Cold War

The year that the USSR launched Sputnik, the first man-made orbiting satellite

Khrushchev & Kennedy faced off in a near nuclear war over the placement of missiles in

A supply side system, Reaganomics operated on the principle of--

Passed by Congress, it revoked many rights given by the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1940s legislation to give Veterans health care, home & business loans, help with college

If you can be drafted to die for your country, you should be able to vote: so we passed the

Increased military spending and the SDI program are examples of Reagan's strategy of

Richard Nixon's ploy to show that most Americanssupported him vs only a few noisy radicals

An alliance of Western European nations with the US against the spread of communism

An international organization of oil producing countries whose price controls hurt US in 1970s

Carter arranged a treaty between these two nations with the Camp David Accords

The doctrine of containment led to this belief, a significant cause of the Vietnam War

This US president began the process of normalizing relations with China to further detente

In 1975 this city fell to North Vietnamese as US was evacuating people from the embassy roof

Oct. 1962, Kennedy had evidence o/t spread of Soviet nuclear weapons prompting

Congress passed this measure & gave President Johnson the right to fight a war w/o approval

Reagan nominated this woman to be the first woman on the Supreme Court

To protect animals fromextinction as a consequence of economic growth and development. 

US policy of containment began as a result of a long telegram written by 

Nixon, Ford, & Carter all followed this policy towards the USSR- lessening the tensions

Lost the 1980 election because he could neither end the Iran-Hostage crisis nor fix economy, 

Carter's greatest achievement was working out a treaty between these two nations

US broke the USSR's code and intercepted messages (proved Rosenberg's guilt)

The year that US astronauts first walked on the moon

The HUAC and McCarthyism were both agencies of the 1950s

The US fought two wars to prevent  spread of communism to the Southern half of these countries

The year Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated

Stalin denied access to the city in East Germany prompting Truman to prepare for war & initiate

North Vietnamese assault that caught US forces off guard on holiday & began credibility gap

The peace talks at Panmunjom ended this Cold War conflict leaving the nations divided

Scandal could have led to Reagan's impeachment, Oliver North & others violating spirit o/t law

European Recovery Program after World War II.Economic aid by the US 

The Long Telegram prompted containment and the Marshall Plan as key elements of