23 And 24 Quiz Flashcards
(19 cards)
Where did general MacArthur launch a brilliant amphibious invasion of North Korea that saved South Korea
Inchon
What 1961 operation against communist Cuba was originally backed by the US but resulted in disaster when aid was withdrawn last minute
Bay of pigs
What did east Germany begin building in 1961 to prevent refugees from escaping to the west
Berlin Wall
What nickname was given to the conservative southern Democrats who joined the states rights party in 1948
Dixiecrats
What term was coined to describe accusations based on lies distortion and innuendo
McCartthyism
What government health insurance program was instituted in 1965 to help elderly people pay their medical expenses
Medicare
What were the procommunist south Vietnamese guerrillas called?
Vietcong
Where did north Vietnamese meet with the US for peace talks
Paris france
What was presidents Nixon’s policy of reducing American forces in Vietnam and increasing the role of the south Vietnamese called?
Vietnamization
At what university were four students killed during a 1970 anti war protest ?
Kent state
What two other southeast Asian nations fell to communism after the fall of south Vietnam
Laos and Cambodia
What was the decision of brown V Board of education of Topeka?
End of school segregation
What the first country in the Western Hemisphere to fall to communism
Cuba
Conservative republican who attacked communism and he was also republican “law and order” campaign?
Richard Nixon
What was belief that the fall of one nation in Southeast Asia to communism will lead to the fall of other nations ?
Domino theory
For which crime was William called court martialed?
Massacring Vietnamese civilians
What was presidents Nixon’s greatest triumph in foreign affairs?
Establishment of relations with communist China
What is the word for the relaxation of US Soviet tensions
Detente
Who was the popular democratic leader murdered in 1968?
Robert Kennedy
