Domestic
Enemy of U.S. due to lack of trust, competing interests, and opposing ideologies.
What is the Soviet Union?
What is the Iron Curtain?
Communist country that entered the Korean War to defend its border.
What is China?
Name for "race" to acquire the most nuclear weapons.
What is the arms race?
Constitution divides power between three branches of government.
What is the separation of powers?
Led the Red Scare during 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Event symbolizing the collapse of the Iron Curtain and Soviet Union.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Leaked documents that proved the U.S. Government lied about the Vietnam War to protect national security.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
Belief that nuclear weapons would stop a country from taking military action.
What is deterrence?
Attempted to resolve tensions over slavery, but it included the infamous Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
[True or False] Anti-war protests increased after the Tet Offensive, My Lai Massacre, and Pentagon Papers.
True but not all Americans supported the protests.
Loans intended to protect European democracies and contain communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
United States primarily joins this conflict to stop "dominoes" falling across Asia.
What is the Korean War?
Also: Vietnam War
Cold War competition over rockets, prestige, and technology.
What is the Space Race?
Term for the national (federal/central) government sharing power with states (local).
What is federalism?
Nixon officials burglarized political opponents, and the cover-up was worse than the crime.
What is Watergate?
Period of reduced tension and increased cooperation between the US and USSR.
What is detente?
President who first tried to "contain" communism by intervening in Greece and Turkey.
Who is Truman?
[True or False] Communication between the United States and Soviet Union decreased after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
False, the US and USSR established a hotline to prevent an accidental nuclear war.
Allied powers met to decide how Germany would be divided after World War 2.
Yalta Conference
Also: Potsdam Conference
Committee that investigated "communists" and ruined lives of many innocent people.
What is the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
U.S. formed and led military alliance that provides for mutual defense of member states.
What is NATO?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
[True or False] The War Powers Act of 1973 limited the President's ability to fight wars without the approval of Congress.
True, Congress wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes that led to Vietnam War (Gulf of Tonkin).
JFK's response to the Soviets secretly setting up missiles in Cuba.
What is naval blockade?
Popular pamphlet published to persuade Americans to support declaring independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?