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30 Cards in this Set
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Containment
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contain communist within the soviet union
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domino theory
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when on country is communist neighboring countries will also become communist
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iron curtain
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divides eastern europe from western
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berlin 1945
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end of war with germany
they divide germany into eastern and western |
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berlin airlift
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every 3 minutes a plane came/left with supplies for 4 years to berlin
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soviet nuclear weapons 1949
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soviet union has nucleaur bomb-americans now afraid
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communist revolution in china
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containment idea comes into picture
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causes of McCarthyism
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*espionage (Ethnel and Julius Rosendberg)
*Iron Curtain in eastern europe-tension *Atomic weapon threat *communist revolution in china-spread of communism *begining of korean war *hysteria in US- spread of communitsm and sympathizers |
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Downfall of McCarthyism
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*beging with CBS Edward Murrow
-portrayed McCarthy as dishonest and abusive toward witnesses *Critism -accusing people without credible evidence -used it as a counterattack to anoyone who critized him -he argued agains freedom of speech |
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MLK
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Conspiracy: memphis group afraid of strike, black group hired to shoot and kill
By whom James Earl Ray Why:trying to get equal rights for blacks Effect: largest riot in history-leader of civil rights group gone |
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Malcom X
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Conspiracy: US involvment, nation of islam
By who:talmadgehayer Why: spoke out against nation of islam Effect: controversy in black community |
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JFK
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Conspiracy: Another Shooter
Why:supported civil rights,cold war-cuba Effect-extremely well liked, disillusioned |
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RFK
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Why-pro isreal view
Effect Made public question, curse of kennedies Conspricay: 2 shoots, bodygaurd |
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Results of vietnam war
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*tropps move from shooting vietnamese to shooting americans
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War Powers Act of 1973
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congress must declare war
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TET Offensive
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attacks by vietcong against south vientnamese
*turning point in war, damgage of hope that US could win |
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Race for nuclear supperiority
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united states entered a reace with soviet union to create H bomb
Americans won the race-victory laster only a year |
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Causes of the Korean War
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*communism vs democracy
*dividing country-north and south-38th parallel |
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Bay of Pigs
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castro succeeds in revolution, USA trains cuban exiles to start a revolution to get rid of castro
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Results of bay of pigs
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*it led castro to believe US was going to invade them so he got weapons from USSR
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Causes of Cuban Missle Crisis
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*bay of pigs
*soviets wanted to place missiles near US |
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results of Cuban Missle Crisis
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Krusjefv made a deal with kennedy-middles out of turkey-in exhcange so that soviet union would pull its missles outa cuba
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French Indochina War
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Vietnam declared independece from Frane
USA helps france-$ French fight guerilla war-end up loosing |
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Signifance of fall of Dien Bien Phu
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French and America split up korea-north and south
they hope to have election-but communism become popular |
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Causes of Gulf of Tonkin
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noth vietnamese attacked americans
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Results of Gulf of Tonkin
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johnson was allowed to send in troops without declaring war-no longer allowed
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Vietnamization
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decrease USA troops levels, but at same time increase south vietnamese responsibility
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Nixon introduces Vietnamization
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decrease troops in vietnam by 150,000
increase responsibility of s. Vientnamese |
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Bombing of Cambodia
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bomb the heack out of them
protest at universites speech infirates studetns who saw nixon as escalating the war he promised to end |
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Kent state
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Army ROTC builing burnt down
soldiers present |
