Ch 23 And 24 Flashcards
Communist leader in China
Mao zedong
Communist leader in Cuba
Fidel Castro
Anti war democratic candidate who challenged Johnson in the New Hampshire 1968
Eugene McCarthy
Commander of the UN military forces in Korea
Douglas macarthur
Democrat who advocated the fair deal
Harry Truman
Conservative republican who attacked communism , he was also republican “law and order” campaign
Richard Nixon
Democrat who advocated the new frontier
John kennedy
The great society
Lyndon Johnson
Uncompromising , conservative republican candidate for president
Barry Goldwater
Judicial activist
Earl warren
Popular democratic leader murdered in 68
Robert Kennedy
Secretary of State who negotiated the SALT treaty
Henry Kissinger
Postwar competition bw the US and the SU
Cold War
Separation of Eastern Europe from the west
Iron curtain
Policy of resistance to continuing communist aggression
Containment