Early Cold War
The T in the Acronym M.A.T.H stands for?
What is Two Ideologies. Communism vs. Capitalism/Democracy
Name the two communist countries supported North Korea in the Korean War?
What are China and USSR (Soviet Union)
Define Containment
What is the policy or process of preventing the expansion of communism
When all of the soldiers came back from WW2 they created a new generation of Americans called..
What is the Baby Boom!
This event escalated the US participation in the Vietnam War
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Post-War Europe was divided into two different alliances. The US was a part of this one.
What is NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
This caused the start of the Korean War
What is when the North launched a surprise invasion of South Korea!
A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
What is the Arms Race
Both Joseph McCarthy and JFK used this new technology to spread their message and reach audiences all across the United States.
What is Television
President Nixon use this slogan to gain American support of withdrawing from the Vietnam War
What is "Peace with Honor!"
This US economic plan helped rebuild most of Western Europe
What is the Marshall Plan
American General MacArthur was fired for this proposed plan to end the Korean War
What is to attack China and possibly start World War 3. President Truman had to step in and negotiate an armistice.
This group investigated radical groups (mostly communists) in the United States and went after the Hollywood Ten,
What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
This program gave veterans opportunities to buy homes and go to college.....
What is the GI Bill
When North Vietnam invaded the south and unified the country under a communistic rule, it was known as....
What is The Fall of Saigon!
This is the alliance of the Soviet Union and satellite nations
What is the Warsaw Pact
This is the reason the US supported South Korea
To prevent the spread of communism (containment)
Political and Economic tension between the USA and USSR is called....
What is the Cold War
A sign of economic prosperity for some Americans in the 1950s was that they moved from the cities to these locations where the houses all looked the same.
What are The Suburbs
LBJ the government were saying things about American advancement in Vietnam that were untrue. "We've never lost a battle in Vietnam". It caused this for the American people.
What is the credibility gap?
The Second Red Scare brought mass hysteria to the United States and was later proven to be much smaller in scale than this U.S. senator would care to admit.
Who was Senator Joseph McCarthy
This is the line that divides North and South Korea
What is the 38th Parallel and the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
This theory stated that if one country in Asia fell to communism, the rest would fall.
What is Domino Theory
The American dream was born in this decade, which was characterized by conformity and affluence (prosperity) for some and injustice and segregation for others.
What is The 1950s
A policy requiring South Vietnamese to take over the fighting while gradually decreasing the number of US soldiers in the war.
What is Vietnamization?