Cold War
What two nations was the Cold War between? (must name both)
U.S. and Soviet Union
What is the policy of containment?
Stopping the spread of communism
What was the typical role of women in the 1950s?
Stay at home mom, wife, traditional values
The piece of legislation that allowed U.S. troops to fight in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war was...
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
What new peacekeeping organization was created after WW2?
United Nations
The US plan to aid the economic recovery of Europe after World War II was called the...
Marshall Plan
Agreement to stop fighting
After WWII, there was a surge in the amount of children that were born between 1946-64. What was this called?
Baby Boom (okay Boomer)
Which president was responsible for the escalation of U.S. combat troops in Vietnam?
Lyndon B. Johnson
What happened on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas?
JFK was assassinated
Explain the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction.
Nuclear war is not a good option because it would lead to total destruction of both sides
A person in favor of the United States withdrawing from the Vietnam War was called a ...
Dove
Who is Joe McCarthy and what did he do?
Senator from Wisconsin who accused government officials of being communists with no proof
What was the name of the guerilla Communist forces the U.S. was fighting in Vietnam?
Vietcong
Organization made up of 12 nations agreeing to protect each other against a Communist attack
NATO
Physical divide between the democratic/free West Germany and Communist East Germany (came down in 1989)
Berlin Wall
What is the the domino theory?
If one country falls to communism, all the other countries around it will fall too.
Young, college-aged students who embraced protest, experimented with psychedelic drugs, and rejected traditional values. What was this movement called?
Counterculture
How did television affect the American public’s opinion about fighting in Vietnam?
Showed the violence of the war and the fact that the U.S. was not winning
List TWO things that Communism offers/provides to its citizens (name two to get the point)
Options:
Housing, Job, Equality, Healthcare
After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the United States increased its focus on math, science, and technology to keep up in the race for scientific dominance. These efforts were part of what Cold War-era competition between the U.S. and the USSR?
Space Race
The gradual removal of US troops to give South Vietnam a more active combat role is called…
Vietnamization
Dividing line that separated North and South Korea after WW2
38th Parallel
What was the result of the Vietnam War?
Ceasefire at first, then North Vietnam attacked S. Vietnam, took it over, and united it as one country under communist rule
What is the name of the event that occurred in 1962 while Kennedy was president that almost led the US into a nuclear war with the Soviet Union?
Cuban Missile Crisis