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Vietnam War
Cold War Doctrines and Polices
In Soviet Russia...
Old Stuff
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Leader of North Vietnamese forces through the 1950s and 60s
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
100
Policy of Containment
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
Political leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death
Who is Nicholas (Nikita) Khrushchev?
100
Law passed in the 1930s that allowed unions the power of collective bargaining
What is the Wagner Act?
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
Leader of the Soviet Union during its fall in the late 1980s and early 90s.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
200
Massive, unplanned development of homes and communities outside of cities throughout America.
What is Urban Sprawl?
300
Massacre of nearly 200 Vietnamese men, women, and children by American forces in 1968
What is the Massacre My Lai?
300
George Kennen wrote this to describe the physical and mental state of the Soviet Union
What is the Long Telegram?
300
Russian for openness; Gorbachev policy that allowed for more freedoms among the Russia people
What is Glasnost?
300
Allowed for returning war veterans to buy homes at low-interest rates, no down payment rates
What is the G.I. Bill?
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
The period of time of Soviet history that describes Khrushchev's reign.
What is the Krushchev Thaw?
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
In a public speech, Khrushchev rejected this as part of his greater De-Stalinization efforts
What is the Cult of Personality (Hero Worship)?
500
Grand designer of the law strategy to end the “separate but equal” doctrine
Who is Charles Houston?