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No european recolonization in latin america, any would be consisdered a direct attack to us
Monroe Doctrine
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U.S. wll pay debts of the latin american countries, no reasons for europeans to interfere
Roosevelt Corollary
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Taking advantage of stories to get people to think in your favor
Yellow Journalism
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his idea to build up navy
Alfred Mahan
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Explosion of this U.S. ship killed 100s of Americans. Start of "A splendid little war".
The Maine
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U.S. had equal access to china's millions of consumers
Open door policy
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withdrew troops from cuba
platt amendment
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necessary to build so U.S. could travel through
panama canal
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maintaing orderly societies abroad by increasing u.s. investment in foreign economics
dollar diplomacy
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control over another country
Imperialism
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policy involved aggressively building up a nations armed forces in preparation for war
-military gained moe authority
militarism
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readying the troops
mobilization
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U-boat changed the rules of naval warfare
submarine warfare
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Civilian cuise liner sunk by German U-boats
-carrying brittish war goods
Lusitania
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Pres. who wanted to keep U.S. out of ww1
Woodrow Wilson
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a secret offer to mexico from germany intercepted by the british
Zimmerman note
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convoy
consisted of groups of unarmed ships surronded by a ring of destroyers, two pedo boats and other armed naval vessels
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recommended U.S. focus more on air force then navy
Billy Mitchell
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U.S., England, and russia to workout future of germany, and poland
-disputes over polands gov
Yalta Conference
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Unconditional surender announced; Truman got word Abomb successfully tested
The Potsdam conference
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represented communist domination and oppression
Iron Curtain
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soviet agency by stalin
cominform
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america's foriegn policy after ww2 w/ comuninism
containment
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assumes every nation wants democracy, guided u.s. into cold war
the truman doctrine
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S.U. foriegn policy to protect communism
the brezhev doctrine
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a program of economic recovery from ww1
marshall plan
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berlin airlift
moved supplies into west berlin by plane
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NATO
north atlantic treaty organization
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collective security
idea of mutual millitary assistance
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warsaw pact
- soviet unions responce
- -a military alliance w/ its satellite nations
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federal civil defence administation
gave info on how to survive a nuclear attck
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38th parallel
dividing line of the koreas
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douglas MacCarther
- a hero of 2 ww / anti communist
- fired for insubordination
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Joseph Mccarthy
sentator of WI accused 205 people of being communist
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Suez crises of 1956
Eygpt seized British canal, After aid cut off
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Gamal Abdel Nassar
an eygption ruler at time of suez canal crises
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The rio pact
a regional defence allince with 18 other ntions n the wetern hemisphere
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Brinkmanship
prepared to risk war to protect its national interests
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
- April 17th, total disaster
- US failed in invading cuba
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Deferment
- official postponement of their call to serve.
- offered to college students.
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President Johnson's War
"You see, the communists will rule the world , and if we don't step up to them they will do it."
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Pentagon Papers
Articles based on a classified govt study of u.s. involvement in the vietnam war
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Agent Orange
- Killed the leaves in the jungle.
- -elephant grass tall with razor sharp edges
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Walker Cronkite
- CBS news reporter
- "To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion."
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Selective Service System
college students who ranked low could be drafted.
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General William C. Westmoreland
"I do not see now the enemy can long sustain [his] heave losses."
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Geneva Conference
A conference when vietnam divided into two seperate nations.
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My Lai Massacre
all prisoners killed - ordered by lieutenant William l. Calley Jr.
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Ngo Dinh Diem
- South Vietnam leader
- -Put in place by U.S.
- Lacked support
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Richard Nixon
- elected in 1968
- reduced amount of troops in Vietnam
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General Earie G Wheeler
"...We are winning the war in vietnam but Hanoi is still not ready to give up."
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Ohio's Kent state University, 1970
Campus violence, National Guard opened fired on school protestors, four killed.
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Democratic Society (SDS)
- declaration of Huron Statement.
- Principles and goals.
- Mostly written by Tom Hayden
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Saturation Bombing
- raids drop 1000s of tons of explosives over large areas
- -destroyed North Vietnam
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The Free Speech Movement
- Students fought for free speech arrested
- Strikes- stopped attending classes.
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Robert McNamara
- Kennedy's closet advisor
- -helped shape policies that drew U.S. deeper into war
- "More training wouldn't strengthen them' therefore we should get out."
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Vietnimisation
term for when Nixon removed troops from vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
a supply route that passed through Loas and Cambodia
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Wall Street Journal
"We think the american people should be getting ready to accept... the prospect that the whole vietnam effort may be doomed."
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Napalm
a destructive Jelly-like "fire bomb"
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Alain Enthoven
- Sect. of Defense
- "A new strategy must be sought."
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Tom Hayden
- Mostly wrote the declaration of Huron Statement
- "We are people of this generation we seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation."
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Clark Clifford
- credited for the turn about in johnson's policies
- suggested Johnson meet with "wise-men"
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The Viet Cong
- name given by Diem
- -Communist guerillas in the South
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New Left
- New political movement,
- Believed problems such as poverty and racism called for radical changes.
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The teach in movement
teach a special night session in which issues concerning the war could be aired
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Conscientious objectors
people who refused to be drafted in first half of 1960s
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
gave president control over what U.S. did in vietnam
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Eddie Adams
took photo of suspected viet-cong member being executed by S.V. national police chief
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The tet offensive
- Surprise attacks by N.V. and V.C. on major cities and towns. On a vietnam holiday. U.S. barely won
- Major turning point
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Harry C. McPherson
"Fed up with light at the end of the tunnel"
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