A time of fear when many Americans believed communist were working inside the US to destroy the nation
What is the Red Scare?
100
Te belief that if one nation fell under communist control its neighbors would as well
What is the Domino Theory?
100
Line of latitude which Korea was divided after WWII
What is the 38th parallel?
100
Revolutionary who took over Cuba in 1959
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
Jellied Gasoline dropped in canisters that exploded and covered large areas
What is Napalm?
200
Wisconsin Senator who falsely accused many Americans and ruined there carrerrs (McCarthyism)
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
200
Military alliance between the Soviet Union and its allies/Satellite states
What is the Warsaw Pact?
200
Nation that joined North Korea against US forces
What is China?
200
An unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Castro in 1961 led by the CIA and carried out by Exiles from Cuba
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
200
Herbicide used by Us forces in an effort to destroy the brush cover in Vietnam. Would lead to many ill health effects for veterans
What is Agent Orange?
300
FBI head who used controversial tactics such as wiretapping to spy on Americans during the Cold War
Who is J.Edgar Hoover?
300
Organization including the United States and Democratic nations of Western Europe that vowed to aid one another if attacked by communism
What is NATO?
300
US general fired by President Truman for insubordination during the Korean War
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
300
Conflict between the US and Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
1964 congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson the authority to commit US troops to Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
400
Jewish-Americans who were executed by the electric chair during the Cold War for giving away nuclear secrets
Who were the Rosenberg's?
400
Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western Europe after WWII. The policy was motivated to prevent countries from adopting communism
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
Organization formed after the Korean War as an alliance system against communism (Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, US, were some of the members)
What is SEATO?
400
US president that ok'd the Bay of Pigs invasion and dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is JFK?
400
1968 NVA holiday invasion of several provinces, bases, and US embassy which was succesfully repelled but showed the resolve of the enemy and more Americans began to question the war
What is the Tet Offensive?
500
Individual who worked in the New Deal and way accused of being a communist spy and served time in prison for perjury
Who is Alger Hiss?
500
The successful response tho Stalin's communist blockade of West Berlin
What is the Berlin Airlift?
500
MacArthurs succesful surprise landing behind enemy lines in the Korean War
What is the Inchon Landing?
500
US friendly dictator of Cuba who was overthrown in 1959