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Flashcards about US History, focusing on the Vietnam War, Cold War, and Reagan Era.
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Tet Offensive
Guerrilla fighters attacked American airbases in South Vietnam and most of the South’s major cities.
Napalm
A jellied gasoline that explodes on contact, dropped from airplanes during the Vietnam War.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
A route used by North Vietnamese to get supplies to the Vietcong fighting in South Vietnam.
Credibility Gap
The difference between what the government was claiming and what Americans were seeing on the evening news during the Vietnam War.
Vietnamization
Policy by President Nixon involving the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam while the South Vietnamese assumed more of the fighting.
Geneva Accords Effects
They created a temporary division of Vietnam and called for elections to be held in Vietnam in 1956.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
With the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Congress handed its war powers to the president.
Goals of Agent Orange
To devastate the Vietcong’s food sources and to destroy the Vietcong’s ability to hide in forested areas.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
An event that led to a dramatic increase of U.S. troops in Vietnam.
Cronkite as a dove
Cronkite was against the war in Vietnam.
Anti-Vietnam War Protests
Anti-Vietnam War protests often focused on the unfair draft system.
Bay of Pigs Failure
The Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba failed because a popular uprising against Fidel Castro never materialized.
Cuban Missile Crisis Outcome
The most significant outcome of the Cuban missile crisis was removing long-range missiles.
Kennedy's Space Race Motive
President Kennedy’s motive for proceeding with the space race against the Soviets was ideological.
Détente
A policy involving relaxed tensions between nations.
Cold War
A period of tension that does not involve a military action.
Brinkmanship
President Eisenhower’s foreign policy threatened war, hoping an opponent would back down.
NATO
A military alliance was formed between the United States and Western Europe after World War II.
Cuban Missile Crisis
An event described as a Cold War event.
Purpose of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was constructed to keep Germans from traveling between communist and capitalist areas.
Nixon's Visit to China
Richard Nixon visited China in 1972 to attempt to normalize relations.
Purpose of the Korean War
The Korean War was fought mainly to prevent communism from spreading to South Korea.
CIA
Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy authorized the use of covert operations by the CIA.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was President Kennedy’s attempt to stop communism from spreading to Cuba.
Containment of Russian Expansion
The United States believed that containment of Russian expansion would result in the defeat of communism.
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine promised that the United States would aid any group fighting communism.
Warsaw Pact
Eastern European countries formed the Warsaw Pact in response to the formation of NATO.
Threat of China-Soviet Alliance
The United States feared the two countries would support communist revolutions elsewhere.
CIA
An organization known for covert, or secret, operations.
Truman's Pledge
President Harry Truman was pledging to help other countries resist communism.
Truman's Action
President Truman’s action was an example of his asking Congress for funds to fight communism in Greece and Turkey.
Nixon's vietnamization plan
President Nixon’s Vietnamization plan included slowly withdrawing troops from Vietnam.
Gulf of Tonkin
Accounts of North Vietnamese torpedo-boat attacks on United States destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin during the summer of 1964 were used to justify escalation of the American war effort.
Kent State University
Kent State University was the site in 1970 of an antiwar demonstration in which four students were killed by members of the National Guard
led to increased antiwar sentiment in the United States
Significance of the 1968 Tet Offensive
Public opposition was more significant for the Vietnam War than for the Korean War
A key difference between the Korean War and the Vietnam War
Presidents deepened United States military engagement in Vietnam without a declaration of war
War Powers Act
documents that suggested the American government was lying about the Vietnam War
The Pentagon Papers refer to
To many antiwar activists, the events at My Lai
highlighted the immorality and secrecy of the war
Large increases in the incomes of wealthy Americans
“Reaganomics,” or supply-side economics, led to which of the following?
Conservatism had a widespread impact beyond the election of Reagan
a similarity between the arguments made by Rossinow and Berman
Conservatives were willing to increase government spending in order to support Cold War military interventions
the United States foreign policy during Reagan’s administrations
January 1973
Based on the chart, at what point did the Watergate break-in begin to turn into the scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency?
excessive regulations hurt the economy
Ronald Reagan encouraged government deregulation because he believed
He promised to cut taxes and He planned to increase defense spending
Ronald Reagan appealed to voters during his 1980 campaign
The end of the Cold War
Critchlow’s assertion about the Republican Party
promoting equality for gay and lesbian Americans
goals of the Reagan administration EXCEPT
The agreement reached with the Soviet Union to limit nuclear arms
best be used as evidence that Reagan's ideology “was hard to translate into a lasting shift to the right in American politics”
Conducting a buildup of nuclear and conventional weapons
the Reagan administration implement the “anticommunist ideology”