Early Cold War
Built by Stalin to separate Capitalist west from Communist east
What is the Berlin Wall?
Line that divides North Korea from South Korea
What is the 38th Parallel? (DMZ)
Generation born after WWII
What is the Baby Boom?
Coordinated effort of the US and Cuban exiles to over throw Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro
What is The Bay of Pigs?
If South Vietnam falls, so will Laos and Cambodia
What is the Domino Theory?
Aid to help rebuild Europe
What is the Marshall Plan?
Brought and end to fighting but still at War
What is an Armistice? (truce)
Played a significant new role in elections and the mood and opinions of war
What is television?
The Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Massive surprise attack on multiple cities that led to the capturing of the US Embassy
What is the Tet Offensive?
Claimed to have lists of Communist during the second Red Scare
Who is Joseph R. McCarthey?
Official name for minimizing a communist takeover
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Introduced the Great Society program, including Medicare/Medicaid
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The duration of the Cuban Missile Crisis (how long did it last)
What is thirteen days?
Americans questioning the conduct of the war and the motivations behind it
What is the Credibility Gap?
Logistic strategy to supply west Germany with supplies
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The US and South Korea failed to defeat the North because of
What is Chinese intervention? (out numbered)
Two events that shocked the nation during the summer of 1968
What were the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy?
Took pictures of missiles and launchers in Cuba
What is a U2 Spy Plane?
Sea battle that led to US involvement in Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
Figurative symbol dividing the Warsaw Pact from the NATO Alliance
What is the Iron Curtain?
Wanted to use atomic weapons to end the war and was fired for insubordination
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
They both brought long awaited change to America in 1964 and 1965
What is the the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act?
Secret agreement if Soviet Union removed missiles from Cuba
What is remove missiles from Turkey?
Marked the official end of the Vietnam War for the US
What is the fall of Saigon?