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Long period of tension and proxy-wars between US and USSR after WWII
Cold War!
Where did Truman send money in Europe to keep them from becoming communist?
Turkey and Greece
What did Rosa Parks do?
Sat in segregated bus area and refused to move; started Montgomery Bus Boycott
What side was the US on in the Vietnam War? The Korean War?
North Vietnam and North Korea
Stopping the spread of communism without attacking the USSR directly
What was the Berlin Airlift?
After the Soviets blockaded West Berlin so no food could go in or out, the US and allies airlifted food in to them
Churchill's phrase to represent the division between western and eastern Europe; an imaginary line
What is iron curtain
What was the court case that ended segregation in schools?
Brown vs Board of Education
idea that if one country falls to communism, then the neighboring countries will fall
What is domino theory
What president did the Southern Strategy of being racist?
Nixon
What was the deal to end the Cuban Missile Crisis, and what president reached it?
US takes missiles out of Turkey and Italy; USSR takes missiles out of Cuba. JFK reached this deal
pact between the democratic countries in the North Atlantic area
What is NATO
What's the tactic of peacefully breaking laws in order to protest them?
Civil disobediance
What was the name of China's communist leader, who successfully led their communist revolution?
Mao Zedong
Policy to support democracies threatened by communism
What is Truman doctrine
Why was the first debate between Nixon and Kennedy in 1960 famous?
First televised debate.
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union created this military alliance with its Eastern European allies.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
What was the overall name for LBJ's signature program, modeled on FDR's New Deal?
This resolution gave President Johnson authority to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Plan to help western europe recover economically and not fall to the communists
What is the Marshall plan
Intimidating the USSR out of action by building up nuclear bombs, getting close to war
What is brinksmanship?
International organization created to help prevent war; not effective as everybody had to agree
What is the United Nation?
What laws did Lyndon B Johnson pass as part of the civil rights movement?
the line that divided North and South Korea
What is the 38th parallel?
SALT II, INF, and START all did what?
Arms reduction; US and USSR agreed to give up some nuclear bombs