSR would not fire nukes in space or in the water
What is the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
The Capital city of South Vietnam was renamed this after the Communists took over in 1973 and is today the capital of the whole country
What is Ho Chi Minh?
Massacre of South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops
My Lai Massacre
After an 'attack' on a U.S. ship, the U.S.S. Maddox, Congress essentially gave President Johnson (LBJ) unlimited war powers in a bill known as this. . .
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution