Origins and Early Cold War
This set of political and economic goals in the Soviet Union clashed with U.S. democratic and capitalistic ideals, causing pre-WWII distrust.
Communism
What "doctrine" aimed at preventing the spread of communism?
Tuman Doctrine
Mao Zedong gained peasant support mainly by promising what domestic reform?
Land Redistribution
The failed 1961 invasion of Cuba by U.S.-backed forces is called what?
Bay of Pigs
President Johnson’s domestic agenda that focused on civil rights, education, and poverty reduction was called what?
Great Society
Name the 1945 conference that divided Germany into four occupation zones.
Potsdam Conference
Which U.S. policy provided large-scale economic aid to help rebuild Western Europe after WWII?
Marshall Plan
During WWII, the Chinese Communists and Nationalists did what to resist Japan, before resuming civil war?
Allied/ united
The U.S. used covert efforts to destabilize Castro’s government under the codename what?
Mongoose
The August 1964 incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin led Congress to pass what resolution giving broad war-authority to the president?
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The 1948 Soviet action that prompted a Western airlift to support West Berlin is known as what?
Berlin Blockade
Which organization, created after WWII, included a Security Council with authority to authorize military action?
U.N.
Why did the Nationalists retreat to Taiwan after WWII?
They were defeated by the Communist Party
The Berlin Wall was built primarily to stop which movement of people?
East Berliners
The sustained 1965 bombing campaign against North Vietnam aimed to destroy its war-making capacity; what was this campaign called?
Operation Rolling Thunder
This series of trials after WWII established that individuals can be held accountable for war crimes even when acting for a government.
Nuremberg Trials
The 1960 U-2 incident damaged U.S.–Soviet relations because it revealed what U.S. activity over Soviet territory?
Spying
Korea was temporarily divided after WWII at what parallel, creating U.S. and Soviet occupation zones?
38th
During the Cuban Missile Crisis the Soviets agreed to remove missiles from Cuba in exchange for what public and secret U.S. concessions?
Would not invade Cuba and would remove nukes in Turkey
Name two weapons used during the Vietnam War that caused long-term environmental damage and health crises.
Napalm
Agent Orange
Winston Churchill used what metaphor to describe the growing division between Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the West?
Iron Curtain
Making aggressive accusations without any evidence
McCarthyism
The United Nations could authorize military assistance to South Korea in 1950 because which permanent member was absent and could not veto?
Soviet Union
Explain briefly why the Bay of Pigs failed.
Locals did not aid in the uprising, and no U.S. air support
Define “Vietnamization,” President Nixon’s policy for ending U.S. ground involvement in Vietnam.
Slowly withdrawing U.S. troops and allowing the South Vietnamese military to take over