💻 Unit 9 1960s & Vietnam War Notes pt.4

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Match the following

• Sputnik

• Bay of Pigs

• Domino Theory

• Naval Blockade

• Cuban Missile Crisis

First satellite launched into orbit

Failed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro

If one country falls to communism, all the border nations may fall

A quarantine placed around Cuba October 1962

The closest the US has come to nuclear war..so far

• First satellite launched into orbit

• Failed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro

• If one country falls to communism, all the border nations may fall

• A quarantine placed around Cuba October 1962

• The closest the US has come to nuclear war..so far

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New weapons like ​​

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, a sticky gasoline-based jelly that burns, inflicted harm on the Vietnamese, while herbicides like ​​

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destroyed the jungle cover used by the Vietcong to hide.

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Operation Rolling Thunder was

• North Vietnamese strike on the Tet Holiday

• an American bombing campaign against military targets in North Vietnam

• a joint French-Chinese attack on Laos to weaken North Vietnam

• the Vietcong attack on Saigon

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in recognition of the actions described below the image, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez was--

• given an early honorable discharge from United States military service

• awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor

• made an honorary member of the United Nations

• awarded the Legion of Honor ribbon