American History: Cold War America and Modern America

Question 1

Beliefs from Karl Marxist and V.I. Lennin

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Marxist-Lennin Communism

Question 2

Focused on what would happen after WWII

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Yalta Conference

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Divided Europe as well as Communism and Democracy

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Iron Curtain

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Contain the potential spread of Communism

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Containment

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Statement made my Truman that the U.S. would help any nation or people trying to resist outside aggression (Communism)

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Truman Doctrine

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Program where U.S. would give economic assistance to countries in Western Europe to help them rebuild after WWII

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Marshall Plan

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Military alliance between U.S. and Western countries against Soviet Union and Communism

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NATO

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Both U.S. and U.S.S.R. are stockpiling nuclear weapons, led to fear of Mutually Assured Destruction

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Nuclear arms race

Question 9

Airlifting supplies to West Berlin

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Berlin Airlift

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Built to stop people from fleeing to West Berlin

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Berlin Wall

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Soviets put nuclear weapons in Cuba
U.S. put nuclear weapons in Turkey
Closest U.S. and Soviet Union were to nuclear war

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Conflict between Communist dictatorship in North Korea and Non-Communist Government in South Korea

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Korean Conflict

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Spied on U.S.S.R during Cold War

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CIA

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Anti-Communist panics throughout U.S.

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Red Scare

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Named after Senator McCarthy
Using people’s fear of Communism to political advantage

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McCarthyism

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Was ruled by France pre-WWII
Communist lead, Naturalist revolt against France post-WWII
Was divided into four countries: North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia

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Indochina

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Divided Indochina
Ruled Elections in all of Vietnam to unite country

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Geneva Agreement

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Fear if South Vietnam fell to Communism, a whole series of countries in Asia and beyond would fall to Communism

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Domino Theory

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Allowed President Johnson to take al necessary measures to deal with Vietnam

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Gulf of Tonkin resolution

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Wanted Vietnam War to continue until war was decided in their favor

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Hawks

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Wanted peace and an immediate withdrawal from Vietnam

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Doves

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Major Communist attacks by North Vietnamese on South Vietnam and its U.S. Allies on Vietnamese New Year

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Tet Offensive (1968)

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U.S. would hand job of fighting the Communists to the South Vietnamese

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Vietnamization

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U.S. Invasion of Cambodia to attack Communist hiding Places

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Cambodian Invasion (1970)

Question 25

Break in of Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate building which eventually led to to Nixon’s resignation

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Watergate

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Group of White House Staff chosen by Nixon to stop leaks

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White House Plummers

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Group of people organized to help re-elect Nixon

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Committee to Re-elect the President

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Former Marine in Vietnam who found Pentagon Papers

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Daniel Ellsberg

Question 29

Top secret papers documenting America’s mistakes in Vietnam

Answer 29

Pentagon Papers

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White House conversations recorded by Nixon

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White House Tapes

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Questioning the limit to Presidential power following Watergate

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Constitutional Crisis