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Post WW11 Cold War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cold War | A perios of hostility between Western Powers and Communist Powers |
| Marshall Plan | The idea that the US could help rebuild wartorn Europe with loans and other economic aid |
| Containment | A foreign policy that attempts to stop the spread of communism without ending it in the countries in which it already exists |
| Berlin Airlift/Wall | In 1948 the Soviet Union blocked all travel and transport between WestGermany and the city of Berlin. The US and Britain flew in supplies for more that a year. |
| Truman Doctrine | A foreign policy attempting to contain the spread of communism, beginning with aid to the monarchies of Turkey and Greece without ending it in the countries |
| McCarthyism | Contributed to fears in the early 1950s by charging that Communists were working inside the State Department of the US |
| NATO/SEATO | The US along with other Western European Countirs joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The members promised to defend each other if attacked. |
| Korean War | In 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea and US entered the war to support South Korea |
| Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis | A threat to National security that occurred when the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba |
| Vietnam War | Ongoing conflict between North (Communist) and South Vietnam which we eventually entered in 1965 |
| Space Race | The desire to go into space was seen as a "race" between the Soviet Union and the US |
| Fidel Castro | Communist Dictator of Cuba |
| Domino Theory | The idea that Communism would spread rapidly throughout Southeast Asia |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | Gave President Johnson the power to send combat troops to Vietnam |
| Great Society | President Johnson's legislative Plan that included civil rights laws |
| Agent Orange | A chemical used in the Vietnam War to kill dense forests |
| Kent State | Students were killed at this university while peacefully protesting the Vietnam War |
| Warsaw Pact | In 1055 the Soviet Union created a unified system of military commend between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite countries for their defense |
| Berlin Wall | A barrier of concrete and barbed wire between Communist East Berlin and West Berlin built in 1961 |
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