| A | B |
|---|
| France | the country that controlled Vietnam in the 1800s |
| Diem | leader of S. Vietnam in the early 1960s |
| Marshall Plan | brought aid to help Europe rebuild |
| Mac Arthur | fired during the Korean War |
| Dallas | city where JFK was assassinated |
| 38th | the parallel line that separated North and South Korea |
| Chicago | location of the Democratic National Convention |
| Nakita Khruschev | Soviet leader during the late 50s and early 60s |
| Richard Nixon | 1968 Presidential Winner |
| Ho Chi Minh | North Vietnamese leader |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | Assassin of JFK |
| My Lai Massacre | 1968 massacre of Vietnamese women and children |
| Book Depository Building | Site of Lee Harvey Oswald's fatal shots |
| Earl Warren | leader of the commission exploring JFK's assassination |
| Nov. 22, 1963 | Date of JFK's death |
| Jack Ruby | killed Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Peace Corps | organization where JFK sent young people to thrid world nations |
| Bay of Pigs | where anti-Castro Cubans were killed trying to overthrow Castro |
| Containment | preventing Communism from spreading |
| Sputnik | Russian spacecraft |
| Laika | the Russian cosmomut |
| 1960 | the year of the Nixon-Kennedy debates |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | "Eyeball to Eyeball" |
| Iron Curtain | imaginary line dividing Communism and Democracy |
| satellite nations | countries controlled politically and economically by a more powerful nation |
| U2 | spy plane shot down over the USSR |
| Cold War | indirect conflict that existed between the U.S. and USSR |
| Domino Theory | one country goes, they all go |
| Truman | president during the Korean War |
| McCarthy | senator from Wisconsin that investigated Communism with the government |
| Kent St. University | site where students protestors were killed |
| Bob Hope | entertainer who went to Vietnam to encourage the troops |
| The Berlin Wall | the wall the divided Berlin |
| U.S. Army | group that McCarthy went after, proved to be reckless |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | gave president complete control over the Vietnam War situation |
| TET Offensive | turning point of the Vietnam War |
| Rosenbergs | convicted spies |
| Alger Hiss | government official accused of Communist ties |
| HUAC | committee that investigated un-American activities |
| Warsaw Pact | Communist bloc of nations |
| NATO | alliance of European nations along with the U.S. and Canada |
| Catholic | Religion of Diem and JFK |
| Lyndon Johnson | vice-president of JFK |
| Texas | home state of Johnson |
| poor | relationship between JFK's advisors and LBJ |
| Wisconsin | home state of McCarthy |
