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Goal 11 Cold War, Civil Rights and Vietnam US History Review Content: Containment of communism the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. Marshall Plan US aid to European countries after WWII Content: During the Cold War of the 1950s and 1960s, threat of possible nuclear attack by the Soviet Union inspired the creation Containment policy Nuclear offensive weapons grew dramatically in quality and quantity during the Cold War. Americans were routinely persecuted because they were suspected of being insufficiently patriotic in the struggle against Communism and, in particular, the Soviet Union. The persecution took various forms, from imprisonment to the purging and blacklisting of untold thousands Content: Bay of Pigs Invasion U.S. under estimates Cuba resistance forces In April 1961 anti- U.S. forces engaged in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, but Cuban forces stop the United States attempt to unseat Castro's government. The alliance for progress was to improve relations with Latin America by strengthening democratic governments and promote social and economic reforms in Latin America. The program, which provided loans and aid from the U.S. and the international financial community, built some schools and hospitals, but was ultimately viewed as a failure. United Nations World Peace keeping organization 5 country member security council Western Europe and North America were locked in a battle with a Soviet regime committed to developing its military might. The allies needed a safety net to repel any form of aggression and to safeguard their freedom. Their solution was the North Atlantic Treaty Content The “Space Race” began in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched the first manmade satellite, Sputnik. The American government and the American people feared that control of space determine the winner in the cold war. The tension created by the cold war, along with the perceived technology gap, led the United States to pour billions of dollars into the development of a space program (NASA). U.S. families respond to the threat of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union as the cold war intensified The purpose of a fallout shelter is to shield the people inside from the harmful effects of radiation Cold War President Harry Truman established the CIA during the Cold War to collect Intelligence information on Communist activities Truman actions proved useful during the Cuban Missile Crisis The only Cold War to turn hot was the Korean war The Korean War was not a war at all it was a US police action to stop the spread of communism in east Asia Creating a problem between Communist China and Capitalist America at the 38th parallel dividing North Korea and South Korea North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin were alleged to have attacked without provocation U.S. destroyers that were reporting intelligence information to South Vietnam. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his advisers decided upon immediate air attacks on North Vietnam The incident gave Johnson the ability to engage in military activity without a congressional declaration of war President Lyndon Baines Johnson used the domino theory to justify early U.S. involvement in Vietnam Asia is where the communist conspirators have decided to make their play for global conquest. If we lose Vietnam, south east Asia will fall to the communist its inevitable. LBJ Détente the policy of general reduction in the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and a thawing of the Cold War that occurred throughout the 1960s Vietnam War inflamed Cold War tensions between the US and China. Content: Doves for Peace - Hawks for War The War Powers Resolution -limits the power of the President of the United States to wage war without the approval of the Congress. Vietnam conflict otherwise known as the living room war (television) was a police action The Vietnam War provoked increasing opposition in America’ largely was responsible for diverting funds from President Lyndon Baines Johnson Great Society Program, which manifested in demonstrations against the Vietnam War at Universities like Kent State in which casualties incurred and students were arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War. LBJ does not seek reelection in 1968 due to Vietnam war and its’ distractions to his Great Society Programs Counterculture refers to the social revolution that swept America in the 1960’s protesting war, the civil rights problems, and poverty, otherwise known as the hippy movement. (Because young people wore their hair long in protest of old values) The Vietnam war led to the counter culture of the 1960’s Young Americans referred to as hippies opposed the bombing of Cambodia, and the US police Action in called the Vietnam war. SALT I, the first series of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, extended from November 1969 to May 1972. During that period the United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments. In a Treaty on the Limitation of AntiBallistic Missile Systems Content Opposition to the Vietnam War The Tet Offensive was the turning point in Vietnam War. The US public had been told that America was winning the war. However, when the VC attacked most of South cities and towns Americans began protesting the Vietnam war until its end. Ho Chi Minh the leader of the Communist North pledged to American forces that the Vietnamese would fight to the last men despite the many causalities' suffered by the