Cold War

giving economic and military aid in hopes of stopping the spread of communism to Turkey and Greece

• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• NATO
• Monroe Doctrine

Helping Western Europe with economic dispair (if we rebuild them it will help us with trading)

• The Lincoln Plan
• The Marshall Plan
• The Kennedy Plan
• The Roosevelt Plan

Theory that if one country falls to communism, so will others

• Cascade effect
• Butterfly effect
• Snowball effect
• Domino theory

Korea split into south and north after WWII

• - North Korea invades south Korea with China's assistance

• - Cease-fire and DMZ created at the 38th parallel

• Korea War

• American War

• Chinese War

• Soviet War

• communist North and Viet Cong vs Democratic South

• - US supports southern Vietnam but the leader is not well liked

• Ho Chi Minh
• Mao Zedong
• Kim Il-sung
• Vietnam

authorizes Pres. Johnson to escalate the war

• - US uses Napalm and agent orange

• Hiroshima Authorization Act
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Korean War Resolution
• Vietnam War Treaty

Viet Cong surprise attack

• - Kent state shooting turns more people against the war and Nixon

• Tet Offensive
• Kent State shooting
• My Lai Massacre
• Watergate scandal

war at home

• War at home is peaceful and has positive effects on families.
• unpopular and protests emerge

  • - kent state shooting turns more people against the war and nixon

• War at home is like a vacation and brings families closer together.
• War at home is a fun and exciting experience for families.

• - Nixons policy to end the war by withdrawing troops

• - US leaves and the North eventually wins making it a communist country

• - US stays and the South eventually wins the war
• - Nixons policy to escalate the war by sending more troops
• vietnamization

• - Nixons policy to negotiate peace with North Vietnam

Fear of communism in Hollywood. Spies telling soviets about Atomic Bomb

• Red Scare

• Vietmanization

• end of war

• tet offensive