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| What was FDR’s last international conference for postwar purposes? |
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| What did FDR call our foreign policy toward Latin America? |
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| What were the stated goals of the Atlantic Charter? |
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1. Freedom of the Seas
2. No territorial expansion
3. Termination of the Nazi regime
4. Any territorial adjustments would be made only with the consent of the people involved. |
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| What were two points the Nye Committee tried to make that concerned the American people when the war in Europe began? |
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1. They blamed bankers for forcing Wilson to enter WWI
2. They also blamed the war industries because they, along with the bankers, were the only ones to prosper during the catastrophic war. |
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| What was the turning point sea battle in the Pacific? |
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| Whom did FDR choose to be his VP in his last term? |
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| Truman instead of Wallace |
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| What strategy was used to defeat the chain of island defenses held by Japan? |
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Definition
| Island Hopping, created by Nimitz |
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| How did FDR skirt the intent of neutrality legislation in his helping of China against Japan? |
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| Since FDR wasn’t allowed to help or provide aid for any wars, FDR said that the expansion of Japan in China was not considered a war. Therefore, he was allowed to provide aid because it wasn’t technically a way. |
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| In what way was neutrality different before our entry into WWII from before our entry into WWI? |
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| There was a more neutral atmosphere during WWII. The neutrality proclamations said that an American could no longer ride on the ship of a belligerent because we didn’t want the same thing that happened in WWI, where we needed to respond to Americans dying at sea, to happen in WWII. ALSO, we had Cash and Carry now instead of using our ships to sell or buy foreign goods. |
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| What reassuring promise did FDR make to American parents in the election of 1940? |
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Definition
| “Your boys will not be going into any foreign wars” |
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| What was a main point of the Casablanca Conference? |
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Definition
| Britain and U.S decided to invade Sicily |
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| What was a main point of the Teheran Conference? |
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Definition
| Britain and U.S decide to liberate France while Soviets continue their war with Germany. |
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| Whom did the US and Great Britain agree to beat first? |
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| What was done to Japanese Americans on the west coast? |
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Definition
| They were forced to leave their homes and go to internment camps |
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| What was the Supreme Court case involved in No. 14 and what was the decision? |
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| Korematzu V.S U.S. It decided that the interment of the Japanese was justified during war time. |
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| Who said, “I shall return.”? To what was he referring? |
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Definition
| Douglass MacArthur in regards to the Philippines |
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| What was a major point of the Dumbarton Oaks conference? |
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| What were three topics discussed at Yalta? |
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1. Soviets will get the Kurile islands and concessions in Manchuria
2. Soviets agreed to eventually enter the war against Japan (but they didn’t enter until after Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
3. Germany will be broken up into occupation zones
4. the UN was going to be created
5. Eastern Germany will get to hold open elections (the Soviets agreed to this but they eventually took over East Germany, which was one of the reasons for the Cold War and the animosity between U.S and USSR.) |
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| What was the name of the project that developed the A-bomb? |
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| What two Japanese cities were hit by A-bombs? |
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| What did the Stimson Doctrine state? |
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| That the U.S will not recognize the new Japanese regime in Manchuria because they violated the open door policy and didn’t respect the integrity of China |
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| What were FDR’s Four Freedoms? |
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Definition
| Freedom of Want, Fear, Speech, and Religion. |
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| What British Prime Minister thought appeasing Hitler was a good idea? |
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| Name a famous American who was a strong isolationist. |
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| What two leaders made an agreement which doomed Poland? |
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| Who promised the British people “blood, toil, tears and sweat”? |
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| What was another name for the Selective Service Act? |
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| What act allowed Britain to get ships from us? |
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| What date did FDR say would live in infamy when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor? |
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| How many times was FDR elected to the presidency? |
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Definition
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| What was the outcome for the Cairo conference? |
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Definition
1. Korea gets their freedom
2. Unconditional surrender from Japan and they need to return all land
3. Eisenhower becomes general of the U.N army |
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| What was the outcome of the Yalta conference? |
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Definition
| Occupation zones, Kuerile Island and Manchuria, UN, enter war against Japan, Eastern Europe gets open elections |
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| What was the outcome of the Casablanca conference? |
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Term
| What was the outcome of the Teheran conference? |
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Definition
| Liberate France, finish off Germany |
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Term
| What was the thrust of the “unconditional surrender” doctrine? |
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| All the axis powers need to surrender without any propitious conditions of their own. When Japan said that they would only surrender if they get to keep their emperor, the U.S bombed them. |
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Term
| Who was FDR’s long time Secretary of State? |
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Term
| What country did the FDR administration first recognize in 1933? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was FDR’s reference to “quarantine” about? |
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| FDR gave a quarantine speech that if any nation does something unjust or illegal then the democracies of the world should get together and “quarantine” the aggressor. FDR gave this speech in response to the Japanese invasion of China, but the Americans responded with animosity. |
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Term
| What were the provisions of Lend-Lease? |
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Definition
| We lend British weapons; they pay for it or give it back later |
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Term
| What two specific actions did Truman take that initiated his Truman Doctrine? |
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| Truman gave 400 million to Turkey and Greece in response to Soviet demands and communistic uprisings |
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Term
| Who first proposed, in a foreign policy journal, the idea of containment of the Soviet Union? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the official name of the Marshall Plan? |
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| What country was the first to recognize Israel? |
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Definition
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| How did Truman meet the closing of the Autobahn? |
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Term
| What were the initials standing for in NATO? |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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Term
| Why did Truman fire MacArthur? |
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Definition
| For insubordination. MacArthur strongly disagreed with Truman in regards to bombing and attacking China, the real enemy. MacArthur sent a letter to someone saying that “There is no substitute to victory.” Truman decided he had enough and fired MacArthur but many people agreed with him over Truman. |
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| What did Churchill say had descended over Europe from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic? |
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Definition
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| Some historians point to American contributions to the onset of the Cold War. Name some. |
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Definition
1. Second Atomic bomb
2. Anti communist rhetoric
3. Troops in Europe
4. We invaded the soviet union after WWI |
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Term
| Some historians point to Soviet contributions to the onset of the Cold War. Name some. |
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Definition
1. Broke its pledges on Poland
2. Took over eastern Europe
3. Tried to stay in Iran
4. Had spies in America
5. Stole our atomic secrets |
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Term
| What was Truman’s first conference? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the thrust of the China Lobby? |
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Definition
| America needs to support Chiang over the communistic Mao in China |
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Term
| What did the National Security Act of 1947 say? |
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Definition
It created:
1. The Department of Defense
2. The Central Intelligence Agency
3. The National Security Council |
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Term
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Definition
That we need to:
1. Increase our money spent on defense
2. Increase our arms buildup
3. Create treaties with all the anti-communistic nations |
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Term
| What was the parallel that divided North and South Korea? |
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Definition
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Term
| What did HUAC stand for and what did it do? |
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Definition
| House Un-American Activities Committee and they were created to find communists in the U.S. They searched through Hollywood they were involved in the Hiss case. |
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Term
| What were the Rosenbergs executed for? |
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Definition
| For giving the soviets information about the Atom Bomb |
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Term
| What congressman caught Alger Hiss in a lie with respect to Whittaker Chambers’ charges? What did Chambers essentially charge? |
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Definition
| Nixon. Chambers said that Hiss tried to sell secret state department documents through him to the Soviet Union. |
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Term
| What did the McCarran Internal Security Act say? |
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Definition
| 1. No American can support a communist government
2. No one could get employed to them
3. detention camps if people don’t follow these laws. |
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Term
| Whom did Truman fire as Secretary of Commerce when the Secretary said the Soviets should be given the benefit of the doubt? |
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Definition
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Term
| What policy was the idea that the Soviet Union should be surrounded by a chain of alliances? |
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Definition
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Term
| From what country in the Middle East did the US pressure the Soviet Union leave in 1946? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the Baruch Plan for Atomic Energy? |
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Definition
| To limit the number of nuclear arms being tested and created. The Soviets refused to join the plan. |
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Term
| What “message” does this quote come from: “support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities.” |
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Definition
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Term
| What did Truman’s Executive Order 9835 say in March, 1947? |
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Definition
| Established the loyalty review board and investigated America to find communist influences in the federal government. |
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Term
| Who was the Secretary of State who proposed the idea of massive retaliation and under what president? |
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Definition
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Term
| What do SEATO, ANZUS, CENTO stand for? What was their purpose? |
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Definition
1. South East Asia Treaty Organization- in order to prevent the fall of communism in South East Asia…came about after division in Vietnam
2. Australia New Zealand and United States Security treaty- treaty binding these three countries to help out in any battle in the Pacific Ocean
3. Central Treaty Organization- it bound all the nations into mutual cooperation in battles but non-intervention in each other’s affairs. |
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Term
| Who were our allies under the Baghdad Pact? |
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Definition
| Great Britain, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Turkey. |
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Term
| What two leaders of what two countries met in the 1950s “summit” conferences? |
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Definition
| Eisenhower and Khrushchev |
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Term
| Did Eisenhower take Israel, Britain and France’s side in the Suez crisis or did he take the Soviet’s side? |
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Definition
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Term
| Did Eisenhower give aid to the Hungarian revolt? |
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Definition
| No because of the spirit of Geneva |
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Term
| Upon leaving office, what did Eisenhower see as a threat to the democratic process (three words)? |
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Definition
| Industrial Military Complex |
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Term
| What did Eisenhower’s explanation—that one country falling to communism eventually would lead to one after the other neighbor also falling to communism—eventually come to be known as (two words)? |
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Definition
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Term
| Over what event was Eisenhower caught in a lie by Khrushchev and what was K’s way to “punish” him? |
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Definition
| U-2 event. Khrushchev shot down an American plane and discovered that it was a spy plane trying to get information from the Soviets. K punished E by not meeting him in France in 1960 |
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Term
| What was the Eisenhower Doctrine? |
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Definition
| It said that we will provide military aid for any country in the Middle East who is being threatened by communism. |
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Term
| What threat may have brought China and North Korea to the peace table to end the Korean War? |
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Definition
| Nuclear weapons (Atom Bomb) |
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Term
| What was the Formosa Resolution? |
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Definition
| Committed the U.S to helping Formosa or Taiwan if it is attacked by China’s communistic army. |
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Term
| Between his election and his inauguration, what country did Eisenhower visit to fulfill a campaign pledge? |
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Definition
| Korea- in order to end the war |
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Term
| Who is given credit for the idea of “brinkmanship” and what did it say? |
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Definition
| Dulles- that America should take full action and limit communism until we are on the brink of war with the communist powers because they would back down because of America’s nuclear superiority. |
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Term
| Who was Eisenhower’s vice-president? |
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Definition
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Term
| Whom did Eisenhower support in ruling Iran? |
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Definition
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Term
| What communist revolutionary overthrew the corrupt government of Cuba in 1959? |
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Definition
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Term
| What does ICBM stand for? |
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Definition
| Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
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Term
| In 1954, what country did the Geneva Accords refer to? |
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Definition
| Vietnam- it divided it into north and south |
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Term
| Did American presidents in the 50s support “rollback” or “status quo” with respect to Eastern Europe? |
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Definition
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Term
| Give the whole “pay any price, bear any burden” sentence. |
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Definition
| In his inaugural address in 1961 Kennedy said “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any enemy, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.“ |
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Term
| What were two foreign policy negatives for the Kennedy administration? |
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Definition
1. The Berlin Wall was built
2. Cuban Missile crisis was bad and good, but it did not let us invade Cuba and left Castro there |
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Term
| What was generally considered JFK’s greatest foreign policy success? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the purpose, structure of the Peace Corps? |
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Definition
| It gathered young volunteer Americans to help developing nations with technical aid |
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Term
| What was the thrust of the Alliance for Progress? |
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Definition
| To promote land reform and economic development with regards to Latin America. |
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Term
| What was the flexible response doctrine? |
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Definition
| McNamara and JFK decided to go against Dulles diplomacy and they increased spending on conventional arms instead of nuclear arms so they can have more ability to fight. |
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Term
| What was the Cuban Missile Crisis deal? |
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Definition
| We are not allowed to invade Cuba and all of Cuba's missiles are removed, but Turkey's are too |
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Term
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Definition
| It was a telecommunication system between America and Russia so Khrushchev and JFK could talk directly during times of crisis. |
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Term
| Where did JFK send troops because of the Laos chaos? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| To ease tension and create peaceful coexistence in the west especially with China and the Soviet Union. |
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Term
| Where did JFK send “advisers” to meet a communist threat? |
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Definition
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Term
| What did “MAD” stand for? |
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Definition
| Mutual Assured Destruction- If you set a nuclear bomb on us we will respond and everything will be destroyed |
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Term
| What was Robert McNamara’s role in the JFK administration? |
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Definition
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Term
| What did JFK say there was in terms of the US-USSR arms gap in the election of 1960? |
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Definition
| There was a nuclear arms gap in favor of the Soviets even though it wasn’t true. |
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Term
| What event inspired JFK to say, “Ich bin eine Berliner.”? |
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Definition
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Term
| What program did Kennedy launch to aid in Latin America? |
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Definition
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Term
| Who was the youngest president in US history? |
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Definition
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Term
| What did the Gulf of Tonkin resolution say? |
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Definition
| It gave LBJ a blank check and told him that he should take all necessary measures to protect U.S interest in Vietnam |
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Term
| To what Carribean country did LBJ send troops? |
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Definition
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Term
| What did the Johnson Doctrine say? |
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Definition
| The Johnson Doctrine stated that the U.S has a right to intervene in the western hemisphere if there is an attempt to spread communism because that is not considered a local matter. |
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Term
| With whom did LBJ meet for a summit in 1967 and where? |
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Definition
| In 1967 at the Glassboro Summit, LBJ met with the Soviet leader Kosygin to talk about Soviet-U.S relations. |
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Term
| What major assault by North Vietnam was decisively defeated by the US forces, yet was reported as a disaster for the South by the media? |
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Definition
| Tet (Vietnam lunar New Year) offensive |
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Term
| What major decision did LBJ make during the primaries in 1968? |
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Definition
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Term
| What did LBJ do to help Humphrey just before the 1968 election? |
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Definition
| In Salt Lake City, Humphrey gave a speech how terminating the bombing in Vietnam might help create a risky peace. To help Humphrey win support, Johnson stopped the bombing in Vietnam |
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Term
| What did North Korea do that created a crisis for the US in 1968? |
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Definition
| The Koreans attacked the U.S ship called the pueblo |
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Term
| What were the nicknames for the pro-war and anti-war types? |
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Definition
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Term
| Finish this chant: “Hey, hey, LBJ……..?” |
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Definition
| HEY HEY LBJ HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU KILL TODAY! |
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Term
| Who said he could see the “light at the end of the tunnel.”? To what was he referring? |
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Definition
| Westmoreland and he was referring to the end of the Vietnam War. |
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Term
| What two people ran against LBJ in the primaries? |
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Definition
| Bobby Kennedy and McCarthy |
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Term
| At what convention were there anti-war riots in 1968? |
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Definition
| Democratic convention in Chicago |
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Term
| What did “guns” and “butter” mean as an issue at this time? |
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Definition
Guns- military investments-guns, weapons, soldiers, nuclear arms.
Butter- civilian goods…Johnson had many economic programs that were strained because of the amount of money spent on “guns” |
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Term
| What French word came to describe the thaw in US/USSR relations in the 1970s? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the term used by Nixon to explain the gradual pullout of US troops to be replaced by South Vietnamese troops? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the Nixon Doctrine? |
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Definition
| From now on the U.S will support any foreign Asian ally, but not with troops or ground support, just with supplies and advis |
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Term
| What country did Nixon visit to become the first president to do so? |
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Definition
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Term
| What action near Vietnam brought howls from the left-wing of American politics when Nixon did something as a secret action? |
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Definition
| After announcing that he was going to relieve most of the troops in Vietnam, he attacks Cambodia, in an effort to destroy Vietnamese country bases in that country. |
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Term
| What horrible slaughter of villagers in Vietnam made Americans wonder how our soldiers could do such a thing? |
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Definition
| Slaughter in the Vietnam village of My Lai |
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Term
| What team did Nixon send to China to open diplomatic relations? |
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Definition
| Nixon sent a ping pong team to Japan to compete…later Nixon went himself to China being the first president to do so. |
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Term
| What was the ABM treaty about? |
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Definition
| Anti-ballistic missiles- a treaty that the U.S made with the soviets to limit the new technology of ABM’s. |
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Term
| Who was Nixon’s most important Secretary of State? |
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Definition
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Term
| What did OPEC do when the US supported Israel? |
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Definition
| OPEC withheld their oil from us after we supported Israel in the 1973 war |
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Term
| Find an important Israeli leader’s opinion of Nixon. |
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Definition
| Beagan and Golda Meir, "the best friend Israel's ever had" |
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Term
| What does SALT stand for? |
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Definition
| Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty |
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Term
| What were the conditions on presidential action set by the War Powers Act? |
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Definition
| President needs to inform Congress of his foreign decisions before 48 hours and Congress needs to approve of anything lasting more than 60 days |
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Term
| What was the Pentagon Papers flap about? |
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Definition
| Revealing the deception and failures of the American Government in regards to the Vietnam War. The information was given by Ellsberg |
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Term
| When was the treaty with North Vietnam ending the war? |
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Definition
| 1973 with the U.S-Paris Accords- but the war didn’t really end till 1975 |
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Term
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Definition
| Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
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Term
| What did the Democrat controlled Congress tell Ford when, in 1975, he asked for funds to support South Vietnam defending itself? |
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Definition
| Only humanitarian assistance. |
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Term
| Approximately how many US lives were lost in Vietnam? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was Carter’s greatest and only foreign policy triumph? |
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Definition
| Camp David accords- helped facilitate peace between Egyptian leader Sadat and Jewish prime minister Begin- Egypt recognized Israel’s state while Israel gave Egypt back some land that they conquered in the 1967 war |
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Term
| What two actions did Carter take to show his displeasure with the Soviet presence in Afghanistan? |
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Definition
1. Put an Embargo on grain with the Soviet
2. Boycotted the Moscow Olympics of 1980 |
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Term
| What did Carter do for draft dodgers who fled to Canada? |
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Definition
| Carter unconditionally pardoned all draft dodgers during the Vietnam war in his first day of office |
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Term
| What strategically crucial piece of real estate did the US give up during the Carter administration? |
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Definition
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Term
| What country fell to radical Islamists because Carter did not support the reigning leader? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the essence of Carter’s policy of linkage? |
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Definition
| Carter would not give foreign aid to any country that didn’t uphold human rights. |
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Term
| What group did Carter did Carter initially support in Nicaragua? |
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Definition
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Term
| What international crisis for Carter helped lead to his defeat for re-election and was not resolved until the day Reagan was inaugurated? |
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Definition
| Iranian militant people took over the embassy of Teheran and took a lot of American hostages. The rescue mission failed. |
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Term
| What was the Carter Doctrine? |
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Definition
| The U.S will use military measures in order to protect its national interest in the Persian Gulf. This doctrine was in response to the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan. |
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Term
| After initially supporting one group in Nicaragua, whom did Carter support after that? |
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Definition
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Term
| What embargo did Reagan lift, which was one of Carter’s protests against Soviet invasion of Afghanistan |
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Definition
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Term
| What did the US do in reaction to Nicaragua aiding revolution in El Salvador? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the real name for “Star Wars”? |
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Definition
| Strategic Defense Initiative |
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Term
| What was the single greatest loss of life for them military during the Reagan administration? |
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Definition
| Death of 241 Marines in the terrorist bombing of the barracks in Lebanon |
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Term
| What did the US do to stop a Marxist takeover in Granada? |
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Definition
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Term
| What amendment to a law prohibited the use of funds to overthrow the Nicaragua government? |
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Definition
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Term
| Briefly, what was the Iran-Contra scandal? |
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Definition
| US secretly sold arms to Iran for the release of hostages and the profits went to Nicaraguan Contras |
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Term
| What were two results of the Reagan-Gorbachev summits? |
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Definition
| Reagan refused to give up SDI, but agreed to remove all intermediate range missiles along with Soviet Union in Europe |
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