Group Test (7-11) - And Semester Test
7. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?
8. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
-Berlin Blockade/airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Red Scare/McCarthyism, Space Race, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, End of the Cold War
9. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?
10. How did the Cold War come to an end?
11. Know these major major post-Cold War Events:
-JFK Assassination
-Watergate
-Iran Hostage Crisis
-Persian Gulf War(1991)
-9-11
-War in Afghanistan
-War in Iraq
-Civil Rights Issues(African Americans, Women)
Nixon and Vietnam
- Nixon called for the "vietnamization" of the war- this means we did to pull out of Vietnam and allow the vietnamese people to fight for themselves now
- "Peace with honor" - we want peace to insue and we want honor when we leave so we don't lose
- Gradually pulled US troops out and train the ARVN to take our place in fighting
- He expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia (because he thought he could win this war) leading to college protests (Kent St)
- He expanded it to these two countries because there was a trail that was the North/Vietcong supply line in the jungle so he wanted to bomb it and take out their supplyline; this didn't work, the Vietcong would just go around the areas that were bombed
- January 1973 Nixon announced the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam; 13 days later The Paris Peace Accords were signed which offically ended US involvement in the Vietnam conflict
1. Fighting stopped
2. US would pull out of Vietnam
3. North and South Vietnam would recognize each other's independence
- The Peace agreement didn't last; about a year or so after (1975) the North invaded the South; the south wasn't strong enough and fell through quickly
- The U.S. did not live up to its promise to come to their aid if the North attacked
Jimmy Carter (39th 1977-1981)
Background
- Grew up as a peanut farmer and then a buisness man
- He was in the Navy; WW2 Lt.
- He was govenor of Georgia
- Only US presdient to have recieved the Nobel Peace Prize for after leaving office
- one term president
Accomplishments
- First day of office declared that all americans who fled the country in order to avoid being drafted in the Vietnam war, could come back to the US without consequence
- Known as the grain President; he passed a lot of enviornmental acts and laws such as the setting up an act that made ways to clean places with hazardous waste and set up national parks (in Alaska)
- Stood up a lot for gay rights and had many acts passed that helped them out
- He set up a Peace agreement between Isreal and Egypt. Camp David Accord, this agreement, just brought peace between these two countries Jews vs. Islamics
- Wanted to be a people's presdient; but he realized that it's not easy for that to happen
Elections
- 1st he won against Gerald Ford
- 2nd lost against Ronald Reagan; because he had high inflation and interest rates
- ABC- Anybody But Carter
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