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23 Cards in this Set
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Gulf War
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A war waged against iraq in response for invading kuwait
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Gulf of Tonkin Incident
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One real and on unreal attack, which caused the veitnam war.
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Congress Authorized President to put troops in veitnam
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Veitnamization
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Slowly Replacing all the American troops in veitnam With south veitnamese troops
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Bay of Pigs
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Kennedy tried to invade cuba using trained cuban immigrants. failure.
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War Powers Act
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is a Federal Law intended to restrict the power of the President to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress.
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Cambodia
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Was used in the veitnam war by the viet cong as a way to transport supplies. Nixon invaded to cut off the supply chain
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Isreal/Palestine Act
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The conflict over control of isereal between The Jews and the Palestinians.
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OPEC
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Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
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Oil EMbargo
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OPEC declared this in response to the us Resupplying the Israeli SOliders
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Camp David Accords
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Agreement between Egypt and Israel
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US and Israel relations
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A supportive Relationship
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Iraq and Kuwait
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Iraq invaded kuwait, which lasted for 7 months
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Yom Kippur War
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An attempted invasion of Israel on yom kippur
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Truman
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Containment, Berlin, Korean War
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Eisenhower
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Ends Korea
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Kennedy
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All the Cuba Stuff
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Nixon
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Detente
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Johnson
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Civil Rights
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Carter
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Misc
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GHW Bush
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Middle East
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Sadam Heussein
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Dictator of Iraq
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Sadat
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Starts Yom Kippur War
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