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Nicknamed Victor Charlie and the Black Pajamas, they were South Vietnam guerrilla fighter who were loyal to communism.
Who was the Viet Cong?
Agreement between armies to stop fighting while negotiations are taking place.
What is a ceasefire?
USSR leader during most of the Cold War Era.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
An island 90 miles south of Florida that became a communist nation in the 1950s.
What is Cuba?
Communist dictator of Cuba.
Who was Fidel Castro?
The act of making charges against people without evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
Communist nation supported by China and the USSR and lead by Ho Chi Minh.
International agreement that separated Vietnam into 2 different countries.
What are the Geneva Accords?
US president who ramped up US involvement in the Vietnam War.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
A conflict between North and South Vietnam that the US got involved in to stop the spread of communism in the 1960s and 70s.
What was the Vietnam War?
Marches and demonstrations to show grievances against the government.
What are protests?
The belief that if one country (in Asia) falls to communism, they all will
What was the Domino Theory?
US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Surrounding of enemy territory to cut off supplies.
What is a blockade?
A standoff between the US & USSR that was the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
US senator from Wisconsin who accused some government workers of being communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The capital city of South Vietnam, which later became Ho Chi Minh City.
What is Saigon?
Free nation supported by the US and the rest of the free world who fought against North Vietnam.
What is South Vietnam?
A list of people who should be avoided by others.
What is a blacklist?
The government owns and controls everything and the people are not free.
What is communism?
The separation of eastern Europe and communist nations away from western Europe and the free world.
What was the Iron Curtain?
The US dropping supplies to west Berlin to keep the USSR from taking over.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization in which the free world agrees to protect each other from Soviet aggression.
What is NATO?
US and the rest of the free world policy meant to keep communism from spreading.
What is containment?
Agreement between the USSR and other communist countries to protect themselves from free world aggression.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Form of government in which the people have control through voting.
What is democracy.
Conflict between communist North Korea and free South Korea in the 1950s.
What is the Korean War?
Conflict between two superpower nations in which they never fight physically, but may support the smaller wars of other countries.
What is a Cold War?
Economic system in which people are free and have control over business within the law.
What is capitalism?
A time in American history when people were worried about communist spies.
What was the Red Scare?