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US History Ch 28 B
US History Ch 28 sec 3-5 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| superpower | a nation whith enough military, political and economic strength to influence events worldwide. |
| Exiles | People who have been forced to leave their own country. |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | An attempt by the US to overthrow Castro. It was a huge embarrassment for the US. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | when the Soviet Union attempted to build nuclean weapons in Cuba. It lead to a stand off between the US and the Soviet Union. In the end the Soviet Union removed everything from Cuba. |
| Alliance for Progress | a program created by President Kennedy that tried to make reforms to improve the lives of people living in Latin America. |
| Peace Corps | a program created by President Kennedy where American volunteers worked in deveoloping countries as teachers, engineers, and technical advisers. |
| Organization of American States | a group where the US helped to promote econiomic progress in Latin American through transportation and industry. |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) | the US space program. |
| Vietcong | Guerilla fighters who supported the communists. |
| Guerrillas | fighters who made hit and run attacks on the enemy |
| domino theory | the belief that if one country in a region became communist then the rest would follow. |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Congress allowing President Johnson to take all necessary measures to try and end the war. |
| escalated | expanding the fighting in a war. |
| draft | system of mandatroy enlistment. |
| Tet Offensive | Vietcong lead attack on Siagon. |
| Khmer Rouge | Communist in Cambodia. |
| boat people | Refugees from Vietnam escaped in small boats. |
| detente | Nixon's effort to reduce tensions between the superpowers. |
| SALT Agreement | Treaty that limited the number of nuclear warheads and missiles. |
| Star Wars | a new weapons system that he hoped could destroy soviet missiles from space. |
| solidarity | an independent labor movement in Poland |
| martial law | emergency military rule |
| glasnost | the Russian term for speaking out openly. |
| summit meeting | a conference between the hightest-ranking official of different nations. |
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