Containment
The Asian country that best exemplified the successful use of containment by the US.
Korea
What did the Tet offensive prove to Americans back home?
The government was lying about the status of the war.
The leader of the Cuban Revolution who took power in 1959 and turned Cuba into a communist nation.
Fidel Castro
Which president issued an executive order integrating the armed forces?
Harry S. Truman
The ideology that originally outlined the US’s new policy of containing the spread of communism throughout Europe and the rest of the world in the late 1940s.
The Truman Doctrine
What technology had the power to shift public opinion of the war in Vietnam during the late 1960s and early 70s?
Television
Incident in which US-backed Cuban rebels attempted to overthrow the Castro regime but failed miserably.
The Bay of Pigs invasion
Congress passed this after WWII to help veterans get on their feet by offering reduced home and business loans and grants for college.
The G.I. Bill
President Eisenhower believed if one country fell to communism, then the surrounding countries would fall also. What do we call this theory?
Domino Theory
Which president is largely responsible for escalting our involvement in Vietnam?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Which U.S. president is responsible for negotiating the conclusion of the Cuban missile crisis?
JFK
Originally designed as a tool of the U.S. military, this bill helped connect the nation and encouraged the growth of suburbs.
Interstate highways
Similar to the Truman Doctrine, this plan included fighting the spread of communism, but through aiding western Europe to build support for capitalism and democracy.
The Marshall Plan
What was created to give Congress more power over controlling the U.S. military and deploying them for war?
The War Powers Act
What were the Soviets using Cuba for in 1962?
Nuclear missile launchpads
Described as a series of baseless accusations, this style of politics ruined American politics and lives in the 50's.
McCarthyism
These two countries are examples in which US containment of communism failed.
Cuba
Vietnam
The document signed by Congress giving President Johnson unlimited authority to escalate the conflict in Vietnam.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
As part of the agreement with the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US agreed to do these two things. (Need both)
Remove missiles from Turkey
End the blockade on Cuba
List 3 of the 5 things that the launch of Sputnik I caused:
Increased funding to math and science education
Creation of NASA
"Missile Gap" theory
New Technology (Internet)
"Domino theory"