Containment
Keeping communism within its present borders through use of diplomatic, economic and military actions
What is containment?
A nickname for the Korean War.
What is the Forgotten War?
The communist leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The relaxation of tensions between the USSR and the US in the 1970s.
What is detente?
The idea of safety in numbers, particularly important in the early years of the Cold War.
What is collective security?
Program to fight communist aggression in Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine
The Korean War is considered a United Nations _______________.
What is police action?
The president that escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnsom?
Nixon's visit with this country led to more diplomatic relations with a communist country.
What is China?
The United States collective security group, made up of democratic allies.
The theory that if one Asian country fell to communism it would start a chain reaction and others would follow.
What is domino theory?
North and South Korea signed an _________ instead of a treaty
What is an armistice?
This incident led to the U.S. Congress handing over their war declaration powers to the President.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
This sport created diplomatic relations between the United States and China.
What is ping pong/table tennis?
The creation of NASA, and increased education funding came from this Soviet launch of ______________.
What is Sputnik?
Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The area between the present border of North and South Korea.
What is the DeMilitarized Zone (DMZ)?
The process by which Nixon wanted to decrease U.S. presence in Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
This president rejected detente and preferred increased military spending to thwart communism.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This event was the closest the U.S. and USSR came to beginning a nuclear or "hot" war.
An example of the failed strategy of containment.
- What is the loss of South Vietnam?
OR
- What is the fall of China?
The Korean War general who was fired for wanting to use nuclear weapons in North Korea.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
The turning point for American public opinion on the Vietnam War.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This agreement between the US and Soviet Union signaled the beginning of detente.
What are the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)?
U.S. response to the blockade of Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?