A theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a this effect.

A war fought between December 1946 and August 1954 which was a struggle between the Viet Minh and the French for control of the Vietnam. The end result was that North Vietnam became communist while South Vietnam struggled to stay a democracy.

Agreements which took place in Switzerland that temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the Việt Minh, and a southern zone to be governed by the State of Vietnam.

A national independence coalition formed in 1941 who formed to seek independence for Vietnam from the French Empire. After World War II, they opposed the re-occupation of Vietnam by France and later opposed South Vietnam and the United States in the Vietnam War.

The military arm of the National Liberation Front established at the end of 1960, it was created by the North Vietnamese communists to escalate the armed struggle in South Vietnam.

The South Vietnamese Army (SVA), were the ground forces of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, the armed forces of South Vietnam, which existed from 1955 until the Fall of Saigon in 1975.

A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm.

A broad political movement mainly in the 1960's and 1970's who sought to implement a broad range of reforms on issues such as gay rights, abortion, gender roles, drugs, and Vietnam.

A member of a liberal counterculture which was originally a youth movement that started in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1960's and spread to other countries around the world.

A college campus phenomenon inspired first by the struggle for civil rights and later fueled by opposition to the Vietnam War.

A dominant group or elite that holds power or authority in a nation or organization.

A social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause.

The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

A decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools in 1969.

A decision that gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force and the ability to draft soldiers into Southeast Asia.

A strategy during war in which forces do not confront each other in direct combat with the full strength of their teams, but instead aim to wear each other down over a period of time.

One of the herbicides used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

An inflammable liquid used in warfare as an incendiary device against buildings and later primarily as an anti-personnel weapon, as it sticks to skin and causes severe burns when on fire.

The Vietnamese New Year observed during the first several days of the lunar calendar beginning at the second new moon after the winter solstice.

On January 20, 1968 over 80,000 Vietcong troops emerged from their tunnels and attacked nearly every major metropolitan center in South Vietnam in which even American embassy in SAIGON was attacked. Public confidence lost in US government.

A term that came into wide use with journalism, political and public discourse in the United States during the 1960's and 1970's which was used to describe public skepticism about the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's statements and policies on the Vietnam War.

The Vietnam War mass killing of over 450 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968 committed by 26 U.S. Army soldiers in which some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated.

A form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

A situation that occurred at Kent State University which involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970

A policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops

An American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II which was signed by FDR less than two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

A federal law passed in 1973 which intends to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.

The capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the Việt Cộng on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam under the Socialist Republic.

A United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were discovered and demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress."

A law requiring people of a certain age to serve in the military

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

President Johnson Claimed that torpedoes had been fired at American ships near Vietnam

period of the 1950's - 1960's that addressed the unequal treatment of African-Americans and other minority groups

attorney for NAACP successfully argued the Brown v. Board of Ed case and would later become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.

led the 13 month long boycott of public buses, successfully ending the city's segregated bus system

refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, local leaders organized a boycott in protest

Governor of Arkansas that ordered National Guard soldiers to block entrance of nine black students to Central High School, later overruled by President Eisenhower

Governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1975, came to prominence as a staunch segregationist,when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Alabama Governor that blocked two African-American students from attending the University of Alabama

King explained why African-Americans could no longer wait for equality

was leading Black Muslim who believed that equality may require the use of violence to be achieved

gave young African- Americans a greater voice in the civil rights movement; organized sit-in demonstrations in the south

site of bombing which killed four young African-American children and injured many more

The court ruling that "separate-but-equal" was constitutional.

prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, or ethnic origin in public places and in employment

federal program designed to actively recruit minorities for employment

federal law suspended literacy tests where they were used to prevent African-Americans from voting

was a white Christian preacher and outspoken opponent of segregation once paid to bail out Martin Luther King, Jr. out of jail.

led to the federal court ruling that segregation on city buses violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment

name given to the nine black students that attempted to enroll in "all white" Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

organized in 1963 to convince Congress to pass Civil Rights legislation highlighted by famous "I have a Dream Speech" by Martin Luther King , Jr.

group that believed that African-Americans should rely more on themselves by controlling their own communities and businesses

Congress of Racial Equality, used peaceful confrontation to effect social change

southern laws that prevented blacks from sharing public facilities including theaters, beaches, restaurants, water fountains or buses with whites

landmark court case ruled that segregated schools were "inherently unequal" ordered their integration "with all deliberate speed".

court case involving an African-American student entering the University of Texas School of Law, court ruled that he should allowed to attend with white law students.

broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers

began in Greensboro, North Carolina when four students sat at a "whites only" lunch counter.

activists used buses to protest segregation in interstate terminals

belief that if government passed unjust laws people should oppose it with protests, boycotts and other non-violent tactics

forbid states from imposing a poll tax in order to vote in federal elections

organized and fought for migrant farm workers' rights, many of whom were Mexican-American

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded in 1957 by southern ministers fighting for equal rights led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

1964 law that prohibits discrimination based on gender, race, or religion.

Mexican American leader who worked to improve life for migrant farm workers

First appointee of Obama

a 1954 supreme court decision that extended protection against discrimination to Hispanics

strengthens freedom of religion; mandatory school attendance until 16 unless you're Amish

Challenged a racially based legislative reapportionment scheme in Texas. Did not allow reapportionment that would racially segregate districts that would cause discrimination against racial or ethnic groups.

(1973) legalized abortion on the basis of a woman's right to privacy

States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race.

brought higher education for African Americans

Founder of the NAACP and pushed for African American rights

An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property.

The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread it's influence - especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s to early 1950s.

A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.

A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the countries in Western Europe.

A U.S. policy, announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.

The program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II.

A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.

Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States that support each other if attacked.

A Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites.

The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communist in the early 1950s.

Latitude line/boundary between North and South Korea.

35th President of the United States. Was in office during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall.

Communist dictator of Cuba who came into power in 1959.

Failed CIA operation in April 1961to overthrow Castro and take over Cuba using Cuban exiles.

13 Day period in October 1962 when Soviet nuclear missile were pointed at the United States in Cuba and the US had a naval blockade of Cuba.

A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961-1989, built by Communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West.

A conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950-1953, in which the United States along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans while China fought on the side of the North Koreans to contain Communism.

Asian nation that turns to Communism in 1949 after the Mao Zedong comes into power and fights with the North in the Korean War.

Soviet leader following World War II, dies in the middle of the Korean War in 1953.

33rd President of the United States. He fired General Douglass MacArthur over disagreements on the Korean War.

Communist leader of China who comes into power in 1949.

Married couple who become the first U.S. citizens put to death for espionage in 1953. They were charged with passing Atomic Bomb secrets to the Soviets.

A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II.

Soviet leader from 1955-1964, responsible for putting missiles in Cuba.

The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control

Line of latitude that separated North and South Vietnam

Communist leader of North Vietnam, led the fight against the French and then the Americans to reunify the country

Became president after Kennedy's assassination and reelected in 1964; committed the US more heavily to fighting in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

result of the Korean War

where most protests of the Vietnam War occurred

result of the Vietnam War

scandal involving President Nixon forcing him to resign

Nixon's policy of training South Vietnamese troops to fight so we could leave the war

tactic used by the North Vietnamese to fight the war

quote by Reagan during the war

causes for the Soviet Union collapse

Soviet policy meaning openness

Soviet term meaning Economic restructuring

Clinton

Foreign Policy under George H W Bush

1st Persian gulf war

cause of 1st Gulf War

lifted sanctions against South Africa, full relationship with Vietnam, signed NAFTA (North American Free Trade)

9-11, war in Iraq, War in Afghanistan

legal surveillance of citizens after 9-11

Republicans win Congressional seats during Clinton term with Contract with America

Congress and the President set taxes and spending policy based on GDP, unemployment and inflation

Federal reserve policy on interest rates

tax cuts, increased military spending, appoint justices with judicial restraint, reduce government programs

The world's first space satellite launched by the Soviet Union starting the space race

law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations

30 million war babies were born between 1942 and 1950.

residential neighborhoods outside of downtown areas

name for the popular form of music that teens were listening to in the 1950s.

In the 1950s, a person who criticized American society as apathetic and conformist

Kennedy's agenda to increase aid to education, health insurance, to elderly, etc.

An economic system based on private ownership of capital

U.S. government official accused of being a communist spy and convicted of perjury

a competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments

Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict

Germany, Italy, Japan

Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.

Germany invaded, breaking their agreement, so Britain and France declared war, starting World War II

German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945), Nazi leader and founder; had over 6 million Jews assassinated during the Holocaust

Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945)

Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition

Is the name given to the air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF).

7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200 aircraft. American losses were 3000, Japanese losses less than 100. In response, the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany, entering World War II.

The war in the Pacific, most islands were involved, Japan tried to take these islands and sent 65 bombing raids all the way to Australia.

The Holocaust took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945. Six million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaberators. Miliions of non-Jews, including Roma and Sinti(Gypsies), Serbs, political dissidents, people with disabilities, homosexuals and Jehova's Witnesses, were also persecuted by the Nazis.

Japanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Aug 8th, 1945.

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

(FDR) , June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day's end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy.

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President of fear for the nation's security.

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

Led the allied invasion of North Africa and planned and executed the D-Day invasion at Normandy and the battle of the budge; Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany for the purpose of killing prisoners immediately.

a device or system consisting usually of a synchronized radio transmitter and receiver that emits radio waves and processes their reflections for display and is used especially for detecting and locating objects (as aircraft) or surface features (as of a planet)

- 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II

AFTER its defeat in World War II, Germany was divided into four zones under the control of the United States, Britain, France and the former Soviet Union. The division, nevertheless, was provisional

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict.

American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II.

The commander of the United States Navy in the Pacific.

Army Chief of Staff General who pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Also created the Marshall plan for rebuilding Europe.

Famous American General who fought in North Africa and Europe.

Citizens planted gardens to make their own vegetables to conserve more food for the troops

All African American air squadron that will distinguish themselves in combat during WWII

American pilots who volunteered to fight for China

young Navajo men who transmitted secret communications on the battlefields of World War II

a work written about an event by someone who is one or more steps removed from the event

A national policy of avoiding/ abstaining involvement in world affairs

worst period of economic decline in United States history, beginning in 1929-1933 ending with US entry into WWII.

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.

restricting the amount of an item an individual can have due to a limited supply

worked in factories while men fought, provided supplies, dangerous work

organization founded in 1945 to promote peace

President of the US during Great Depression and World War II