Red Scare
This U.S. senator from Wisconsin led a crusade against alleged communists during the Second Red Scare.
Joseph McCarthy
This communist leader fought for Vietnamese independence from France and later led North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
This fallacy involves drawing broad conclusions from too little evidence.
Hasty Generalization
This controversial U.S. prison holds terrorism suspects without trial.
Guantanamo Bay
With a previous career as a journalist for KGW, this man is usually considered the greatest governor in Oregon history after having left a legacy of environmental protection and conservation
Tom McCall
This Congressional committee investigated suspected communists like Alger Hiss and the Hollywood 10
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
This communist guerrilla group fought U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.
Viet Cong
This fallacy occurs when only measurable data is considered, ignoring important qualitative factors.
McNamara Fallacy
This was the political party of the Assad family in Syria and Saddam Hussein in Iraq
Ba'ath Party
This Oregon governor is known for his environmental protection policies, but he really cut his teeth as the State Treasurer advocating for better investments with PERS (retirement pensions for public employees)
Winston Churchill coined this term to describe the divide between the Eastern and Western Bloc in Europe
The Iron Curtain
This unpopular South Vietnamese president was assassinated in 1963 amid a Buddhist crisis.
Ngo Dinh Diem
This fallacy distracts from the real issue with irrelevant information.
Red Herring
This militant group emerged from the chaos of post-war Iraq and Syria.
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
This bill made customers make a deposit on every recyclable can or bottle they bought and would give it back to them once they had recycled them at designated receptacles
The Bottle Bill
This couple was executed for allegedly passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
This strategy aimed to win Vietnamese “hearts and minds” while removing the Viet Cong.
Pacification
This fallacy assumes one event will inevitably lead to a series of worsening events.
Slippery Slope
This provisional authority helped create new Iraqi government after the U.S. invasion.
Iraqi Governing Council
This bill established Oregon beaches as a public highway
The Beach Bill
This new foreign policy precedent established America has a world policing power as we sought to uphold self-determination in the face of oppressors
Truman Doctrine
This event, though possibly exaggerated, was the excuse utilized by the Johnson administration to argue for an escalated presence in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
This fallacy misrepresents someone’s argument to make it easier to attack.
Straw Man
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What were the two pieces of "evidence" the American government used to rationalize an invasion of Iraq in 2003?
This policy, championed by Tom McCall, sought to prevent urban sprawl