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EARLY COLD WAR
EARLY COLD WAR
BETWEEN KOREA & VIETNAM
VIETNAM
VIETNAM
100
Stalin's response to NATO
What is Warsaw Pact
100
Eisenhower inherited from the Truman administration a military budget of roughly US$42 billion, as well as this paper calling for an additional $7–9 billion in military spending
What is NSC-141
100
Ike's policy. This tactic was supposed to isolate Soviet Russia so that communism could not spread and would collapse in on itself. To enforce this tactic they set up many alliances with countries that would have been considered to be within the soviet sphere of influence. As it was now known that the Soviets possessed nuclear weapons which stood the US and the Russians on more of an even playing field. To combat this problem, Eisenhower threatened to use all of his arsenal if the Soviets took offensive measures.
What is New Look
100
1964...gave LBJ the power to wage war without a declaration of war. Escalates the war.
What is Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
100
during the lunar New Year, North Vietnamese troops take the offensive by crossing the 17th parallel. Broadcast on tv at home. "We won the battle but lost the war." Turned American public opinion against Vietnam war.
What is Tet Offensive
200
West German policy toward the U.S.S.R & E. Germany. Meant to ease tensions between east and west to encourage cross border commerce
What is Ostopolitik
200
They were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted after refusing to answer HUAC questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party:
What is Hollywood 10
200
issued during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. It was one of the most significant statements of American policy in the Cold War. Largely shaped U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War for the next 20 years, and involved a decision to increase the pressure of Containment against global Communist expansion a high priority.
What is NSC 68
200
reversed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. No president will ever get that kind of power again. 1973
What is War Powers Act
200
Lt. Calley massacres women and children at this hamlet, thinking they were Viet Cong by night.
What is My Lai Massacre
300
1948 defense clause for a Western European Union (WEU), provided collective security between Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and UK
What is Brussels Pact
300
accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
What is Alger Hiss
300
a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union. Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, then the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to halt the reforms.
What is Prague Spring
300
lowered the voting age as a result of the Vietnam War.
What is 26th amendment
300
Capital of N. Vietnam
What is Hanoi
400
an agreement signed in 1947 in Rio de Janeiro among many countries of the Americas. The central principle contained in its articles is that an attack against one is to be considered an attack against them all; this was known as the "hemispheric defense" doctrine.
What is Rio Treaty
400
. It contained four notes in Alger Hiss's handwriting, sixty-five typewritten copies of State Department documents and five strips of microfilm, some of which contained photographs of State Department documents.
What is Pumpkin Papers
400
Following an extended period of social and political unrest between the conservative-dominated Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon, Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police. Part of Cold War politics in latin America
What is Chilean coup d'etat
400
4 dead in Ohio
What is Kent State Riots
400
was a United States Army four-star general. He was in command of all US military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968, including during the 1968 Tet Offensive.
What is General Westmoreland
500
an inter-continental organization founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, the members are the 35 independent states of the Americas.
What is Organization of American States (OAS)
500
if one country falls to Communism, they all will
What is domino effect
500
initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961 aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America.
What is Alliance for Progress
500
French defeat in 1954 against the Viet Minh 1954
What is Dien Bien Phu
500
In his effort to get out of Vietnam ("peace with honor")Nixon decides to gradually pull out U.S. troops and train the S. Vietnamese army to defend themselves.
What is Vietnamization