Can you define “missile gap”? What does Kennedy mean by “flexible response”?
What actions by Castro forced an economic embargo by the United States? How did the boycott push Castro into the orbit of the Soviet Union?
Identify why the Bay of Pigs invasion failed.
What events were part of the Cuban Missile Crisis? What were the results?
How did the Viet Minh help the US during WW II?
How did the Communist victory in China and the Korean War affect US thinking on containment in the rest of Asia?
Identify the Eisenhower administrations options to help the French at Dien Bien Phu.
Identify the provisions of the Geneva Accords.
What were the recommendations made in the Taylor-Rostow report?
Identify the problems that led to Ngo Dinh Diem’s removal from president of South Vietnam.
Why did Lyndon Johnson push the US into a large-scale intervention in South Vietnam?
How did the Tonkin Gulf Resolution give LBJ the power to fight the war anyway he wanted?
How did the NLF and VC even the odds against the US and South Vietnam forces?
Why was the Department of State bereft of Vietnam experts?
Identify the claims made by General Westmoreland in his PR tour of November 1967.
What was the Tet offensive? Why is the offensive so significant in the war?
TERMS: Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Operation 34A, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Operation Rolling Thunder, Ho Chi Minh Trail
NIXON
What were the aspects of Nixon’s Grand Design?
What issues for the Soviets made them more open to Nixon’s detente?
What is the Nixon Doctrine? What is its effect on arms sales? How does the doctrine destabilize parts of the world?
Explain why Nixon "Vietnamized" the war.
Why did Nixon feel the need to bomb and invade Cambodia? What was American reaction? What happened in Cambodia as a result?
Identify the provisions of the Paris Peace Treaty (1973)
What role did Watergate play in ending US involvement in Vietnam?
How did Congress strip support from South Vietnam?
TERMS: Khmer Rouge, Henry Kissinger, Leonid Brezhnev, SALT I
Identify the cause of Nixon’s paranoia over information leaks.
Explain why the burglars were in the Watergate complex.
Explain how and why the "cover-up" began in the Watergate scandals.
Why did Nixon tape conversations in the White House, when were these tapes discovered, and what crucial role did these tapes play in the Watergate scandals?
What three articles of impeachment were approved by the House Judiciary Committee?
TERMS: Pentagon Papers, “plumbers”, James W. McCord, “Saturday Night Massacre”
ME FIRST
What changes in the work atmosphere can be traced to this period?
What event began the Oprah-ization of America?
Identify the problems surrounding education. Where did the Wirtz Committee put the blame?
Who were the winners and losers in the Third Great Awakening?
What were the changes in the goals of feminists?
TERMS: Apocalypse Literature, Paul Ehrlich, Gaetan Dugas
What are the roots of the inflation crisis? Why did the Kennedy administration accept inflation? What circumstances began driving inflation upwards?
Why did LBJ refuse to “cool” the economy?
What was Nixon’s response to the recession started by Arthur Burns? Why was Phase II a failure? What errors did governments make in trying to deal with the 1973 oil shock?
What events led to the OPEC oil embargo in 1973? What were the reactions in the US to the embargo?
What are some examples of how OPEC flexed its power in foreign affairs?
TERMS: stagflation
VERY FOREIGN POLICY
What gains were made by the Soviet Union in the 1970s led to the collapse of détente?
What caused the Iranian Revolution? What actions prevented Iran’s Islamic government from cooperating with the United States?
What was the crisis in Iran? What were Iran’s demands? How did Carter react? Why did Iran’s leaders allow the crisis to continue?
What events led to Iran’s willingness to negotiate? What were the terms of the Algerian Accords?
How did the PDPA alienate the Afghani Islamic population and spark a revolt?
How and why did the Soviet Union get involved in the Afghani Civil War?
How were funds passed to Afghani mujahideen?
Who are the Afghan Arabs?
What was the purpose of US involvement in Afghanistan?
TERMS: Ahmed Shah Massoud
REAGAN
What were the basic tenets of Reagan’s foreign policy?
Identify the changes Reagan made in dealing with Nicaragua.
How does the situation in Nicaragua lead to the Iran-Contra Affair?
Identify the two names and characteristics of Gorbachev’s proposed changes for the Soviet Union.
TERMS: Ayatollah Khomeini, Contras, Boland Amendment, Palestine Liberation Organization, William Casey