Cold War
Superpower of the Communist belief
The Soviet Union/USSR
Containment
Suburban homes that were popular in the 1950s
Levittowns
Chemicals used in the Vietnam War
Failed US attack on Cuba
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Speech given that discusses the permanent divide in Europe between capitalism and communism.
Iron Curtain Speech
Communist leader of North Korea in the 1950s
Kim Il Sung
Allows veterans to finish high school, college, or vocational school for free
GI Bill
Passed by Congress to put troops in Vietnam in response to a boat attack
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Soviet Leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikhita Kruschev
Military alliance between capitalist democracies
NATO
Name of the border between North Korea and South Korea
DMZ (De-Militarized Zone)
Name of the generation of people born during this time
Baby Boomers
Vietnam protest at a college campus where students died from the National Guard
Kent State Massacre
Belief that if one country fell to communism, the bordering countries would also fall to communism
Domino Theory
Policy with the goal of keeping communism contained to the areas that it existed at the end of World War II.
Truman Doctrine (containment)
General of the US forces in the early Korean War
Fear spread throughout the US of communism started by a Senator
McCarthyism
Final Attack on the communists in Vietnam that failed
Tet Offensive
NASA
Blockade implemented by the Soviet Union in Germany that required the US and Britain to fly in supplies to West Berlin for a year.
Berlin Airlift
Line that divided North Korea and South Korea at the end of World War II
38th parallel
Group in Congress that monitored American citizens for communist activities
House Un-American Activities Committee
Name of the Communist Party troops in Vietnam
Viet Cong
Informational video show to children in the 1950s on how to be safe from nuclear attacks.
Duck and Cover