Cold War
1950's
1960's
Vietnam
Cold War Presidents
100

The Government owns everything and everything is shared

Communism

100

What country invaded South Korea to start the Korean War.

North Korea

100

The Cuban Missile Crisis started when this country tried to put nukes in Cuba

The Soviet Union

100

This is what allowed Lyndon Johnson to send all the troops he wanted to Vietnam

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

100

This President died on November 11th, 1963

John Kennedy

200

People own things, and get to make their own choices

Capitalism

200

This Senator gained power by accusing people of being communists

Joseph McCarthy

200

The CIA tried to overthrow Cuba by sneaking in an army at this location

Bay of Pigs

200

This suprise attack convinced many people that the war was nowhere close to over 

Tet Offensive

200

His doctrine stated that we would fight communism wherever it tried to spread

Harry Truman

300

This group was formed by America and its allies to fight the spread of communism

NATO

300

After a civil war interrupted by WWII, Communist Mao Zedong took over this country.

China

300

In 1969, he became the first man on the moon

Neil Armstrong

300

Buddhist monks protested against the South Vietnamese government by doing what?

Self immolation

300

He had the plan to just abandon South Vietnam

Richard Nixon

400

The Soviet Union formed this group to help spread communism

the Warsaw Pact

400

This husband and wife were executed for giving the Soviets the plans for an Atomic Bomb

The Rosenbergs

400

Nuclear missiles would be removed from Cuba if we pulled our missiles from what country?

Turkey

400

He was the leader of communist North Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh

400

He refused to send in the American marines during the Bay of Pigs crisis.

John F. Kennedy

500

This country is the first place we successfully stopped the spread of communism

Greece

500

This General was fired during the Korean war for proposing we use nukes on China

Douglas MacArthur

500

In 1961, he became the first man in space

Yuri Gagarin

500

Vietnam was trying to gain their freedom from this country before we stepped in. 

France

500

He is credited with coming up with the spending plan that sank the Soviet Union

Ronald Reagan

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