Global Cooling
WWII ended in victory for these TWO global superpowers
What are the USA and USSR?
The "playing field" of the Cold War changed when the Soviets successfully tested this in 1949
What is the nuclear bomb?
He was the communist leader of North Vietnam, and a champion of Vietnamese independence during WWII.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Many Vietnam War protests centered around this unpopular US policy, which was necessitated by troop escalation.
What is the draft?
This was a book we read this semester.
What is the Things They Carried or What is The Great Gatsby
American Cold War strategy was based on this belief, the idea that communism was most likely to spread to nations nearby other communist nations.
What is domino theory?
This famous husband and wife duo was executed for treason after passing nuclear secrets to the Russians in the 1950s.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
What are military advisors?
Protests intensified in 1971, after the leak of this document demonstrated that the government had lied about the US Army's progress in Vietnam.
What is the Pentagon Papers?
The Crucible, set in colonial Massachusetts, was inspired by this 1950s development in America.
What is the Red Scare?
After testing the Truman Doctrine in Turkey and Greece, the United States spent billions of dollars rebuilding Western Europe as a part of this program.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The development of this weapons technology (ICBM for short) allowed nuclear powers to threaten one another from hundreds--or even thousands--of miles away.
What is Intercontinental Ballistics Missile?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Demonstrations at this Ohio University turned deadly in 1971, when the National Guard was mobilized to quell student protests.
What is Kent State?
Gender roles of the 1950s regressed from the age of Gatsby, thanks in part to the post-war economic boom and this demographic trend.
What is the baby boom?
In 1946, Winston Churchill coined the term Iron Curtain, which he used to describe this bloc of Eastern European puppet nations of the Soviet Union.
What are the Satellite States?
The Cuban Missile Crisis exemplified this foreign policy strategy, which employed the threat of nuclear war to achieve policy goals.
What is Brinkmanship?
Troop escalation in Vietnam failed in part because of this guerilla group of South Vietnamese communists.
What is the Viet Cong?
The turning point in public opinion on the Vietnam War came in 1968, after this coordinated surprise attack on US positions in South Vietnam.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This 1950s conflict, which preceded the Vietnam War, demonstrated the viability of containment as a Cold War strategy.
What is the Korean War?
The first major confrontation of the Cold War took place here, where a massive aerial re-supply effort was made necessary by the blockade of roads into the city.
What is Berlin?
This cartoon animal was the government's official spokesperson for "Duck and Cover" nuclear preparedness.
Who is Bert the Turtle?
President Nixon promised a "peace with honor" through troop reduction and financial support; a plan known as this.
What is Vietnamization?
This sociological term, which describes a group's rejection of social norms and beliefs, was best exemplified by the hippie movement of the 1960s.
What is a counterculture?
This "Okie from Muskogee" exemplified the "Silent Majority" -- the rejection of hippie and protest culture in America during the 1960s
Who is Merle Haggard?