POLITICS
This organization was formed in 1938 to investigate institutions & individuals suspected of endangering the United States?
House of un-American Activities Committee
"Duck & Cover" drills became a regular part of life for American school children during the Cold War to help prepare them for this
Nuclear attack (bomb)
The event that occurred in 1949 and significantly heightened Cold War tensions?
USSR developed hydrogen bomb
The name of the supply route used by North Vietnamese forces?
Ho Chi Minh Trail
He led the Communist North Vietnamese government during the Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh
The final outcome of the Vietnam War?
Vietnam became unified under Communist rule
This actor turned US President's feelings about Communism were described as staunchly anti-communist
Ronald Reagan
The strategy Nixon used to prepare South Vietnamese to fight for themselves so he could pull out American troops.
Vietnamization
The period of intense anti-communist suspicion and persecution in the United States
McCarthyism
The theory that nuclear weapons serve to deter war because if used, everyone dies
Mutually Assured Destruction
This was North Korea's main objective in invading South Korea?
unifying the entire Korean peninsula under a communist government
The military alliance that included countries like Albania, Bulgaria & Czechoslovakia
Warsaw Pact
Two factors that contributed to the Soviet Union's decline in the 1980s?
Stagnation & Food Shortages
Why the Korean War is often referred to as the "Forgotten War"
It was overshadowed by WWII & Vietnam
The organization that was created in 1949 as a military alliance against Soviet threats around the world
NATO
Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost & Perestroika were intended to do THIS in the Soviet Union?
Make reforms to keep the Soviet people happier
The theory President Eisenhower proposed in 1954 about communism in Southeast Asia?
Domino Theory
The reason the Soviet Union help East Germany build the Berlin Wall?
To keep East Germans under communist rule
The chemical (used to kill plants) that was widely used in Vietnamese jungles and contributed to significant health problems in Vietnam veterans
Agent Orange
Communist Guerilla fighters in South Vietnam
VietCong
The two reasons Stalin felt the USSR should have benefitted more than the U.S. after the Allied victory in WWII.
This event, in 1964, resulted in a resolution that gave the U.S. President more power & significantly increased the U.S.'s involvement in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin
Anti-communist fervor and nuclear anxiety impacted the espionage trial of this couple
Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
How Marxist Communism differed from Communism put into practice in the Soviet Union by the Bolsheviks
All control was taken by the government instead of given to the people
In this surprise attack, North Vietnamese troops & Viet Cong fighters struck more than 100 towns & cities, including the capital of Saigon
Tet Offensive