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Cold War
Korean War
50's Society
Space Race
Vietnam War
100
Stalin taking over Eastern Europe
What is the iron curtain
100
Divided this country at the 38th parallel
What is Korea
100
Passed limiting presidents to 2 terms
What is the 22nd Amendment
100
October 4th, 1957
What is the first satellite launching
100
Vietnamese leader worked to free Vietnam from colonial rule
What is Ho Chi Minh
200
Divide Germany into four zone of occupation, new borders and free elections for Poland, and allowed Soviets to claim war reparations
What is the Potsdam Conference
200
President who ordered American troops and fleets into service in the Korean War
What is President Truman
200
The US’s 27 percent population growth increase between 1940 and 1955
What is the baby boom
200
Project to put a man into space called
What is Project Mercury
200
The guerilla fighters of the National Liberation Front
What is Vietcong
300
A struggle between communism and capitalism
What is the Cold War
300
Pacific War hero wanted full scale warfare in Korea
What is Douglas MacArthur
300
Intense fear of communists taking over US
What is the 2nd Red Scare
300
First satellite launched
What is Sputnik 1
300
Traveled quickly and quietly with little gear, and attacked suddenly and then faded into the jungle
What is Vietcong and North Vietnam
400
If the US doesn’t fight communism, then countries will fall to communism like dominos
What is the Domino Theory
400
Battle in 1951, becoming a major tuning point in the war
What is the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge
400
Falsely accusation of hundreds of people of being active Communists, ruining lives
What is McCarthyism
400
First American to orbit earth
What is John Glen
400
Campaigned to end the war in Vietnam
What is the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
500
In 1947, gave $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey
What is the Truman Doctrine
500
U.N. resolution provided military assistance for South Korea
What is Resolution 82
500
A nationwide highway network – 41,000 miles of road linking America
What is the Interstate Highway Act 1956
500
Brought the end of the Space Race
What is the moon landing
500
Attacked major cities and bases in South Vietnam, including the US Embassy in Saigon
What is the Tet Offensive