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EOC SG 8
study for End of Coarse exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| domino theory | fight and supply border countries of communism to stop the spread or "row of dominoes" countries in line from falling to communism |
| containment theory | contain communism by supporting rebel groups and giving money to countries that surround China and other communist countries |
| Shankie Shek | supported us; controls eastern industrialized cities; flees to Taiwan establishing reneade government |
| Mao | supported by farmers; leads Red Army Mard; attacks cities |
| North Korea | invades South Korea |
| South Korea | with help of the United Nations fights back; pushes all the way to China |
| Bay of Pigs | United States' land invasion of Cuba; Cuban nationalists with U.S. air cover; Kennedy finds out at last minute about troops in Tampa ready for invasion; pulls out U.S. Air Force leaves nationalists on shore to die; fires head of CIA |
| Cuban missile crisis (1/2) | Castro secretly puts Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba as defense against another U.S. attack; U.S. calls out Russia/Cuba at United Nations; Russia lies denies existence; U.S. blockades Cuba; Russia makes secret agreement with Kennedy |
| Cuban missile crisis (2/2) | we pull our nukes out of Turkey and never attack Cuba; they remove missiles |
| Demillitarized Zone (DMZ) | trip of land between North and South Korea where no weapons are allowed |
| Pre-history of Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh studied in France, goes back to Vietnam and asks France for independence |
| Gulf of Tonkin incident | U.S. destroyer enters North Vietnam waters; fired upon; U.S. declares war, later find out it was fake; Johnson lied to esculate war |
| Hawks | people in favor of war |
| Doves | people against war |
| concientious | person who refuses to fight in war for belief |
| Vietnamization | U.S. plan to gradually withdraw from Vietnam and have their troops take over |
| Viet Cong | North Vietnamese military |
| Ho Chi Minh | leader of North Vietnam |
| Search and destroy | millitary mission with small platoons searching for and destroying stick pils |
| Agent orange | chemical spray to kill all plants and trees; causes cancer |
| Napalm | jelly gasoline in a bomb that spreads and lights whole forest villages |
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