Significance of Vietnam: Longest war in History, U.S. won tactical military victories but lost the strategic war, War opened a deep political divide in American SocietyFirst Indochina War: Struggle between Viet Minh and French of who was going to control the country, viet led my Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam gained advanced in pushing the French out of the country and once the French were defeated the Geneva Accords were signed and the French left their colonies in Indochina, also it split Vietnam in Half between North and South2nd Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy, Bay of pigs: U.S. Trying to overthrow Castrofailed because Castro knew that he was under constant threat of U.S. invasion, Nukes, Kennedy claimed that this was a great political victory, most intense momentof the civil warWatergate: during Nixons campaign 5 men broke into the Watergate hotel and stole documents along with planted listening devices that were found by a security guard but no one was arrestedSecurity and exchange commission: Reform to regulate and prevent abuse to the stock market, raised margin range, regulated all stock marketsYalta conference: Churchhill, Stalin, Roosevelt were leaders in this, U.S. would help any non-communism nation stop the spread of soviet union and communism, first time U.S. openly restricted the Soviet Union and it led to the Marshall Plan and NatoMarshall Plan: U.S. helped 16 nations come back from all the destruction of WW2Nato: North Atlantic Treaty organization: 12 western nations that would get together and form a defense if anything tried to break off, alliance to prevent warBonus Army: Vets from Vietnam war went to DC to demand they get their bonuses now instead of later and Hoover was worried about this because the men were sleeping in the streets and scaring others so he send Douglas Macarthur to take care of this and used too much force but drove them out of DCCauses of depression: too much production and not enough purchasing, unemployment too high, more widgets, farm depressionBalanced budget: one that income and outgoes are pretty closeFederal Gov. policy: Depression and panics are not the governments businessCivilian conservation crops: provides relief by giving men jobs to help do things around the town1st new deal: relief, reform, recovery, softened depression but didn’t end it2nd new deal: focus more on reform Tennessee Valley Authority: rebuild the lower parts of the economy and it would boost the whole economy so they gave men jobs building damsCoughlin’s plan: Nationalize banksLong’s Plan: end depression and redistribute wealthTownsend’s plan: Help the elderly and give them $200 a month and if they spent it they would get the same the next month and plus it would money into the economyWork’s project administration: provided jobs for those that needed it, put money into the economyTripe A: farmers were being paid to cut production (scandal)Teapot dome: was a dome that had petroleum under it and was suppose to be saved for the navy when they needed it and the secretary of interior (Albert Fall) was suppose to protect it but instead he let companies make profit off of it and he went to jail because it leaked out to the newspapersRed scare: sudden panic among Americans about the danger of political foreigners and radicals, violent labor strikes, radicals trying to overthrow the governmentSacco and Vanzetti: 2 radicals accused of bank roll robbery and were both found guilty and executed but later on this was re looked at and found that Vanzetti was actually not guilty but Sacco probably wasScope’s trial: Tennessee school teacher that taught evolution in school and Tennessee was very against that so 2 big lawyers Bryan and Darrow took the case and Scopes was found guilty but he later on repealed the case and wonCrash: happens quicklyDepression: happens over a long period of timeTariff policy: putting a high tariff on foreign goods but Europe did the same thing back so American producers didn’t make muchDomino Theory in the cold war: once one nation turned into communism the next nation would tooPearl harbor: Japanese attacked Americans and the only reason the Americans recovered so quickly is because the Japanese didn’t mess with their petroleum tanksor get their air craftsMao- Tse- Tung: the actual China when at first they though Kai-Shek was the real china Berlin Aircraft: bringing supplies to Berlin by many aircrafts in a supply line and the British helped too, successfulBattle of The bulge: Ardennes, Germans advanced forward 70 miles and it was in theshape of a buldge, Americans allowed Soviet Union to capture Berlin because they had already lost a lot of menWW2: German Nazi invasion of Poland to take over, French and British declared waron Germans, Japanese had brought America into it because of the attack on pearl harbor meant to cripple the navyNgo Dinh Diem: Republic of South Vietnam, criticized but was the only was able to keep things together, Eisenhower supported him but was assassinated eventually byKennedy AdministrationThird International: Organization created in the Soviet Union that was used to help prevent communism around the WorldCauses of the crash: buying on Margin, Thought economy was stronger when it wasn’t, wild speculation that the price of stock would go upNRA: meant to help recovery stand point, fewer jobs but Labor unions still had section 7A so companies wouldn’t interfere with their thingsNational liberation front: Political vs. Military actions based off of Mao, Start of 2nd Indochina warDien Bien Phu: French defeat led to Geneva conference, Vietnam surround the French and the French surrendersWar under Johnson: U.S. strategy of graduated response search and destroy, international relations, war at it’s peak, focused more on domestic