The Vietnam War
The US got involved in Vietnam because the country was at risk of becoming ______
Communist
The Vietnam War was the first war to have footage shown on ____, which led to many Americans losing support for the war
TV
The leader of the Soviet Union when it ended
Mikhail Gorbachev
Globalization is the the world becoming more ______
connected/integrated/interdependent
What did the US do to help break up the Soviet Union in the late 1980s
Nothing
This US President was the first to send aid to Vietnam in the 1950s
Harry Truman
Americans participated in antiwar ____ to show that they were upset with the Vietnam War and wanted the government to end it
Protests
The Soviet leader during the 1980s pushed for _____ to fix the problems of the Soviet Union in order to make the country stronger and ensure that the Soviet Union would continue to be a superpower, but it instead led to the Soviet Union collapsing
reforms
One example of globalization is the globalization of ______ where goods are made using parts from all over the world and assembled in countries different from where the company HQ is at
production
United Nations (UN)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World Bank
This Resolution allowed President Lyndon B Johnson to send the US military into Vietnam
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Anti War activists who tried to convince the government to end the Vietnam War were greatly influenced by this movement in the 1950s that tried to convince the government to end segregation
The Civil Rights Movement
The event that really led to the end of the Soviet Union was when the Soviet leader said the Soviets would not send in their _____ to communist countries that wanted to leave the Union
Army
Two drivers of globalization are technology changes and ___ ___ (where countries can buy and sell stuff to each other without high taxes)
Free Trade
The scandal during Reagan's Presidency where the US was selling weapons to Iran, then using the money from those weapon sales to fund anti-communist groups in Nicaragua and lied about to Congress and tried to cover it all up was known as
The Iran Contra Affair
The major battle in the Vietnam War that saw North Vietnamese attack all across South Vietnam on a holiday and made Americans realize they were no where close to winning the war like the President had told them
Tet Offensive
Civil Rights advocates and anti war protestors were united in their anger with the US government drafting more of this group of American men to fight in Vietnam
African Americans
One major policy that the Soviet leader pushed during the 1980s that led to the fall of the Soviet Union was _____ (restructuring the Soviet economy to allow a little bit of capitalism in)
Perestroika
One positive impact from Globalization that almost everyone in the US has experienced is
Lower prices for goods
Who was the President of the US when the Soviet Union broke up?
George H. W. Bush
The leader of the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh
This President chose not to run for reelection because he knew that most Americans were mad at him for getting the US more involved in Vietnam
One major policy that the Soviet leader pushed during the 1980s that led to the fall of the Soviet Union was _____ (openness allowing Soviets to talk about the government without fear of consequence)
Glasnost
One major negative impact from Globalization that the US has experienced is the _____ of manufacturing jobs
destruction/loss
America's role in the world changed after the fall of the Soviet Union because the US was more willing to _____ in other countries because they weren’t afraid of a Soviet response or afraid of losing an anti-communist ally
intervene/get involved/invade