Division
The 40+ year period of hostility between Democratic US & Communist Soviet Union
The Cold War
True or False: the Vietnam War was popular with the American people.
JFK
The United States is a ________________ and the Soviet Union was ______________________.
Democracy, Communism
The United States became involved in wars in which two countries, in order to try and keep communism from spreading?
Korea and Vietnam
Where was President Kennedy assassinated?
Dallas, TX
This was the nickname for the obvious political division in Europe between Democratic West and Communist East
Iron Curtain
The idea if one country "falls" to communism, the rest will follow.
Domino theory
This president becomes the first to resign after a scandal involving a break-in at the Democratic Headquarters at Watergate.
Nixon
What country was split into "occupation zones" (Democratic east, Communist west)
Germany
This was the US policy to keep communism from spreading throughout the world.
Containment
Who killed President Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
What city was divided into Democratic west and Communist east. A wall was built to divide the two.
Berlin
Missile sites were found in Cuba, 90 miles off the coast of Florida. After this, 13 days of standoff occurred between the US and the Soviet Union. What is this event called?
Cuban Missile Crisis
This president started "Vietnamizaton" - removing US troops from Vietnam
Nixon