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An American researcher and virologist.
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an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives originally created in 1938
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also known as the First War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II.
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Containment was a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
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with the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
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as a state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc
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was an American initiative to aid Europe in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support
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Foudning father of the Peoples repbulic of China, he was also a Chinese Communist revolutionary.
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Was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.
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The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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Judge Irving R. Kaufman accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians.
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The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
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34th president of the US and also a 5 star general in the US army during ww2
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On the east side of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances
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Fought between north vietnam, and was supported by the U.S and other anticomunist allies
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Hippies tried to stop the war by protesting , The term could also be refered to passifism.
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An American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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35th president of the US until his assasination in Dallas in 1961.
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was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. JFK was the president at this time
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Often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States, a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President
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The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
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Authorizing President Johnson to take measures he thought were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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One of the largest military campaings of the vietnam war and was launched on January 30, 1968
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Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end U.S. involvement in the war and expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops
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Master Sergeant of the United States Army Special Forces
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Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth Internation…
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37th president of the US that served from 1996-1974