Important leaders
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Events
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Events
The United States president who escalated troops in Vietnam after 1964
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
These two nations were the main Cold War superpowers.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
The Korean War began in 1950 when this country was invaded
What is North Korea?
Communist fighters in South Vietnam were known by this name.
Who are the Viet Cong?
Person that established the People’s Republic of China in 1949
Who is Mao Zeodong?
The spread of communism stopped after this major event.
The fall of the Soviet Union
This military alliance included the US and other western nations
What is NATO?
This country entered on North Korea’s side in 1950
What is China?
The U.S. supported this South Vietnamese government during the war.
What is the anti-communist government?
This was Mao’s campaign to rapidly industrialize China
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The Korean War began under this US president
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The importance of the domino theory in the US involvement in western nations
What is if one nation falls to Communism the rest pf the nations will fall to Communism?
The war ended with this type of agreement
What is an armistice?
The U.S. pulled troops out of Vietnam under this policy.
What is Vietnamization?
This was the result of the Great Leap Forward
What is widespread famine and economic failure?
After Mao, this leader was responsible for opening China’s economy
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
Reason why the US sent economic help in Western Europe
What is Containment of Communism?
Up to today this remains a neutral zone separating North Korea and South Korea
What is the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)?
This 1968 offensive shocked Americans and lowered support for the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
Mao believed in mobilizing these citizens to enforce communist ideas during the Cultural Revolution.
Who are the Red Guards?
This was the policy of easing Cold War tensions in the 1970s.
What is Détente?
This was the Soviet Union’s counterpart to NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The country was divided at this line after the Geneva Accords.
What is the 17th parallel?
The Vietnam War ended in 1975 with this outcome
What is North Vietnam victory and Vietnamese reunification under Communism?
This was the purpose of the Cultural Revolution
What is eliminate opposition to Mao’s ideas and consolidate power?