Cold War Vocabulary

This law limited the president's ability to send troops into combat without approval from Congress

• Sedition Act

• War Powers Act

• Stamp Act

• Patriot Act

Conflict in Southeast Asia that led to an escalation of US troops with the hopes of containing Communism

• Chinese Revolution

• Bay of Pigs

• Vietnam War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

Turning point in the war in Vietnam; led to more negative feelings about the war back in US

• Tet Offensive

• Bay of Pigs

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• War Powers Act

Allowed president to conduct military operations in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Domino Theory

• Tet Offensive

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The belief that if one nation fell to Communism, the others around it would as well

• Great Society

• domino theory

• Marshall Plan

• Tet Offensive

13 day standoff between the US and the USSR over nuclear missiles placed near the US

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Tet Offensive

• Korean War

Failed military intervention in Cuba that pushed Castro closer to the USSR

• Korean War

• Tet Offensive

• Battle of Havana Harbor

• Bay of Pigs

President of the USSR during the end of the Cold War; put USSR on the path to a democratic government

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Richard Nixon

• Mao Zedong

• Mikhail Gorbachev