Early Cold War Nonsense
This 1947 policy promised U.S. economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This was built in 1961, separating East and West Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall
President Carter met with the President from Egypt and Israel for face-to-face negotiations between the two countries, after which an agreement was reached known as the ______ ________ _______.
What is the Camp David Accords
This president came up with his own idea on how to fix the American economy known as "supply-side economics" or "_______________"
What is Reaganomics
As leader of the Soviet Union, he blockaded Berlin and established satellite nations in Eastern Europe.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This 1947 economic initiative aimed to rebuild Western European economies to make them resistant to communist influence.
What is the Marshall Plan?
A ___________ _____ was caused by the American people feeling as though our government was lying to them, which led to many Americans losing faith in our governments reliability.
What is Credibility Gap
This national organization put an embargo on the U.S. in 1973, causing the price of oil to shoot up overnight.
What is O.P.E.C.
First female Supreme Court Justice
What is Sandra Day O'Connor
This 1950-1953 conflict was fought to prevent the communist North from taking over the democratic South.
What is the Korean War?
This foundational U.S. foreign policy, aimed to stop the expansion of Soviet power.
What is Containment?
This lasted for nearly twenty years and ended with the Fall of Saigon and the country being taken over by Communists
What is the Vietnam War
When Nixon took over as president during the Vietnam War, he incorporated _____________, which was the gradual removal of U.S. troops putting more of the war effort back onto the South Vietnamiese
What is Vietnamization
Members at the U.S. embassy in Iran were taken hostage and held for 444 days until the day Ronald Reagan took office as President
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis
This 1944 act, also known as the GI Bill, provided funding for college and home loans for returning soldiers.
What is the Servicemen's Readjustment Act?
This term, coined by Winston Churchill, described the imaginary line dividing Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe from Western Europe.
What is the "Iron Curtain"?
13 days in October that became the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
Political scandal that occurred after five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters.
What is Watergate?
This started following Saddam Hussein's (Iraq) invasion of Kuwait for oil and his refusal to withdraw from the country following requests from the United Nations to do so.
What is the Persian Gulf War (1990)
This geographical line served as the border between North and South Korea both before and after the war.
What is the 38th Parallel?
Signed by Truman in 1948, this desegregated the U.S. armed forces, partly to showcase democracy against Soviet criticism.
What is Executive Order 9981?
The belief that if South Vietnam were to fall to Communism, other countries near it like Cambodia, Laos and Thailand would soon face the same outcome.
What is the "Domino Theory"
This man from Cuero, Texas won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Vietnam War
What is Roy Benavidez
Secret foreign policy operation during the Reagan administration that involved selling guns to "terrorists" and funding rebels in Latin America
What is Iran-Contra Affair
Wrote the "Feminine Mystique"
Who is Betty Friedan