| A | B |
|---|
| Ngo Dinh Diem | ruthless leader of non-communist South Vietnam |
| guerilla warfare | military action by small group relying on hit & run tactics |
| Viet Cong | guerilla forces who wanted to overthrow the South Vietnamese government |
| hawks | supported the Vietnam War |
| doves | were against the Vietnam War |
| war fought by 2 sides within the same country | civil war, as in North and South Vietnam |
| attack on USS Maddox in Gulf of Tonkin | gave U.S. a reason to get involved in Vietnam War |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | supply route that started in N.Vietnam and went into Cambodia |
| President Richard Nixon | decides to begin withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam |
| collapse of Soviet Union | breaks up into small independent nations,with Russia as the largest |
| July 20, 1969 | U.S. is only country to land man on the moon |
| Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) | deterrent to nuclear war |
| detente | easing of tensions between capitalist and communist nations |
| Star Wars (SDI) | satellites would theoretically use laser beams to destroy launched Soviet missiles |
| Afghanistan | invaded by Soviets in 1979 |
| President Ronald Reagan (elected in 1980) | outspends the Soviets in arms race,helps to end the Cold War |
| visited China in 1972 | President Nixon |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet leader who encouraged glasnost(openness in govt) |
