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Contiainment Policy
Was created to prevent the spread of communism. -
Berlin Airlift
American fighter jets would drop foods and goods to the people of Berlin during Berlin's time of crisis to make America look good. -
McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy made people believe there were a lot of people that were communist, but had no actual proof of it. -
Korean War
Korea was split after WWII. North Korea was communist, and South Korea was Anti-Communist -
Jonas Salk
Discovered and developed the first successful Polio vaccine -
Domino Theory
The theory that a political even in one country could carry on thought the rest of the world. -
Rock n' Roll
A type of music popular in the 1940's and 1950's -
Vietnam War
A war to stop the spread of communism for fear of the Domino theory. -
Interstate Highway Act
Gave the federal highway their funding to keep making the highway. -
Sputnik
A satellite that orbited the earth first launched by the U.S.S.R. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A solution to the 2 confrontations America and North Vietnam had -
Tet Offensive 1968
North Vietnam launches an attack even when told to cease fire -
Vietnamization
Nixon pledged to withdraw 150,000 U.S. troops from South Vietnam in the next 12 months -
War Powers Act
Made to ensure that the president wasn't the one making all the decision for the war.
