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100
Line of division in Korea after WWII
What is the 38th parallell?
100
1964 congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit troops to South Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
100
Communist revolutionary who overthrew the Batista regime in Cuba in 1959
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
Organization including the United States and Democratic nations of Western Europe that vowed to aid one another if attacked by a communist nation
What is NATO?
100

Leader of Soviet Union responsible for the installation of creating the "buffer" zone in Eastern Europe and the Berlin Blockade. Died in 1953.

Who is Joseph Stalin?

200
US president that led US into the Korean War
Who is Harry Truman?
200
Jellied gasoline dropped in canisters that exploded and covered large areas.
What is Napalm?
200
1962 conflict between the US and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states
What is the Warsaw Pact?
200

Wisconsin senator who enhanced the Red Scare making unfounded charges against people in the US government and society for being communist

Who is Joseph McCarthy?

300
A defensive alliance formed with the aim of preventing communism from spreading in Southeast Asia
What is SEATO?
300
Herbicide used by US in an effort to destroy brush cover in Vietnam
What is Agent Orange?
300
1961 failed invasion of Cuba by a CIA led force of Cuban exiles
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
300
A time of fear when many Americans believed communist were working to destroy the American way of life
What is Red Scare?
300

WWII general who developed the Inchon Landing plan in Korea and was fired by Truman for insubordination

Who is Douglas MacArthur?

400
Key strategic landing of US troops behind enemy lines in the Korean War
What is the Inchon landing?
400
Communist leader of North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
400
Going to the very edge of war, US practice EX:Cuban missile crisis
What is Brinkmanship?
400
Program in which US and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade
What is the Berlin Airlift?
400

US President/WWII general who authorized the planning of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Finished out the Korean War after Truman left office. His VP would lose to Kennedy in the 1960 election

Who is Dwight Eisenhower?

500
Global body Truman sought authorization from to use military force in Korea
What is the UN?
500
Massive holiday attack launched by NVA and Vietcong troops against the US
What is the Tet Offensive?
500
Soviet Premeir JFK dealt with during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Krushev?
500
Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western Europe after WWII. The policy was motivated to prevent countries from adopting communism
What is the Marshall Plan?
500

Two Jewish Americans who were executed for giving away atomic secrets to the Soviets

Who are the Rosenbergs?