Vocabulary Flashcards
A Cuban rebel who led a revolution against an unpopular dictator
Fidel Castro
Sent volunteers from to developing countries to build schools and businesses.
Peace corps
A barrier of concrete and bar wire between east and West Berlin.
Berlin Wall
A U.S. Blockade to stop soviet from bringing in more weapons.
Cuban missle crisis
First man on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
Armstrongs space partner
Edwin aldrin
Ho.chi.min
A communist
Where everyone falls to communism
Domino theory
Communist gurrilla forced called the Vietcong as its army
Vietcong
Protested the draft as well as the Vietnam war.
SDS
Emphasized individual freedom and nonviolence as well as sharing
Hippies
Promised peace in Vietnam and a peaceful society
Richard m. Nixon
Created vietnazation
Henry Kissinger
A plan to pull us troops from Vietnam and have south Vietnamese soldiers take over all fighting
Vietnamization
Lowered voting age from 21 to 18
26th amendment