The Cold War Begins
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?
The year that Dr. King and Robrt Kennedy were assassinated as well as the Tet Offensive.
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 is the strategy that the Kennedy administration went with in the 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?
After the battle of Dien Bien Phi in 1954, this nation decided to remove their troops from Vietnam
What is France?
Name of the process to leave Vietnam and turn war over to the government of South Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
North Korea's biggest ally in the Korean War.
What is China?
The Space Race, investment in math and science education, and increased fear were all responses to this event.
*Sputnik required
The GI Bill provided education opportunities and _______________ to veterans returning home from World War II.
What is low-interest home loans (mortgages)?
"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?
Law that reduced power of President to send troops into conflict.
What is the War Powers Act?
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)?
_______, loyalty review boards, McCarthyism were all consequences of the Cold War Red Scare.
What is HUAC?
The date of the controversial decisions that made in the Gulfof Tonkin that started the Vietnam War?
What is August 4th?
At the Paris Peace Accords the US met with the Vietnamese government from this city.
What is Hanoi?