Post War Review
How did the government help US soldiers returning from World War II?
Congress passed the GI Bill to help veterans find jobs and receive money for education and homes.
Who took over Cuba and turned it into a Communist dictatorship?
Who is Fidel Castro?
What were the 2 parts of Vietnam after they established their independence?
What is North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
This president was aided by the first televised debate.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
What scandal led to the resignation of Nixon?
What is the Watergate scandal?
What was the population growth in the 1950s called?
What is the Baby Boom.
What disastrous military operation contributed to the Soviets secretly installing missiles in Cuba?
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Which country did Vietnam gain their independence from in 1954?
What is France?
This President pushed 50 new laws through Congress as part of his Great Society.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
How did Lyndon B. Johnson become president?
President Kennedy was assassinated.
What mass media invention greatly changed leisure time?
What is the television?
This country sent supplies to Cuba and established missile bases on the island.
What is the Soviet Union?
What legislation passed by Congress authorized the president to "take all necessary steps, including the used of armed force" against the North Vietnamese?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This President was responsible for withdrawing US troops from Vietnam?
Who was Richard M. Nixon?
What 2 countries did Nixon establish relationships with the era of detente?
What is China and the Soviet Union?
What did Churchill say separated communist Eastern Europe from the free nations of Western Europe?
What is an "iron curtain".
Kennedy established a naval blockade around the island to prevent the arrival of more Soviet missiles. After several days the US and Soviet Union reached an agreement. This time is referred to as this.
What is the Cuban missile crisis?
On what holiday did the North Vietnamese and Vietcong conduct multiple surprise attacks?
What is Tet (Vietnamese New Year)?
This President led a plan to encourage nations to resist communist expansion.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Contrast the hawks and the doves in the Vietnam war.
Hawks- favored increased presence in Vietnam, or the escalation of war
Doves- wanted the US to withdraw completely
Who proposed a plan to give huge sums of money to rebuild war-torn European countries?
Cuba is this far from Florida.
What is 90 miles.
When communist forces captured Saigon they renamed it this.
What is Ho Chi Minh City?
This World War II hero won in a landslide victory in 1952.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Who was Nixon's Vice President that had to resign?
Who is Spiro Agnew?