Early Cold War
Name the 1947 U.S. policy announced to stop the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries resisting Soviet influence
Truman Doctrine
What two nations were the main rivals in the Cold War?
United States and Soviet Union
Name the congressional committee that investigated alleged communist influence in the U.S.
House Un-American Activities Committee, HUAC
Who won the 1960 Presidential election
John F Kennedy
The widespread use of this technology brought the Vietnam War to the American people
Television
What international organization was created between the US and its Western European allies on the basis of collective defense?
NATO
Definition: competition to develop superior weapons
Arms Race
The U.S. led this international peace keeping organization in reaction to the invasion of South Korea by North Korea
United Nations
1961 operation was a failed attempt by CIA-trained Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
The policy of withdrawing U.S. troops and transferring responsibility to South Vietnam was called
Vietnamization
What was a common civil defense practice taught to American schoolchildren in the 1950s?
Duck and Cover
The first man made satellite, developed by the Soviet Union
Sputnik
Definition: campaign of intense anti-communist suspicion in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s, characterized by reckless, unsubstantiated accusations of disloyalty and subversion
McCarthyism
Built in 1961, this served as a physical representation of the Iron Curtain
The Berlin Wall
The term for public distrust of official government statements about the war
Credibility Gap
Identify the 1948–49 event in which the U.S. and its allies provided supplies to a blockaded European city?
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union’s response to the creation of NATO
Warsaw Pact
Couple that were convicted and executed for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
This 13-day confrontation in October 1962 is widely considered the moment the Cold War came closest to escalating into a full-scale nuclear exchange
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The 1968 surprise offensive by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, named for a specific Vietnamese holiday
Tet Offensive
What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan, and how did it aim to strengthen U.S. objectives in Europe?
Rebuild Western European cities and economies, create stable markets for US trade
The U.S. policy of "massive retaliation”
threatening large-scale nuclear response to Soviet aggression
The theory that if one nation fell to communism, many more would as well in a chain reaction
Domino Theory
This movement consisted of various art forms as a rejection of mainstream society
Counterculture movement
1964 congressional resolution gave President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited power to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war National Archives
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution