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President who used the idea of the "Domino Theory" as his reason for supporting South Vietnam
Purpose of this organization was to prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia
What was the very dangerous and reckless foreign policy in which either one or both countries involved are willing to do what ever it takes
What were designed to avoid exposure to harmful fallout from a nuclear blast
The _____ were the American couple executed for passing atomic secretes to the Soviets
The US flew planes into West Berlin to defeat the blockade and this was the _________......
Idea that the whole world could be destroyed with all of these atomic weapons
The USSR launch Sputnik, which was the first artificial satellite to orbit earth and that started the ____ ____
Man that claimed to have a list of communists and made up charges for people
The Berlin Blockade tried to suffocate _____ Berlin by blockading half of the city.
Increased tension between the US and USSR after the USSR exploded its first atomic bomb. Led to both countries developing new weapons like the hydrogen bomb
_____ ____was established in response to NATO and was an organization of communist states in Europe
Citizens and students practiced ____ ____ through bomb drills at school and work, duck and cover videos, (cartoons designed to teach kids how to duck and cover without scaring them )
What was the US policy in "fighting" the Cold War? (Did not eradicate communism - just kept it isolated)
The Eisenhower Doctrine aided the ____ _____ to keep communism out
The Truman Doctrine aided ______ and _____ $400 million to contain communism
After 6 weeks of persistent fighting in the Argonne Forest, the Americans achieved their objective, and on ___________ (at the 11th hour!), Germany agreed to an armistice- a truce; the long war was finally over.
In The Treaty of ___________, Russia withdrew from the war, giving the Central Powers much added land gains such as Latvia and Scandinavia, but more importantly, ensuring that Germany now only had to concentrate their fighting on the western front only.
More than __ million soldiers died and another 21 million were injured in WWI.
To meet the challenges of the war, Congress passed the _______ in May of 1917, imposing a national draft that required every male citizen between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.