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Main goal of blockading Cuban parts in 1962
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to prevent USSR from bringing nuclear missiles to Cuba
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Results of Cuban Missile Crisis
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phone hotline established from White House to the Kremlin so the leaders could communicate quickly in case another crisis were to arise; US and USSR agreed to a Limited Test Ban Treaty barring nuclear testing in the atmosphere; fear of nuclear annihilation
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Tonkin Golf Resolution
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President receives power from Congress to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attacked against the forces of US; thus giving Johnson broad military powers in Vietnam- Johnson unleashed Operation Rolling Thunder
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Tet Offensive
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Vietcong surprise attack during Vietnam's new year celebration in 1968 when there was supposed to be a week-long truce; lasting one month taking over South Vietnamese cities; US and South Vietnam regained control of the cities. US said we won the battle. But Tet hurt American morale as they had been told that the war was almost over- and Tet displayed the opposite
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Foreign Policy Objective i Vietnam
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Ideological-containment policy
Socio-psychological- can't "lose face" |
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descibe de'tente under President Nixon
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ease Cold War tensions between the US and China and the US and USSR . Established a friendship with the communist Chinese gov't; and signed SALT 1 with USSR
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Significance of START 1 & 2
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to reduce nuclear warheads drastically in US an USSR
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Describe the relationship the US and USSR under Reagan
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tense; Reagan increased military spending
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How did the Cold War end?
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USSR broke up- some Soviet republics became independent countries
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Result of OPEC'S oil embargo in 1973
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oil prices skyrocketed in the US; inflation; Nixon's message to Congress to conserve oil
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Main goal of Camp David Accords
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peace between Israel and Egypt; Israel would remove troops from Sinai Peninsula ; Egypt recognized Israel as a country
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Purpose of Persian Gulf War
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to stop Saddam Hussein (leader of Iraq)from taking control of one-half of the world's known oil reserves (Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) in the MIddle East
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