Vietnam War
This country colonized Vietnam PRE World War 2
What is France
The line that divides North and South Korea
What is the 38th parallel
A list of people who were denied employment due to their political beliefs or associations during the Red Scare and Cold War.
What is Blacklisting
Name the "Big Five" of the United Nations
What are China, France, Soviet Union, United States, and Great Britain
The "King of Rock"
Who is Elvis Presley?
North Vietnamese sent two torpedos hitting the U.S.S Maddox, making the United States officially involved.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident(1964)
The buffer zone between North and South Korea that is still here today
What is the DMZ ( Demilitarized Zone)
The democratic party split into these three groups in 1948
Who are the Dixiecrats, The Progressives, and Truman supporters
The United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from Communism
What is the Truman Doctrine
FDR's bill provided World War II veterans with funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing.
What is the G.I. Bill of 1944
A military strategy where a smaller force uses irregular tactics like ambushes, hit- and- runs, booby traps, land mines, and networks of tunnels
What is Guerilla Warfare
Who is General MacArthur
Who are the Rosenbergs
The pact made between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries that was made to counter NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact (1955)
The term referring to white Americans fleeing from major urban cities, turning towards the suburbs.
What is the "White Flight"
The difference between was is being told to us by the government versus what is ACTUALLY taking place
What is the credibility gap
A military strategy where one side attempts to wear down the other side by causing them to lose soldiers and equipment until they collapse
What is "War of Attritition"
These drills were intended to teach children how to protect themselves if the Soviet Union, the United States' Cold War rival, dropped a nuclear bomb near a school.
What is Duck and Cover
The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth successfully
What is Sputnik (1957)
The name of the high school that the "Little Rock Nine" attended
What is Central High School
a policy implemented by President Richard Nixon to gradually reduce the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam and transfer combat responsibility to South Vietnamese forces
What is Vietnamization
This communist country, besides the Soviet Union, provided weapons and logistical support to North Korea during the Korean War.
What is China
This president won the popular vote and electoral vote of 1952 and 1956
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike)
The peaceful meeting that was supposed to take place between Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Camp David
What is the Paris Summit Conference (1960)
He began dropping candy and gum from the sky using handkerchief parachutes during the Berlin Airlfit
Who is The Candy Bomber/ Uncle Wiggly Wings