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