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- 4. Promised "peace with honor" in getting out of Vietnam; "not a crook"
- 9. The US Declared war on this after 9/11
- 11. The Japanese absolutely ravaged (or "Raped") this Chinese city in their Imperial Expansion
- 12. The Nation invaded by Germany, starting World War 2
- 13. Term used to describe Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand)
- 14. The sinking of this ship by German U-Boats was a precursor to the US entering WWI
- 16. This is both a location and a Resolution - US Ships were attacked there, and LBJ used the attack to expand presidential warmaking powers
- 19. This was the US policy to stop Communism from spreading
- 20. This physical division of the German capitol was a symbol of the Cold War, and it's fall in 1991 a symbol of the end of the Cold War
- 21. This Asian Peninsula saw the first large-scale Cold War combat, in a war that has technically never ended.
- 24. This precedent-setting president promoted neutrality
- 27. This president's Doctrine claimed the Western Hempisphere as the US Sphere of influence
- 30. This Central European nation was our enemy in both WWI and WW2
- 31. The Leader of Soviet Russia during WW2 and the beginning of the Cold War
- 32. During the Cold War we supported various dictators and authoritarians because they were this (hint: against what we were against)
- 33. This Telegram from the Germans during WWI propelled the US into WWI
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- 1. This European power had colonized Indochina until the Vietnamese forced them to leave
- 2. Germany promised this nation it would recover land lost to the US in the 1840s if they joined the Central Powers in WWI
- 3. Those who supported getting involved in World War 2
- 5. The Soviet response to a United Western Europe, their own group of nations allied with the USSR
- 6. This Vietnamese Offensive occured on their New Year, and shares the name
- 7. President who sent "advisors" to Vietnam until he was assassinated
- 8. This Theory posited that if one nation fell to communism, surrounding nations would also fall
- 10. This natural resource was key to Japanese expansion, and the rise of the Middle East as a world power in the 1960s
- 15. This Russian City spelled doom for the Nazis, as the winter and stiff Russian resistance stopped them cold.
- 17. When you don't choose a side, like Washington suggested we be.
- 18. The Anti-Soviet group of nations, sworn to defend each other if attacked; still around today.
- 19. Soviet Missiles on this island, just south of Florida, saw the two nations nearly go to nuclear war.
- 22. Before US entry to the war, this is how we let European nations "borrow" weapons to fight the Fascists
- 23. Those who wanted to stay out of WWII were called this, wanting to keep out of world affairs
- 25. He was the North Vietnamese leader during the Vietnam War
- 26. FDR's VP, this President dropped the bombs on Japan and laid out the policy of "Containment"
- 28. During the Cold War, this was our main enemy
- 29. President who "escalated" Vietnam, costing him the presidency in 1968