Not So Cold War
The first major Proxy War of the Cold War started on this peninsula, when communists crossed the 38th Parallel
What is Korea?
The Cold War intensified in 1949 when the Soviets tested their first of these destructive devices.
What is a nuclear bomb?
General paranoia over communism, also known as this, characterized American life in the 1950s.
What is the Red Scare?
The fear that Communism would spread across the world like falling dominoes gave rise to this US Cold War Strategy.
"Duck and Cover" reflected a widespread belief that this was an imminent possibility.
What is Nuclear War?
Ho Chi Minh was a World War II hero and communist leader in this country, and enjoyed support from his people--north and south.
Vietnam
When Stalin blockaded US access to West Berlin in the late 1940s, the Americans attempted a daring plan known as this.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This American husband and wife duo aroused a great suspicion when they were tried and convicted of sharing nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union
Who are the Rosenbergs?
This policy, which used American financial power to bolster capitalist economies across Europe was based on the Truman Doctrine
What is the Marshall Plan?
The race between the United States and Soviet Union to reach this place grew out of the nuclear arms race. In July 1969, the United States crossed the finish line.
What is the moon?
This group of communist Guerilla fighters made it difficult for the Americans to achieve their objectives in Vietnam
What is the Viet Cong?
The Cuban Missile Crisis was an example of this type of diplomacy, where nations pursued their objectives by pushing each other to the edge of nuclear war.
What is Brinkmanship
This Wisconsin Senator engaged in demagoguery with his baseless claims that communists had infiltrated the US Government
Who is Joseph McCarthy
This act of Congress, inspired by events in Vietnam, gave Lyndon B. Johnson the power to "Make War" without a congressional war declaration
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This cultural movement featured the rejection of social norms and protest music, and emerged during the 1960s.
What is the Hippie Movement?
This coordinated attack against dozens of South Vietnamese cities is often considered the turning point in the Vietnam War.
This organization of capitalist nations was created to guard against Soviet Aggression, and it's still around today!
What is NATO?
Some historians argue that this 1950s fashion and lifestyle trend, characterized by a desire to fit in, has its roots in the Red Scare.
What is conformity?
This report, which was commissioned and later classified by the Johnson Administration, proved that the Federal Government lied to the American People about progress in Vietnam.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
Perhaps part of the Conformity movement of the 1950s, white middle class Americans flocked to these mass produced neighborhoods in search of affordable home ownership and the "American Dream"
What are the Suburbs?
The fall of this South Vietnamese City in 1975, as Americans hastily evacuated, secured the country under a communist government.
What is Saigon?
This event, which preceded the Cuban Missile Crisis, was an unsuccessful attempt by the US Government to overthrow the communist government of Cuba
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Those accused of communist espionage in the 1950s were at risk of this; which prevented them from getting a job because of their alleged political beliefs
What is Blacklisting?
These five presidents each played a role in America's long war in Vietnam
Who are Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford?
Mr. L's father in law once enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner next to one of these; abbreviated : ICBM.
What is an Intercontinental Ballistics Missile?