WWII
The US, Britain, and Canada invaded this place in WWII on D-Day
What is France (Normandy)
The man who gave a speech in the march on Washington
Who is Martin Luther King jr
Group of people who revolted against the culture of the time in the 60s and 70s
What is Counterculture
Type of Fighting in Vietnam
Guerilla Warfare
The date that Al Qaeda attacked the United States with four hijacked airplanes
September 11th, 2001
What is the Manhattan project
The response of the United States when Russia closed off Berlin to any ground entry
The Berlin Airlift
The first satellite in space, launched by the Russians
What is Sputnik
The situation where the Soviet Union placed Nuclear weapons on an island close to the USA
Cuban Missile Crisis
Leader of Iraq who was attacked twice by the United States
Who is Saddam Hussein
The general who fought in WWII, took over Japan, and got fired as a general in the Korean War
Who is Douglass MacArthur
The idea that if one country falls to communism, other countries will fall
What is the Domino Theory
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed this president to invade Vietnam
Who is president Johnston
The name of the group that fought against the US in South Vietnam
What is the Viet Cong
Group of fighters based in Afghanistan
What is the Taliban
The tactic that the US used to move from island to island while building airstrips on each island
What is Island Hopping
The name of the alliance of communist countries unified under the Soviet Union in Europe
What is the Warsaw Pact
The President who initiated the movement to get the US to the moon before the end of the decade.
John F Kennedy
A court case that defeated segregation specifically in school
What is Brown v Board of Education
The president who implemented the Affordable Care Act
Barack Obama
Two islands that were located in the pacific which had a lot of deaths from the USA due to amphibious landings.
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
The name of the line that was the border between North and South Korea
What is the 38th Parallel
The Nationalist Chinese fled here after losing the Chinese Civil War
Taiwan
A large attack by the North Vietnamese that was not guerilla warfare in the later part of the Vietnam war
Tet offensive
The commodity that played an important role in the Great Recession
Houses