Show:
The Nam
Potent Policies
Postwar Boom
Soviet Shenanigans
Fight for Your Right!
100
Leader of North Vietnamese forces through the 1950s and 60s
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
100
This stated that the United States would give assistance to any forces resisting the conquest of Communist forces in their country.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
This referred to the massive increase in births in the United States in the early 1950s.
What was the baby boom?
100
Political leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death
Who is Nicholas (Nikita) Khrushchev?
100
This group of U.S. citizens began attending college in much greater numbers after the war.
Who are women?
200
Leader of the South Vietnamese government through the 1950's and 60's
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
200
U.S. financial aid provided to help European countries rebuild from the aftermath of WW2
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
President Eisenhower led a vast expansion of this network in order to connect the country and provide more security for the U.S.
What is the National Highway System?
200
This refers to the incredible victory by the United States hockey team over the Soviets at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
What is the "Miracle on Ice?"
200
This court case overturned the "separate but equal" clause from Plessy vs. Ferguson.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
300
Massacre of nearly 200 Vietnamese men, women, and children by American forces in 1968
What is the Massacre at My Lai?
300
This policy stated that the United States wanted to prevent the spread of Communism.
What is containment?
300
Many families were able to achieve this by owning their own homes with two car garages in new areas called suburbs.
What is the American Dream?
300
This refers to the security alliance between the Soviet Union and the communist nations of Eastern Europe as a response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
This President had to send in federal troops to ensure that nine African-American children could integrate a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
Battle in which nearly 12 thousand French soldiers were captured by North Vietnamese Forces
What is the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?
400
Passed by Congress to allow the President Johnson to use military force in Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
400
Many World War II veterans were able to obtain job training and university educations because of this government program.
What is the GI Bill?
400
This 1950s "conflict" split an Asian peninsula into North and South countries that are still separated today by a DMZ.
What is the Korean War?
400
Privileges necessary for a functioning society
What are Civil Rights?
500
Peace convention that gave the French-Indo China colonies their independence
What is the Geneva Accords?
500
Turns farmland and forest into wasteland by stripping leaves from trees and shrubs; used by American forces in the Vietnam War.
What is Agent Orange?
500
By the end of the 1950s almost every family had one of these entertainment devices in their homes.
What are televisions?
500
The Soviet invasion of this country eventually led the United States to support the mujahadeen freedom fighters, who included a young Osama bin Laden.
What is Afghanistan?
500
This famous Dodger was the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?