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eisenhower Doctrine
Like the Trumen Doctrine but for the middle east -
The Red Scare
A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States with this name -
Yalta Conference
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Cold War time span
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Harry Truman (D)
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Marshall Plan ERP
European Recovery plan -
Truman Doctrine
Gave $400 Million in economic and millitary aid to greece and Turkey -
Berlin Airlift
Stalin cut off supplies in w Berlin -
Nato
North Atlantic Treaty Organization collective Security -
H-Bomb
President Truman made the H-bomb to counteract the soviets Atom Bomb -
Russia's first Atom Bomb
It would only be a matter of months before the U.S.S.R. exploded its own atomic bomb. The Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1 or "First Lightning" (codenamed "Joe-1" by the United States), at Semipalatinsk on -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
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Seato
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization to prevent the Domin Theory -
Nixon's Secret War
Nixon widened the war in Laos and Cambodia by bombing the Ho Chi Minh trail -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam war took place in South Vietnam and the United States chose to help out in trying to stop from Vietnam becoming a Communist country -
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John F. Kennedy (D)
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Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
36th president -
Napalm
Napalm & Agent Orange. Napalm was first used in flamethrowers for U.S. ground troops; they burned down sections of forest and bushes in hopes of eliminating any enemy guerrilla fighters. Later on in the war B-52 Bombers began dropping napalm bombs and other incendiary explosives. -
Election of Richard Nixon
Nixon is elected in 1968 after Johnson decides not to run for re-election, Nixon promises troop with-drawl and to turn war back over to S. Vietnam. This begins the Vietnamization phase of the conflict -
Iron Curtain
the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
