CW Vocab 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 U.S. commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country

• Brinkmanship

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Domino Theory

• Vietnamization

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 practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression.

• Brinkmanship

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Domino Theory

• Vietnamization

the notion that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack such that both the attacker and the defender would be annihilated

• Deterrance

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Vietcong

• Glasnost

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

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Domino Theory

• Deterrence

• Perestroika

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