Korean and Vietnamese Conflicts/Wars
Divided at the 38th parallel after WWII, with Soviet forces in the North and US Forces in the South.
What is Korea?
As a result of the 1973 Yom Kippur War OPEC placed an embargo on oil sold to
Who are the supporters of Israel?
Ran in the election of 1964 against Johnson and Humphrey and advocating ending the welfare state and the TVA and other government programs.
Who is Barry Goldwater of Arizona?
Under Reagan's administration the was a significant increase in military spending. One program wanted to focus on lasers and particle beams to destroy missiles before they reach the US. This was named...
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or nickname "Star Wars"?
Became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after Earl Warren resigned.
Who is Warren E. Burger?
After Kennedy's assassination's Vietnam began to fall apart even more under his administration. In one year South Vietnam had 7 different governments.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Agreements signed by George H.W. Bush and leaders of the Soviet Union in the early 1990's reducing number of Nuclear Warheads.
What are START I and START II?
Passed in 1964 and expanded the federal program to help low-income people buy good.
What is the Food-Stamp Act?
CIA trained force of Cubans planned on starting an uprising and overthrowing Castro landed here in 1961, but failed in their mission. This was used by Castro to get more aid from the USSR.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Dobbs vs. Jackson...overturned this major 1970's Supreme Court Case
What is Roe vs. Wade?
August of 1964, North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fired on U.S Warships on the coast of Vietnam resulting in this, which gave President a "blank check" to protect U.S. interests there.
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
In 1989, its fall was a symbolic end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Passed in 1965 to help provide health insurance to all people over 65 years of age.
What is Medicare?
13 Days in October of 1663 that saw high tensions between the USA and USSR.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Names given to the supporters and opponents of the war in Vietnam.
What are the "hawks" and "doves"?
Musical festival in the 1960's which caused backlash and help fire a rise in conservatism.
What is Woodstock?
In response to his book Unsafe at any speed (1965) Congress passed many laws on safety for...
What is the automobile industry?
Under the Administration of Nixon, he and Kissinger took advantage of a rivalry between USSR and PRC and helped bring about a "Cooling Off" of cold war tensions called a
What is a Détente?
Starting with a recession in 1970, the US economy faced a slowdown and high inflation which Nixon referred to as
What is Stagflation?
The American public was shocked with they learned about the "secrets" and "mistakes" of policymakers dealing with the war in Vietnam through the publication of these.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
Vice President who was appointed President after Watergate and Nixon's resignation.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This was passed during the Great Society, and ended the ethnic quota acts of the 1920's favoring Europeans.
What is the Immigration Act of 1965?
Were agreements/negotiations by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons.
What were SALT I and SALT II?
What are WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons?