These "Wild and Free" forces control a capitalistic economy.
What are free market forces?
100
Both the USSR and the USA used this tactic to promote their way of life, or critique the other's.
What is propaganda?
100
The task of weighing or measuring options when making a decision in order to make the best decision.
What is Cost-Benefit Analysis?
100
A United States Naval ship was thought to be shot at off the coast of Vietnam in this body of water.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
100
It was not uncommon for Vietnamese citizens to be trapped in a "living hell of fire" when this United States weapon fell from the sky.
What is Napalm?
200
This institution makes decisions on what to build, how to build it, and how much to sell it for in a communist economy.
What is the State?
200
President Kennedy established a naval blockade around THIS communist country after being informed that the USSR was placing nuclear weapons there.
What is Cuba?
200
The bad things or consequences that one will face as a result of their decision.
What are costs?
200
This guerrilla army used their knowledge of the land to wreak havoc on US soldiers in Vietnam.
What is the Vietcong?
200
When Congress was informed that the United States was attacked off the coast of Vietnam, they signed THIS declaration of war!
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300
Many would say THIS to be the most valued characteristic of a communist economy?
What is equality?
300
Fighting between communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea stopped in 1951, leaving the two countries divided along this tense boarder.
What is the 38th Parallel?
300
The good things or rewards that one may receive as a result of a decision?
What are benefits?
300
Those who believed in THIS theory felt that if Vietnam fell to communism, then all of Asia would fall!
What is the Domino Theory?
300
The Cold War was not exactly a "cold" war. These two wars were in fact very "HOT".
What are the Korean War and the Vietnam War?
400
In a communist country,the lack of competition results in the lack of ______, or the inability to come up with new and improved products.
What is innovation?
400
The United States came to the brink of nuclear war when this US Spy plane was shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is the U2?
400
Grand score for invading Cuba
INVADE CUBA
Costs
Thousands of Casualties -5
Thousands of Dollars -2
Possibly start a world war -5
Benefits
Erase communism next door +3
Remove Nuclear Weapons +5
Free the Cuban people +1
What is -3?
400
Citizens learned of the brutal realities of war, and turn against the war in Vietnam, because of the work of these brave young men and women.
What are wartime journalist?
400
This German city experienced a "split personality" after WWII. It was symbolic of the "War of Ideas" that captured the Cold War period.
What is Berlin, Germany?
500
While Communism and Capitalism are VERY different, they share in THIS desire.
What is to control resources?
or
What is to spread their ideas around the world?
500
The USA avoided nuclear war when they agreed on THIS proposal by the Soviet Union.
What is the removal of nuclear weapons in Turkey for the removal of nuclear weapons in Cuba?
500
The best decision to make.
INVADE CUBA
Costs
Thousands of Casualties -5
Thousands of Dollars -2
Possibly start a war -5
Benefits
Erase communism next door +3
Remove Nuclear Weapons +5
Free the Cuban people +1
BLOCKADE CUBA
Costs
Look weak -1
Possibly start a war -5
Could be attacked first -2
Benefits
Avoid War +6
Remain strong +4
Free the Cuban people +2
What is Blockade Cuba?
500
Famous footage of American State Department workers fleeing on Helicopters summed up the mess that was the Vietnam War in THIS South Vietnamese City.
What is Saigon?
500
"The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. They spread and grow in the evil soil of poverty and strife. They reach their full growth when the hope of a people for a better life has died. We must keep that hope alive. The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms. If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world. And we shall surely endanger the welfare of this nation. Great responsibilities have been placed upon us by the swift movement of events. I am confident that the Congress will face these responsibilities squarely."
In this speech, President Harry Truman was hinting that the United States should support THIS Cold War policy.