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Bay of pigs

U.S invasion of Cuba that failed. The U.S. wanted to get rid of Fidel Castro.

Fidel Castro

Communist leader of Cuba and let the ussr put missile launchers in Cuba. U.S. didn’t like him one bit.

Cuban misses crisis

USSR back down after 13 days and turned ships around, USSR remove the missiles and Cuba US removes, separately, missiles in Turkey, US and USSR established a hotline US and USSR later signed a nuclear test band treaty.

Nikita Khrushchev

Leader of USSR and really pushed for the arms race. He slo was the one who put and took out missiles in Cuba,

JFK

The US president who is assassinated he’s a very good looking man, and everybody liked him.

Lee Harvey Oswald

Oswald was a man who killed JFK and was later assassinated

Jack Ruby

Jack Ruby was the person who Assassinated Oswald.

Zapruder film

This is the film of JFK’s assassination

Ho Chi Minh

Was one of the most influential anti-colonial leaders in Asia, who led north Vietnam to fight South Vietnam, serving as president of the democratic Republican of Vietnam 1945 to 1961

Ngo Dinh diem

The Catholic ruler because they used to be Catholic because of France he was a leader of South Vietnam

Dominio theory

Idea that if a nation falls to communism, it’s closest neighboring nations will also fall under communist control

Vietcong

north Vietnamese communist rebels, who waged a gorilla warfare against the government of South Vietnam throughout the Vietnam war

Gulf of Tonkin resolution

1964 congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to South Vietnam to fight a war against North Vietnam

Agent orange

An orange was a chemical that was dropped on Vietnam to get rid of all the jungles so the US could see the enemy

Napalm

Jelly gasoline dropped in cans that explode on impact and cover large areas in flame dropped by US planes during Vietnam war

Split-screen culture

One side was the story/winning and the other story is seeing a bunch of body bags

Hawk

Person who supported US involvement in the Vietnam war

Dove

Person who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam war

Draft

When you turn 18 into a list in the draft and they picked birthdays, and if your birthday got called, you had to go fight in Vietnam

Credibility gap

After Watergate people started to distrust the government as head officials started lying to the public. Before Watergate 60% of the nation trusted the government after only 30% did.

Tet offensive

Got the US by surprised the results were many US deaths and loss of morale ended in a stalemate

Tet offensive

Got the US by surprised the results were many US deaths and loss of morale ended in a stalemate

Vietnamization

People protest, the Vietnam war, which led to protesters doing violent act. After a four day stretch, the National Guard got boxed in by people and they started shooting into the crowd. They killed four.

Kent state

People protest, the Vietnam war, which led to protesters doing violent act. After a four day stretch, the National Guard got boxed in by people and they started shooting into the crowd. They killed four.

Pentagon papers

Classified US government study that revealed American leaders involved in the US in Vietnam without fully informing the US people leaked to the New York Times in 1971

War powers act

1973 law passed by Congress restricting the presidents war making powers. The law requires the president to console with Congress before committing American forces to a foreign conflict.

Fall of the Berlin Wall

On live TV they said that you could go freely through the Berlin wall immediately. The guy never read through the papers and it wasn’t supposed to be immediately so everybody started leaving Berlin to go to East Germany.

German unification

The USSR collapse which led to east and west Germany unifying

Columbine shooting

Two boys who both had mental issues plan to bomb the schools cafeteria. The bombing failed so they went to their cars, grabbed weapons and started shooting up the school. After the shooting many other people who did school shootings, dedicated their bad doings to the columbine shooting.