Cold War Anchors

Luke Yanule

Fidel Castro

Communist Dictator who took over Cuba

John F Kennedy

President during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Lyndon B Johnson

President known for escalating the Vietnam War

Harry S. Truman

President who launched the policy of containment

Gerald Ford

President when the Vietnam War ended

1947-1991

Years of the cold war

Domino theory

Belief that if one country falls to communism others will follow

Bay of Pigs

Failed attempt to overthrow Castro

Korean War

Conflict that ended in a split at the 38th parallel

U-2 Incident

Plane shot down over the Soviet Union

Berlin Airlift

Successful attempt to save half a city from communism

Marshall Plan

Program that sent $13 Billion to Western Europe

Warsaw Pact

Alliance between the Soviet Union and its allies

Truman Doctrine

Policy announcing containment

Detente

Thawing of Cold War tensions

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Policy escalating the Vietnam war

Tet Offensive

Coordinated Viet Cong strike against U.S forces

Fall of Saigon

End of Vietnam War

Vietnamization

Turning more control over to the Vietnamese

Cuban Missile Crisis

Closest the world came to nuclear war