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Cold War - Zoey Hix - Coggle Diagram
Cold War - Zoey Hix
Vietnam War
After WWII, Vietnam was split into North and South
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Antiwar protests surged going into the 1970s. People were unhappy with things like the draft, the bombings in Cambodia, the Pentagon Papers, etc.
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US Troops in Vietnam 
US troop involvement increases in 1964 because of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (U.S. ship was allegedly attacked.)
U.S troop numbers plateau in 1968 after the Tet Offensive (Viet Cong launch large attack against U.S.) and it becomes clear that we are not winning the war.
"Although the Communists failed to establish lasting control of any place, the Tet Offensive marked a turning point in the Vietnam. Before the Tet Offensive, American leaders had claimed that the war was progressing smoothly. After Tet, however, the U.S government had to admit publicly that the war was not going well."
1970s Pentagon papers show the public that they have been mislead by the U.S. government on it's intentions and involvement in Vietnam.
Vietnamization: the process of getting south Vietnam to take more control of the war, while the U.S would withdraw its own troops.
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Soviets Vs. Americans
Soviets = Communists
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Warsaw Pack: the organization of Communists nations in Eastern Europe. This is he Communists version of NATO
Americans= Non Communists
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Domino Therory: "The U.S government operated on the theory that if one country became communist, this could influence its neighbors to become communist. This was called the coming theory because it pictured a series of countries "falling" to communism one by one, knocking each other over as if they were a line of dominos."
Containment: "The idea of containment was to not challenge communism where it already existed but to prevent its spread."
Marshall Plan: The U.S pledges financial support (13 billion dollars) to Western European countries to make them stay capitalist, and not communist.
Truman Doctrine: pledged that the U.S would fight the spread of Communism worldwide (Turkey and Greece.)
Nuclear Arms Race
The competition to make the most powerful, most technologically advanced, and the most in quantity of nuclear weapons
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Atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, nuclear bomb, ICMB
Red Scare
In the 1950's when there was a large focus on finding Communist supporters in American society and govenrment
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Space Race
The competition to see which country was the most technologically advanced by sending a satellite and a human into space/ the moon
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviets set up a missile launch site in communist Cuba. This is problematic because Cuba is so close to the U.S and an ICBM can reach us from there.
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Korean War
At the end of WWII, the Japanese controlled Korean peninsula was split in half.
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