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State official who suggested that soviet expansion be resisted.

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George Kennan

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Announced the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe

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George Marshall

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Founder of North Korea

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Kim Il-sung

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General who has a plan to invade Korea behind enemy lines

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Douglas MacArthur

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Senator from Wisconsin

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Joseph McCarthy

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Leader of Soviet Union after Stalin

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Pilot who was shot down by the soviets

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Francis Gary Powers

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Communitstic dictator of North Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

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Commander of US forces in Vietnam

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William Westmoreland

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Secretary of state for nixon

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Henry Kissinger

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Artist who made the Vietnam memorial in Washington DC

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Maya Lin

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Resisting the expansion of communism

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Containment

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Proposal that US and USSR spy in the open over countries

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Open Skies

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Soviet union launches a satellite over earth

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Sputnik*

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The knowledge shared by the us and soviet union that an attack by either would lead to destruction on both ends

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Mutually-assured destruction

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Blockade of Cuba during

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Quarantine

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The belief south Vietnam fell to communism that the rest would follow

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Domino effect

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Chemical used to destroy plants and sprayed around Vietnam

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Agent Orange*

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Technique used in Vietnam to enter an area to look through and kills and destroy their property

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Search-and-destroy

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Encouraged the war to continue

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Hawks

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Opposed the war

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Doves

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A condition soldiers got after war or battle

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

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People who are fleeting their country because of fear of persecution and seek safety elsewhere

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Refugees

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An attempt to ease tensions and improve relations with US and Soviet Union

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Détente

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Where General Mac Arthur group landed behind enemy lines

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Inchon

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Body of water that Vietnam attacked US with gunboats

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Gulf of Tongkin

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When the US wants broadcast to bring our side of the story to the cold war to eastern Europe

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Radio Free Europe

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Government Agency to train for spying

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Central Intelligence Agency

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Started by US, Canada, and European Allies

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National Defense Education Act

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To provide gov funding in advanced programs in math science and endangering

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Provisions of the National Security Act of 1947 (3)

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  1. Air force is separate service. (Army Air Core/Air Force)
  2. National Security Council
  3. CIA
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Goals of the Marshall Plan (4)

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  1. Opening markets, creating investment op, for American Businesses
  2. Stabilize the European economy
  3. Improve standard of living for europeans
  4. Undermine support- socialists
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Reason for the Soviet blockade of Berlin

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They did not support out British, French, US idea to unite Germany

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When did the Korean War end?

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It hasn’t ended

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Provisions of the Geneva Peace Accords of 1954 (4)

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  1. French leave SE Asia
  2. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia Independent
  3. Vietnam divided
  4. A date set of Vietnam elections
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Reason why Congress added the words “under God” to the Pledge and “in God we trust” to our money

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We want to demonstrate out religion values from the communist who are atheists

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Purpose of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

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Banning testing on Nuclear devices on the atmosphere

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Actions taken by Lyndon Johnson in escalating the war in Vietnam (4)

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  1. Increase Economic assistance on Vietnam
  2. Increase convert operation
  3. Bomb North Vietnam
  4. Deploy Us combat troops
39
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Outcome of the North Vietnamese lunar New Year offensive of 1968

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Overwhelming victory for the US and South Vietnam

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Provisions of Richard Nixon’s strategy for ending the U.S. combat role in Vietnam (4)

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  1. Peace talks with N. Vietnamese
  2. Bomb N. Vietnamese supply routes in Laos
  3. Covert ground ops in Cambodia
  4. Gradually withdraw US combat troops and handover to S. Vietnamese
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Purpose of the War Powers Act; reason why every President has ignored it

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If the president deploys troops to combat for more than 60 days he must get congressional approval , since he doesnt need permission from congress since the president is the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States

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Approximate number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War

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58,000 (8 Women)

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Action Gerald Ford wanted to take following the North Vietnamese invasion of the south; reason why he couldn’t

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Congress refused to give money

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Jimmy Carter’s response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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Boycotts the US from going to Summer Olympics

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Describe in detail the causes of the Cold War. (3)

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  1. USSR seeks to spread commuinism- US resits
  2. Atomic bomb- we have it, soviet wants it
  3. Lend-Lease ends Soviets is upset. No more free military goodies
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CIA

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Central Intelligence Agency

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