Vietnam
The Attack on the U.S. Spy Ship Maddox.
U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased dramatically after 1964. What event led to this increase?
President Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, initiated this policy intended to relax the long-standing Cold War tension between the United States and other countries.
What is détente?
Which policy mandated mileage standards for American cars?
What is the Conservation Act of 1975
What economic program of the Reagan administration led to less regulation and more national debt?
What is Reaganomics?
The Tet Offensive and the Shooting at Kent State.
What 2 factors contributed to the decline of support for the Vietnam War?
They believed that the War could not be won at any reasonable cost.
What effect did the Tet Offensive have on support for the Vietnam War?
This agreement limited how many nuclear weapons the United States and the Soviet Union could have.
What are Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT).
Which speech by President Carter addressed the problems of price inflation, gas shortages and stagnant job growth?
What is a “crisis of confidence?”
How did the Reagan administration illegally fund anti-communist forces in Nicaragua?
What is Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to Iran?
What document released to the public showed that military leaders thought the Vietnam War was unwinnable and revealed the government had misled the American people?
What are the Pentagon Papers?
A group of American soldiers had brutally killed more than three hundred unarmed women, children, and old men in the village of My Lai in South Vietnam.
What terrible atrocity in Vietnam did Americans learn of in 1969?
Nixon is perhaps best remembered for this scandal.
What is Watergate?
In 1978, President Carter won acclaim for his role in facilitating this set of agreements between Israel and Egypt. Egyptian president?
What were the Camp David Accords?
What policies introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev were designed to restructure the economy weaken the control of the Communist Party?
What are policies of glasnost and perestroika?
Horse Cavalry
What role did Helicopters play in the Vietnam War?
Agent Orange and Napalm
What 2 chemical weapons did the United States use in the Vietnam War?
In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee sent articles of impeachment to the House accusing Nixon of obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. How did President Nixon react?
What is he resigned?
Which crisis led to Islamic militants seizing control of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and taking Americans hostages?
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
America had already won the Cold War.
What was President Reagan’s message to the world when he gave a speech at the Brandenburg Gate?
After the South Vietnamese government surrendered on April 30, the country was unified and became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
What was the final outcome of the Vietnam War?
Four unarmed students were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard during a campus peace rally.
What tragic event happened on May 4, 1970 at Kent State University?
What ground breaking trip did Nixon make?
What is to China?
He offered American aid to the nations of the now former Soviet Union.
How did President George W. Bush respond to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
On November 9, 1989, the East German government opened the border to West Germany, including access through the Berlin Wall that divided West Berlin and East Berlin. What did German citizens on both sides of the wall do?
What is tearing down the Berlin Wall?
1960-1991
What years does chapter 3 cover?