Cold War Review Part 2

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

• brinkmanship

• eisenhower doctrine

• domino theory

President Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops and their replacement with South Vietnamese forces.

• Vietnamization

• Vietcong

• Brinkmanship

• Domino Theory

South Vietnamese communist who received support from North Vietnam and fought against the government of South Vietnam.

• Vietcong

• Vietnamization

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Napalm

a gasoline based substance used in bombs that U.S. planes dropped in Vietnam in order to burn away jungle and expose Vietcong hideouts.

• Brinkmanship

• Domino Theory

• Napalm

• Vietnamization

the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Vietnamization

program instituted in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s to restructure Soviet economic and political policy

• Napalm

• Brinkmanship

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Perestroika

• the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences

• Napalm

• Vietcong

• Deterrance

• Glasnost

What event secured congressional authorization to for U.S. forces to be involved in Vietnam?

• D-Day

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• 38th Parallel

Agent Orange

• Nickname of a Soviet agent that would always wear orange while on important missions
• Term used to describe the South Vietnamese agents because they 
• A chemical herbicide used to clear out forests and tall grasses
• An intensely burning explosive used to destroy jungle growth

Guerrilla Warfare

• Fighting by small groups using tactics such as the ambush
• Using gorillas to fight against enemy soldiers
• Dressing up as gorillas and fighting while hitting your chest