Red Scare
This senator led a campaign to root out alleged communists in the U.S. government
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The Korean War began this year when North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea.
What is 1950?
This resolution passed by Congress in 1964 gave President Johnson broad military powers in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This policy, announced by President Truman in 1947, pledged U.S. support for countries resisting communist influence.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries resisting Soviet influence.
What is Containment?
Joseph McCarthy famously claimed that he had a list of communists working in this government department.
What is the State of Department?
This general was the commander of UN forces during the early part of the Korean War.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on 36 provincial capitals and 5 major cities in South Vietnam in 1968
What is the Tet Offensive?
he plan named after this Secretary of State provided extensive financial aid to help rebuild Western European economies after World War II
What is the Marshall Plan?
The doctrine articulated the containment policy and offered support to Greece and Turkey in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This group of Hollywood professionals were blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Who are the Hollywood Ten?
In what year was a cease-fire signed to stop the Korean War?
What is 1953?
The U.S. military used this chemical defoliant to clear forests and crops during the Vietnam War
What is Agent Orange?
This doctrine, announced by President Eisenhower in 1957, pledged U.S. economic and military assistance to any Middle Eastern countries that are being threatened by Communist.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
This plan provided over $12 billion to help rebuild Western European economies after World War II to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall plan?
This term describes the widespread fear of communism that led to accusations and investigations in the United States during 1950s
What is the Red Scare?
This country entered the Korean War on the side of North Korea in late 1950.
What is China?
This agreement, signed in 1973, intended to end the Vietnam War and restore peace in Vietnam.
What are the Paris Peace Accords?
This Cold War policy, initiated by President Nixon, aimed at easing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union through diplomacy and arms control.
What is détente?
The U.S. entered this war in Asia as part of its containment policy to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Korean War?
This 1951 espionage case involved a married couple wo were convicted and executed for allegedly passing top secret information to the Sovient union.
Wat is the Rosenberg Trials?
What alliance was set to prevent Communism.
What is SEATO Alliance?
The 1975 event, caused the fall of this city, leading to the unification of Vietnam under communist control.
What is the Fall of Saigon?
his strategy, used by the United States during the Cold War, aimed to prevent the spread of communism by supporting non-communist regimes with economic and military aid
What is the policy of containment?
This alliance was made in 1949 between 12 Western European countries and North American nations to counteract the USSR
What is NATO?