Question | Answer |
"He wanted a _____________ _________________ defense policy, one that prepared the United States to fight any type of conflict | flexible response |
What was created to send American volunteers around the world to developing countries on "missions of freedom"? | The Peace Corps |
Which program promised to resurrect America's Good Neighbor policy towards Latin America? | the Alliance for Progress |
The CIA led an invasion of Cuba to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro. What was the name of this military invasion? | Bay of Pigs |
What was it called when President Kennedy accused the Soviet leader of causing a "reckless and provocative threat to world peace " by building nuclear sites in Central America? | Cuban Missile Crisis |
What was the name of the first nuclear-weapons agreement which ended above ground tests? | Nuclear Test Ban Treaty |
What was the visible symbol that let the world know that Germany was divided, one side communist and the other democratic? | the Berlin Wall |
Who became the most significant voice in demanding Vietnam's independence from France, and later creating another communist country? | Ho Chi Minh |
What idea thrust the US into helping the French maintain anticommunist control of Vietnam? | the Domino Theory |
What was the name of the group that the US and seven other countries created to stop the spread of communism? | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization |
Which program promised to resurrect America's Good Neighbor policy towards Latin America? | the Alliance for Progress |
The CIA led an invasion of Cuba to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro. What was the name of this military invasion? | Bay of Pigs |
What was it called when President Kennedy accused the Soviet leader of causing a "reckless and provocative threat to world peace " by building nuclear sites in Central America? | Cuban Missile Crisis |
What was the name of the first nuclear-weapons agreement which ended above ground tests? | Nuclear Test Ban Treaty |
What was the visible symbol that let the world know that Germany was divided, one side communist and the other democratic? | the Berlin Wall |
Who became the most significant voice in demanding Vietnam's independence from France, and later creating another communist country? | Ho Chi Minh |
What idea thrust the US into helping the French maintain anticommunist control of Vietnam? | the Domino Theory |
What was the name of the group that the US and seven other countries created to stop the spread of communism ? | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization |
This authorizes POTUS "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US and to prevent further aggression." | the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
Which group supported Johnson's war policy to contain communism and suppress the domino theory? | Hawks |
Which diverse group questioned the war on both moral and strategic grounds? | Doves |
What type of warfare did the Vietcong use? | Guerrilla |
What country would have been "trampled" by communism according to domino theory? | Cambodia |
What communist country did the US strategists believe could play a role in the spread of communism? | China |