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republican also running for president in 1960, went up against John F Kennedy

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Germany and the city of Berlin were divided into 4 occupational zones controlled by U.S, France, Great Brititan & the USSR

Received aid for economic recovery

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If one country falls to communism other poor countries will too, so we need to stop it before it stops

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250 Vietnamese woman and children and men were massacred by Americans who believed that they were "Vietcong"

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collage students burnt down army recruiting site because of draft, army shot back

4 students killed

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chemical weapon used to frighten and anger people

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u.s attacked by the Vietcong and north Vietnamese

american military won but huge political loss because all of it was shown on T.V

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the involuntary process that determined men's service in the war

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LBJ said the North Vietnamese attacked U.S ships in gulf of tonkin

Congress gave Johnson complete control over the army to do what was necessary w/ the Vietnam conflict

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takes over after JFK death

known for the escalation of Vietnam and work with the civil rights movement

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U.N decided that France had to leave vietnam

Vietnamese temporarily split @ 17th parallel until an election takes place to unite in 5 years

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communist leader who admired the declaration of independence and wrote his own version

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enabled North Vietnam, USSR, and China to send troops and weapons to south Vietnam

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south Vietnamese who wanted communism,

used guerilla tactics

aided by North vietnam, China and USSR

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democratic leader of south vietnam

we felt like we could control him to run the country the way we wanted but he was corrupt

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a 13 day confrontation between the us and USSR over missiles in Cuba and turkey

Khrushchev secretly began installing secret nuclear missiles in cuba

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failed invasion to kill communist leader Fidel Castro from Cuba during invasion

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Fidel Castro led a communist revolution in Cuba, kills the leader of Cuba that the USA supported and gave $$ to

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youngest elected president

known for :

civil rights

bay of pigs

cuban missile crisis

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the era after WW2 when everyone started having children

massive increase in the population

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Russian satellite launched that beat us into space, the have the technological edge

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new soviet leader after Stalin died

leader during the space race and cuban missile crisis

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central intelligence agency

created by Eisenhower to spy on the soviets

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president and former military general

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known as the H-Bomb

created and tested w/ former Nazi scientists

67x more powerful than the atomic bomb

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accuse people w/ being communist w/out any evidence

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U.S citizens who were accused of being spies and giving the soviets info to help build the H-Bomb

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scare that Russian spies had infiltrated the American government, they were trying to weaken and overthrow America's government

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told people what was American activities and what wasn't

produced anti-communist propaganda

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De-militarized zone @ the 38th parallel

still divides Korea today

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"line" that divided North and South Korea

still divides it today

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North Korea wanted unified Korea under communism so they invaded the south

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military alliance between the Soviet union and eastern europe

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

military alliance established to defend member nations from communism

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a wall to divide east and west berlin

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stalin prohibited travel into "his" part of Germany

western Allies airlifted supplies to the people of west berlin

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u.s gave aid to rebuild europes economy

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pledged to help any free people resisting communist,

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stop the spread of communism and keep it where it was

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the military, political and ideological "barrier" between the soviets and western Europe

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created in 1945

power to decide diplomatic political and military disputes

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united states political and military involvement in vietnam

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policy made by Richard nixon

end u.s involvement in the Vietnamese war

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independent country that is under heavy political, economic and military control from another country

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Chinese politician and military leader

led the republic of china

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Doves: wanted the war to end

Hawks: supported America in remaining in war until it was won

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created by Indochinese communist party

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leader of china's communist party

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designed to limit presidents ability to escalate military actions