Terms and Misc.
The broad definition of the Cold War
Who is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leader during WWII and right after, who made the Iron Curtain speech about containing communism? (Iron curtain= Soviet Union or USSR)
What is Winston Churchill?
Who is Harry Truman?
This incident was when a US spybomber plane went down and the pilot was questioned by the Soviet Union?
What is the U-2 incident?
What is they wanted to keep South Vietnam democratic.
The 4 presidents who were president during the Vietnam War.
What is Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard Nixon?
The spy couple who were put to death in the US for giving the Soviet Union information about the atomic bomb, so that they could make their own.
Who are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?
Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII and right after, tried to blockade West Berlin from getting food and water, but the US did the Berlin Airlift to stop him.
The country that made it to space first.
What is the USSR or Soviet Union?
This event was when US soldiers killed civilians.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
McCarthyism
What is a phenomenon named after Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who accused many people of being Communists without evidence.
President during the Vietnam War, made resolution about the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, said that US troops would start fighting on behalf of South Vietnam.
Who is Lyndon Baines Johnson?
President after Truman, made a doctrine saying that the US would assist the Middle East so that it wouldn't fall to communism.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This event early in Kennedy's presidency was a disaster, the US tried to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba and failed.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This event was in 1969, when Nixon wanted to hand over more control of the war to the South Vietnamese.
What is Vietnamization?
Arms Race
The US and the Soviet Union racing to create as many nuclear weapons as possible.
Has a trail named after him, leader of Communist North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
US Secretary of State during and right after WWII, has a plan named after him to give Europe monetary aid to rebuild right after WWII.
Who is George Marshall?
The US got involved in this proxy war in 1950, it ended in stalemate, with both countries staying separate countries. (One communist, one democratic).
What is the Korean War?
What is the Pentagon Papers case?
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Leader of the Chinese Communist Party, first leader of the Communist People's Republic of China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Name two artists that we listened to last week that were part of the counterculture (Anti-Vietnam War/anti-governmetn) movement of the 1960's and 1970's?
Who are: Edwin Starr, CCR, The Doors, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
This crisis almost lead to nuclear war with the Soviet Union, because the Soviet Union had missiles aimed at the US from Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This group was of college students who were against the Vietnam War and were part of the broader counterculture movement.
What is SDS, or Students for a Democratic Society?