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Vietnam
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US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis...
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
An economic aid package, that spend $13 billion to keep Western Europe from Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
Supreme court case that established "separate but equal" doctrine...
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)?
100
The US government encouraged Americans to build these during the early days of the Cold War, in response to the nuclear threat..
What are bomb shelters?
100
Foreign policy developed by the US to explain and justify military involvement in Southeast Asia in the face of expanding communism..
What is domino theory?
200
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized which U.S. President the authority to widen the war?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
The doctrine that used the policy of containment.
What is Truman Doctrine?
200
These laws made it legal to have segregation in public places.
What were Jim Crow laws?
200
A badly planned invasion involving exiles that embarrassed the U.S..
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
200
North and South Vietnam were divided by this political geographic feature after the Geneva Accords...
What is the 17th Parallel?
300
Catholic leader of South Vietnam in early days of the war; his mistreatment of Buddhists finally made America question him..
Who is Ngo Ding Diem?
300
This division of Europe was described by Winston Churchill, as it descended on Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
Method of protest in which college students protested segregation at lunch counters by sitting at 'whites only' counters and refusing to leave.
What are sit-ins?
300
Leader of Cuban who courted Soviet influence in the Carribbean..
Who is Fidel Castro?
300
The term for all the countries around Vietnam controlled by the French for over 100 years
What is French Indochina?
400
Communist leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis...
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
400
Country that was divided among four nations after WWII.
What is Germany?
400
Landmark US Supreme Court case that made "separate but equal" unconstitutional, paved the way for desegregation..
What is Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)?
400
This alliance was created in 1949 in an effort to contain the threat of aggression in Eastern Europe:
What is NATO?
400
The group of Vietnam fighters who American was frustrated with; supported Ho Chi Minh
What is the Vietcong?
500
Prominent figure of the civil rights movement, assassinated April 4, 1968
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
500
The Big Three leaders at Yalta.
Who are Truman, Churchill, and Stalin?
500
Federal troops were sent to protect this group of students.
What were the Little Rock Nine?
500
This popular US company was directly tied to Cold War CIA operations in Central America:
What is the United Fruit Company?
500
Besides guerilla warfare, this great strategy was hard for the U.S. to stop even though we knew it existed
What was transporting food and supplies along the Ho Chi Minh Trail?