War Opposition & Support
This strategy followed by America throughout the Cold War was summarized by keeping Communism in the parts of the world that it was already in and preventing its spread.
What was containment?
This country occupied Korea before WWII.
What is Japan?
This city is the capital of South Vietnam and played a major role in the war.
What was Saigon?
Johnson was first officially elected to office in this year, despite having already served as President.
What is 1964?
This was America's foreign policy on communism - trying to keep it in the places it was and preventing it from spreading.
What is containment?
This prominent Civil Rights Leader went public with his opposition to the war in 1967.
Who was MLK?
This country was who the USA was trying to support.
What was South Korea?
This city is the capital of North Vietnam and played a major role in the war.
What is Hanoi?
The first part of the Economic Opportunity Act provided job training to everyday Americans known as this.
What is the job corps?
Between 1946 to 1964, almost 77 million babies are born in the United States in this phenomenon.
What is the baby boom?
This member of the Beatles wrote the song "Imagine" which was a song of peace and unity to help oppose the war in Vietnam.
Who was John Lennon?
This battle in 1951 was a major turning point of the war.
What was the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge?
The USA begun attacks on Vietnam in this year
What is 1965?
Johnson helped to establish these two health insurance programs which provided help for the elderly and for people with limited income.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
This measure of the amount of money you need to sustain a certain lifestyle in a given place was high in the 50's, making it an important election issue.
What is cost of living?
This concept stated that if a political event happens in one country, it will become a domino and lead to other countries having similar events. The US used this to defend entering the Vietnam War because it claimed if communism wasn't stopped abroad it would spread to the US and other countries, so they wanted to contain communism.
What was the domino theory?
Japan had fought in this war to acquire the Korean Peninsula that the U.S. and Soviet Union would later occupy.
What is the Sino-Japanese war?
This man was President of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
This act disallowed techniques used to prevent voting access such as poll taxes and literacy tests.
DAILY DOUBLE
What was the Voting Rights Act of 1955?
The National Interstate and Defense Highways Act in this year helped build infrastructure such as highways throughout the country.
What is 1956?
Opponents of the war believed that war supporters were supporting the unjust war in order to enlarge the profits of the companies including this one. This company had a monopoly in America on the chemical napalm, which was used in Vietnam to engulf stretches of land.
What was Dow Chemical?
This branch of American government never actually declared war in Korea.
What is Congress?
This long black wall in DC has soldiers who fought and died in the war's names on it.
What is the Vietnam War Memorial?
This measure of the percentage of Americans in financial distress had dropped to 13% by the end of LBJ's presidency.
What is the poverty rate?
This military alliance helped to protect Western Europe from Soviet expansion. It concluded much of Europe as well as America and was one of the most successful military alliances in history.
What is NATO?