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14 Cards in this Set
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Cold War
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– Sputnik
– ICBMs – Missile Gap |
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Sputnik
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. |
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ICBMs
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the soviet had tested the first intercontinental ballistic missile |
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Missile Gap
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Kennedy argued that republicans had allowed a missile gap: Soviets had achieved technological and military superiority over the U.S. |
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1960 Election
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One of the closest in American history. Between Richard Nixon (republican) and John F.Kennedy (democrat). Kennedy wins election. |
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Soft Power
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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In April 1961, Kennedy allowed the CIA to launch its invasion, at a site known as the bay of pigs. Military advisers predicted a popular uprising that would quickly topple the Castro government. The assault proved to be a total failure. 100 killed and 1,100 captured |
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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During Kennedy administration. Soviet Union had installed missiles in Cuba capable of reaching U.S. Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev agreed to w/draw missiles; U.S. would not invade Cuba |
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Castro and the Bicycle Game
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to prove his strength |
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Ho Chi Minh andNgo Dinh Diem
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Truman andEisenhower
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Administrations that had cast their lot with French colonialism in the region. President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French, who were fighting to retain control of their Indochina colony, including Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower undertook instead to build a nation from the spurious political entity that was South Vietnam by fabricating a government there, taking over control from the French, dispatching military advisers to train a South Vietnamese army, and unleashing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct psychological warfare against the North. |
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Containment
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policy of definition. A United States foreign policy doctrine adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence.
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Equating AnticolonialismwithAnticommunism
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“Domino Effect” andfear of “losing”Vietnam
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fear of losing Vietnam made it impossible for president Kennedy and Johnson to remove the U.S. from an increasingly untenable situation |
