Four killed, nine wounded by Ohio National Guard during protest of U.S. invasion of Cambodia
Kent State Massacre
New nuclear weapon even more destructive than the atomic bomb
Hydrogen Bomb (H-Bomb)
The Cold War strategy of getting as close to physical war as possible without actually starting a war
Brinksmanship
Area of southeast Asia controlled by France during Imperialism. Includes Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
French Indochina
1st televised presidential debate
1960 (Kennedy-Nixon)
a plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent further aggressive moves
Policy of Containment
The Soviet Union, under Nikita Khrushchev, erected a wall between East and West Berlin to keep people from fleeing from the East, afterwards Kennedy asked for an increase in defense funds to counter Soviet aggression.
Berlin Wall (1961)
A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon.
Alger Hiss
US invested in rebuilding Western Europe after WWII to avoid it falling to communism
Marshall Plan
A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
Cold War
Capital of South Korea
Seoul
JFK's domestic program that focused on developing a Space Program
New Frontier Program
the line where U.N. troops stopped the advance of North Korea in 1950
Pusan Perimeter
Dem JFK vs. Rep Nixon. JFK won because of the civil rights issue and his better TV appearance.
1960 election
U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
JFK Inuaguration Speech
wife to FDR. First U.N Representative to the USA
Elenor Roosevelt
A policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine.
Zionism
A Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also famous for denouncing Stalin and allowed criticism of Stalin within Russia.
Nikita Khrushchev
He was an American diplomat and ambassador best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He believed the Soviets would only respect a Show of Force.
George Kennan
series of Communist attacks on 44 South Vietnamese cities; although the Viet Cong suffered a major defeat, the attacks ended the American view that the war was winnable and destroyed the nation's will to escalate the war further.
Tet Offensive
May 14th, 1948
Israel declares independence
assassinated Robert Kennedy
Sirhan Sirhan
wartime acts of cruelty and brutality that are judged beyond the accepted rules of war and human behavior
War Crimes
Place Martin Luther King JR assassinated
Memphis Tennessee
1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1960 *Soviets shot down a United States plane
U-2 spy plane incident
USA and USSR
The only two superpowers
Made up of 5 permanent members (Britain, China, France, United States, and Russia) and 10 rotating members
Security Council (UN)
A missile with a minimum range of more than 5,500 kilometers primarily designed for nuclear weapons deliver
ICBM
Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)
Fidel Castro
Ended Communist aggression in the 1980's
Ronald Reagan policy of confrontation and aggression
USSR boycotts Olympics
Los Angeles 1984
resigned for widespread evidence of his political corruption & his practice of accepting bribes
Spiro Agnew's resignation
Group of people in the film industry who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding Communist influence in Hollywood
Hollywood Ten
This was the name of the members of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam (North)
Viet Cong (VC)
An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO
Warsaw Pact
The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.
McCarthyism
1968 Presidential Election
Richard Nixon wins
November 22, 1963
The date that JFK was assassinated
established to keep avoid another World War.
United Nations
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. Usually associated with Communism
Domnio Theory
JFK's wife
JFK's wife
He was ultimately assassinated in 1968, leaving Nixon to take the presidency but instilling hope in many Americans.
Robert Kennedy
A break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington was carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and subsequent cover-up f
Watergate Scandal
July 26, 1956, Nasser (leader of Egypt) nationalized the Suez Canal, Oct. 29, British, French and Israeli forces attacked Egypt. UN forced British to withdraw; made it clear Britain was no longer a world power
The Suez Crisis
A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
Iron Curtain
closest to nuclear conflict.
Cuban Missle Crisis
Father of Modern republicanism
Eisenhower
Arrested in the Summer of 1950 and executed in 1953, they were convicted of conspiring to commit espionage by passing plans for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
gave $400 million to aid Turkey and Greece so they wouldn't fall to communist Russia
Truman Doctrine
Goal of the United Nations
World Peace
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
First man-made satellite put into orbit by the USSR. This caused fear in the US that the Soviets had passed them by in science & technology and the arms race.
Sputnik
an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
Nato
British, American and French zone of Germany and was democratic.
West Germany
Act that grants emergency executive powers to president to run war effort
War Powers Act
Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to
Potsdam Conference
A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate. Vietnam and Korea
Proxy war
Line of latitude that separated North and South Vietnam
17th Parallel
china threaten to sieze 2 islands from nationalists taiwan was communist barrier eisenhower threaten to use nuclear forces against china -china backed down
The Taiwan Crisis
Communist leader of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
British promise of support for the establishment of Jewish settlement in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration (1917)
A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States.
Vietnam war
American based left-wing terrorist group that formed out of the Students for A Democratic Society. Prominent between 1968-1973. Bombed military recruiting centers, the U.S. capital and the office of the California Department of Corrections.
Weathermen (Weather Underground)
In November 1979, revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. The Carter administration tried unsuccessfully to negotiate for the hostages release. On January 20, 1981, the day Carter left office, I
Iran Crisis
congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States
HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee
containment of communism and the reversal of Communist progress in the Western Hemisphere. Led to US Involvement in Vietnam.
Kennedy Doctrine
significant event in presidential election of 1968; demonstrated the confusion and lack of unity among Democrats; outside, protests and police brutality
1968 Democratic National Convention
A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations
NATO
Germany divided into 4 zones
US, British, French, Soviet Union
Carry an atomic bomb across continents
B-52 super-bomber
Dividing line between North and South Korea
38th Parallel
failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States, landed at the Bay of Pigs.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
this was a protest movement that grew, especially on college campuses, during the Vietnam War
Anti War Movement
Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.
Mao Zedong
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
After WWII, Germany was divided into two countries, this part was communist in government and had a command economy
East Germany
USA boycotted Olympics
Moscow 1980
Vise President to JFK,1963-1969,
Lyndon Banes Johnson
The process of the Vietnamese taking over their own country brought about by Richard Nixon
Vietnamzation
Founding of the United Nations
San Francisco Charter
Age of Camelot
Refers to President JFK's term as President
Assassinated MLK
James Earl Ray
airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
Berlin Airlift
first man in the moon, "one small step for man one giant leap for mankind"
Neal Armstrong
Policy of the US that it would defend the Middle East against attack by any Communist country
Eisenhower Doctrine
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