The Cold War Begins
Theory that believed communism thrived where poverty and chaos existed
What is the Truman Doctrine?
President Kennedy won the Presidential election of this year.
What is 1960?
What is the Red Scare?
This was the stated goal of the Vietnam War.
What is containment of communism?
The year that Dr. King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated as well as the Tet Offensive and the olympics in Mexico.
What is 1968?
Created after the US formed an alliance with capitalist nations in Western Europe known as NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
After a lot of debate, this was the strategy that the Kennedy administration used to solve Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is a blockade or quarantine?
Senator who accused hundreds of people of being communist without evidence or corroboration ruining the lives and careers of many before eventually being exposed as a liar.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The path that North Vietnam used to move supplies, weapons, and troops to the Vietncong?
What is the Ho Chi Minh trail?
The chemical dropped on Vietnam to root and destroy Vietcong rebels and their hiding places.
What is Agent Orange?
This quote was given in 1946 "A ________ has descended across the continent".
What is the iron curtain?
The Bay of Pigs of invasion of Cuba was planned by the CIA under this administration.
What is Eisenhower?
Prompted by the growth in the middle class, delayed births during World War II, and economic prosperity in the 1950s.
What is the baby boom?
Congress passed the power to which president that led to Operation Rolling Thunder against North Vietnam
Lyndon B Johnson
Name of the process to leave Vietnam and turn war over to the government of South Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
Two countries of immediate concern for the United States to stop the spread of Communism after WWII using massive economic aid to stabilize their economies.
What is Greece and Turkey?
The Space Race, investment in math and science education, and increased fear were all responses to this event.
What is the launch of Sputnik (and the H-Bomb)?
*Sputnik required
Loans that were secured by the government to encourage home ownership in the suburbs post WWII.
FHA
"You have a row of dominoes set up, knock over the first one, and what happens to last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly". was a quote given by this President about why Americans should care about Vietnam.
Who is Eisenhower?
This was the term given to the relaxing of tension under Nixon for Cold War nuclear conflict following the Vietnam War
What is detente?
Another name for the Soviet sphere of influence they established through the Warsaw Pact and communist alliances.
What are satellite states?
The FIRST name of the Soviet leader who decided to build the Berlin Wall.
*FIRST name because this is a 500 question people
Who is Nikita (Khrushchev)?
investigated Hollywood's possible involvement in spreading communism through the movie industry.
What is HUAC?
Where did the reports of the attacks on the USS Maddox take place on August 4, 1964?
Gulf of Tonkin
Name of the multiple North Viet Cong attacks of 36 of 42 provincial capitals in 1968
What is the Tet Offensive?