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The bay of pigs and cuban missile crisis are conflicts directly related to which two superpowers?
USSR and the united states
What was the domino theory
If one country fell to communism, the others around it would
What were the people who avoided the draft called
Draft dodgers
Which presidents programs were most similar to LBJ's great society
Franklin D Roosevelt
What is the purpose of medicare
Provide insurance coverage for people over the age of 65
The Cuban missile crisis ended with
Us removes missiles from turkey and soviets from cuba
Define McCarthyism
Anti-communist hysteria
Anti-communist propaganda
Anti-communist witch hunting
What revealed the us officials had been lying to the American people about the progress of the Vietnam war for years?
Pentagon papers
An effect of the war powers act of 1973 was that..
The authority of the president as commander in chief was limited
The golf of Tonkin incident directly led to..
War in vietnam
The 1950s was known as the era of
Conformity
Which country did the us policy of containment directly stop the spread of Communism?
South Korea
The GI bill made a significant impact on post world war 2 America because it provided..
Aid to veterans for housing and college costs
During the 1950s all of the following contributed to conformity exempt..
Beat generation
This event made a turning point in the Vietnam war and Americans saw victory was far away
Tet effensive
The barrier that isolated Soviet controlled countries of eastern Europe after works war 2 was called..
The iron curtain
During the 1950s United States foreign policy was characterized by..
Containment
Why was NATO formed?
To contain expansion of the Soviet union
Which innovation had the greatest effect on American popular culture in the 1950s?
The TV
What was the event that ended the Vietnam war?
Fall of saigon
What was the plan president Truman developed to aid western countries in europe?
The Marshall plan
What was one effect of my lai massacre
Many Americans began to question us involvement in the war
The baby boom following world war 2 resulted in the..
Need to increase the number of schools in the 60s
What milestone in human space exploration took place in 1969?
The first human mom landing
This person refused to sell re-election because of the turmoil of the Vietnam war
Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)