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For Pol WWII - Vt
Foreign Policy from WWII to Vietnam
Question | Answer |
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Created by JFK as an aid program for the economic development of Latin American nations; undermined by our relations with Cuba | Alliance for Progress |
As part of Truman's inaugural address to supply US investment to aid agricultural and industrial development in the Third World | Point Four |
Policy to restrict Soviet expansion throughout the world | Containment |
Proposal to give massive economic aid to the nations of Europe to recover from WWII; aid was rejected by communist nations; also an attempt to minimize suffering to be exploited by communist nations | Marshall Plan |
1948 action by Soviets to refuse US, British, and France access to Berlin and Truman's response to aid the citizens of West Berlin | Berlin Blockade and Airlift |
1947 law that created the Department of Defense and CIA | National Security Act |
Term applied to the actions of the US in the 50s and the USSR under Khrushchev for maintaining peace | Peaceful coexistence |
Treaty unifying communist countries in Europe | Warsaw Pact |
Used to investigate the growth in the communism in the US | House Un-American Activities Committee |
Call for a massive military buildup and increase in defense spending as a response to Soviet military strength | NSC-68 |
Nixon's policy of replacing US forces by South Vietnamese troops trained by American advisors | Vietnamization |
1948 Treaty of mutual defense and aid with western Europe in face of growing Soviet power in Eastern Europe | NATO |
Theory espoused by Eisenhower that if one nation fell to communism, bordering countries would also fall | Domino Theory |
Established the US as a global policeman to assist free people resisting "armed minorities or..outside pressure" | Truman Doctrine |
Policy that the US must be prepared to risk war in asserting ourselves to attain our objectives | Brinksmanship |
CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles; failed miserably because of insufficient support | Bay of Pigs |
Allowed the president to extend economic and military aid to Mideastern nations to help them resist communist expansion | Eisenhower Doctrine |
Passed by Congress in 1964, it gave LBJ a "blank check" in opposing the North Vietnamese forces | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |