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US History - Unit 11
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26th
Amendment
granted 18 year olds the right to vote in
federal elections
brinkmanship
Practice of attempting to keep the peace
among nations by letting it be known that
one will never back down and is prepared to
go to war.
3.
Cold War
an era of high tension and bitter rivalry
known between the United States and the
Soviet Union following the end of World
War II
4.
containment
U.S. foreign policy after World War II in
which the United States would stop the
expansion of the communism.
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détente
During the Cold War, an attempt to lessen
the tension between the United States and
the Communist powers.
domino
theory
A theory that if one country feel to
communism, other countries in turn would
fall, just like dominoes
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Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution
a Congressional Joint Resolution in 1964,
that authorized the President to do whatever
was necessary in order to assist "any
member of the Southeast Asia Collective
Defense Treaty" and gave President Johnson
the authority to expand the Vietnam War
with a formal declaration of War.
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Iron Curtain
term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to
describe an imaginary line dividing
Communist countries in the Soviet bloc from
countries in Western Europe during the Cold
War
9.
Marshall Plan
U.S. plan in 1947 that offered aid to
European nations if those nations agreed to
remove trade barriers and cooperate
economically with one another
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McCarthyism
the practice of making accusations of
disloyalty, especially of pro-Communist
activity, often unsupported or based on
doubtful evidence; named for the U.S.
Senator that headed the hearing
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NATO
Founded in 1949 as an alliance between the
United States, Canada, and ten Western
European countries
Pentagon
Papers
Published in the New York Times in 1971 the
article revealed the U.S. had deliberately
expanded the war in Vietnam and the
Johnson Administration had systematically
lied, not only to the public but also to
Congress, about the war.
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Second
Red Scare
A time period after World War II in which there
was an increased popular fear of communist
espionage
Southeast
Asia
A region including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia,
Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines,
Thailand, and Vietnam
Tet
Offensive
Massive military offensive by the Viet Cong in
1968 that led the U.S. to rethink their role in
Vietnam and caused public opinion in America to
turn and eventually led to the U.S. withdrawal
from Vietnam
United
Nations
(UN)
An international organization nations pledged to
promote world peace and security, maintain treaty
obligations and the observance of international
law, and cooperate in furthering social progress
formed in 1947.
War
Powers
Act
law that sets a 60 day limit on the Presidential
commitment of U.S. troops to foreign conflicts
Warsaw
Pact
a military treaty and association of Eastern
European countries, formed in 1955 by the Soviet
Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany,
Hungary, Poland, and Romania: East Germany
left in 1990; the remaining members dissolved the
association in 1991