Cold War Review

A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

• Communism

• Fascism

• Capitalism

• Democracy

A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Democracy

• Fascism

North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties.

• Tet Offensive

• Jet Campaign

• New Years Battle

• Tet War

warfare without front lines and with irregular forces operating in the midst of, and often hidden or protected by, civilian populations

• Gorilla Gang

• Ambush Fighting

• Gorilla Combat

• Guerilla War

President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, TX

• Fred Hampton

• John F. Kennedy

• Richard Nixon

• Lyndon B. Johnson

1968 and 1972; Republican; Vietnam: advocated "Vietnamization." Became first and only president to resign

• Richard Nixon

• John F. Kennedy

• Ronald Reagan

• Lyndon B. Johnson

an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security

• NASA

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• NATO

Established by the Truman administration in 1947 to contain Soviet influence to what it was at the end of World War II.

• Tupperware Container

• Detente

• Confrontation Policy

• Containment Policy

Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Blockade

• German Game

• East German Jump

A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.

• Dominos Deepdish

• Berlin Block

• Domino Theory

• Iron Curtain