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| plan to rebuild europe after the war |
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| secret american program during ww2 to develop an atomic bomb |
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| removing america forces and replacing them with south vietnameze soldiers |
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| revealed that the government officials had lied to congress and american people about the war. |
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| that if one country would fall to communism, its neighbors would too. |
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| a military alliance with its nations in eastern europe |
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| risking war to protect national interests |
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| the us would use force to safeguard independence of any country or group of countries in the middle east |
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| signifigance of monroe doctrin |
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| that no european countries can try to take over anything in the western hemisphere by u.s. or else we will intervene |
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| North atlantic treaty organization alliance with canada, us and western european nations |
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| killing lots of vietnamese soldiers by Americans |
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| golf of tonkin resolution |
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| congressional resolution johnson could take action in vietnam |
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| day of invasion on western europe |
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ww1 battle in which german forces launched a final attack in west.
*largest battle in western europe in ww2 and largest ever fought by us army |
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| brutal march of american filipino prisoners by jap soldiers |
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| 1st naval combat carried out entirely by aircraft (5 day battle) |
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| battle of iwo jima and okinawa |
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iwo jima: bloodiest battle of the war, stuggle for tiny volcanic island near japan
okinawa: equally bloody with iwo jima battle between us and japan |
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that us would have equal access to chinas millions of consumers
john hay asked for it |
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| organization in which nations would join togehter and help ensure security and peace for all members |
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| scenes of international crimes held in german city of nuremburg during ww2 |
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| moving supplies into west berlin by plane |
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giving into a request or demand to avoid confrentation
"make peace through negotiation" |
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an addition to the monroe doctrin
it stated that no european countries were allowed to interfere with latin american affairs |
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| The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. |
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| escaped to southern china and orgaized a civil war |
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imprisioned and killed communists
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| nationalist who sympathized with communist ideas, and also let vietnamese independence movement |
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| was the first president of South Vietnam |
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| arguments in favor of imperialism |
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| we had the duty to christianize everyone, trade would benefit from foreign trade us had to compete with superpowers spread demoncracy |
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| increasing american investments in foreign econemies. to help south asia develop |
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| sigificance of russian revolution of 1917 |
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pulled out of war, causeing us to be pulled into it
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| united nations security council |
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| international peacekeeping orginization only 11 members russia,great britian, french and cina |
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| russian objectives following ww2 |
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| CIA actions in middle east and Latin America in 50's and 60s |
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