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the Vietcong was a group of north Veitnamese that faught in the south Vietnam against
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Vietnam war
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| if one nation becomes communist ,nearby countries will also fall to communism | domino theory |
| the Vietcong was a group of north Veitnamese that faught in the south Vietnam against | us |
| what did Kennedy intend to do by establishing the peace corps | help developing countries by digging wells at schools |
| this was built to seaperate East and West Berlin in Germany and stood for nearly 3 decades | Berlin wall |
| when Soviets tried to set up up nuclear missiles in Cuba to use on the US then US and the Soviets signed a treaty that banned aboveground testing of new nuclear weapons | Cuban missile crisis |
| what countries are in the space race | US and the SU |
| who was the first person to travel into space | Russian Yuri Gagarin |
| who was the first person to walk onto the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| who was leading the North Vietnamese that promoted communism that later had a city named after him in south Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| after gun fire was exchanged in the gulf of tonkin his gave the president the authority to take all necessary measures to repel any army attack against the forces of the US leading johnson to expand US role in vietnam to stop communism spread | tonkin gulf resolution |
| a surprise attack all over south vietnam launched by north vietnam when there was supposed to be a cease fire fire due to vietnam new years | tet offensive |
| Americans where divided over their opinions on US involved in the Vietnam war the supporters for the war were called | hawks the pones that where aginst the war were called doves |
| due to the mistrust in government officals the act was passed which required the president to get congrtessional approval before commiting US troops to an armed struggle | war powers |
| in the new elecection they tried to appeal to younge people that were against the war the amendment lowered the votiing age from 21 to 18 nixion won a seconed term | 26th |
| antiwar feelings countinue to grow and a secret government document was published revealing that US officals had been lying to the american public about the progress of the wars for years these documents were known as the | pentagon papers |
| the plan was to pull US troops from vietnam and have south vietnamese army take over all the fighting in the war in vietnam but didnt want to be t he first president to lose a war so he really kept sending troops which made americans mad | Richard nixion |
| what was the group called that fought for individual freedoms peace nonviolence and community sharing | hippies |
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