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100

Theory that believed communism thrived where poverty and chaos existed

What is the Truman Doctrine?

100

President Kennedy won the Presidential election of this year.

What is 1960?

100
Fear of communism spreading to the United States and taking over our systems of capitalism and democracy.

What is the Red Scare?

100

This was the stated goal of the Vietnam War.

What is containment of communism?

100

The year that Dr. King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated as well as the Tet Offensive and the olympics in Mexico.

What is 1968?

200

Created after the US formed an alliance with capitalist nations in Western Europe known as NATO.

What is the Warsaw Pact?

200

After a lot of debate, this was the strategy that the Kennedy administration used to solve Cuban Missile Crisis. 

What is a blockade or quarantine?

200

Senator who accused hundreds of people of being communist without evidence or corroboration ruining the lives and careers of many before eventually being exposed as a liar.

Who is Joseph McCarthy?

200

The path that North Vietnam used to move supplies, weapons, and troops to the Vietncong?

What is the Ho Chi Minh trail?

200

The chemical dropped on Vietnam to root and destroy Vietcong rebels and their hiding places.

What is Agent Orange?

300

This quote was given in 1946 "A ________ has descended across the continent". 

What is the iron curtain?

300

The Bay of Pigs of invasion of Cuba was planned by the CIA under this administration.

What is Eisenhower?

300

Prompted by the growth in the middle class, delayed births during World War II, and economic prosperity in the 1950s.

What is the baby boom?

300

Congress passed the power to which president that led to Operation Rolling Thunder against North Vietnam

Lyndon B Johnson

300

Name of the process to leave Vietnam and turn war over to the government of South Vietnam.

What is Vietnamization?

400

Two countries of immediate concern for the United States to stop the spread of Communism after WWII using massive economic aid to stabilize their economies.

What is Greece and Turkey?

400

The Space Race, investment in math and science education, and increased fear were all responses to this event.

What is the launch of Sputnik (and the H-Bomb)?


*Sputnik required 

400

Loans that were secured by the government to encourage home ownership in the suburbs post WWII.

FHA

400

"You have a row of dominoes set up, knock over the first one, and what happens to last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly". was a quote given by this President about why Americans should care about Vietnam.

Who is Eisenhower?

400

This was the term given to the relaxing of tension  under Nixon for Cold War nuclear conflict following the Vietnam War

What is detente?

500

Another name for the Soviet sphere of influence they established through the Warsaw Pact and communist alliances.

What are satellite states?

500

The FIRST name of the Soviet leader who decided to build the Berlin Wall.


*FIRST name because this is a 500 question people

Who is Nikita (Khrushchev)?

500

investigated Hollywood's possible involvement in spreading communism through the movie industry.

What is HUAC?

500

Where did the reports of the attacks on the USS Maddox take place on August 4, 1964?

Gulf of Tonkin

500

Name of the multiple North Viet Cong attacks of 36 of 42 provincial capitals in 1968

What is the Tet Offensive?