Exam Three History Study Guide More Bang for your Buck is associated with Eisenhower which meant that instead of conventional forces like ground troops we would rely on nuclear weapons John Foster Dellis Eisenhower s Secretary of State Operation Ajax placed the shah back on the throne and gave him absolute authority United Fruit was an American Company in Guatemala America decided to have a covert operation to overthrow the potential Communist government when they attempted to sell the land United Fruit was on Nasser was the President of Egypt Eisenhower Doctrine was when we invested money 400 million on the side and gave direct military aid to other countries The New Frontiersmen was JFK and the Whiz Kids JFK new frontiersmen Munich Syndrome stopping dictatorships from arising And this arises from the Kennedy generation The leader of Cuba in the 50 s was Fidel Castro The Bay of Pigs was the invasion of Cuba Operation Mongoose was the second coming of Jesus Christ Involved exploding cigars in an attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro Quarantine During the Cuban missile crisis we had four options We chose to United Nations defined a blockade as an act of war The Black Sunday refers to October 27 promised war A sub also lost communications this day by a U S ship dropping a bomb into the ocean but war was prevented thanks to a mutiny on the ship th when the U2 plane was shot down and Kennedy 1961 was the first meeting between a Soviet leader and an American The Vienna Meeting of 1961 put a ban on nuclear testing Krushkoff wanted the removal of missiles in Turkey The names of the missiles removed from Turkey were the Jupiter missiles The Test Ban Treaty meant that there would be no more atmospheric nuclear tests allowed LBJ Questions Dien Bien Phu was an operating base and it was a major battle that the French lost in Vietnam The president of South Vietnam was Bien The leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Mien The resolution that congress passed that led to more involvement in Vietnam was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution A blank check for LBJ Massive bombing of Vietnam under LBJ was called Rolling Thunder A major North Vietnamese attack on South Vietnam was the Tet Offensive Showed that SV was vulnerable General William Westmoreland replaced a failed general and took over for the Vietnam War The first American in orbit not space was Alan Shepard First American in space was John Glenn First U S satellite was called the Explorer I First man in space not American was Yuri Gugarin The U2 was one of our main spy planes in Vietnam and in the Cold War Sputnik was first man made satellite First U S man space mission was called Mercury Apollo was the U S mission to the moon Nixon Questions New World Order was Nixon s plan of wanting to put America back on top The Nixon Doctrine our allies would fight for themselves and we would basically supply things for them Financial and military equipment strictly Our two main pillars in the middle east were Iran and Israel The Six Day War proved that Israel could hold its own Vietnamization was training the Vietnamese troops so they could hold their own so we wouldn t have to be there Out of Vietnamization came the Nixon Doctrine An important incident in protests during the Vietnam was the shooting of U S students at Kent State When LBJ invited Eisenhower to the white house for advice Eisenhower said Laos was the country that was key to success Strictly for the Ho Chi Min Trail Election of 1968 was close but 1972 was a landslide Nixon tried the campaign of the Christmas Day Bombings to try and force the North Vietnamese to come to peace talk tables Talks held in Paris Henry Kissinger was Nixon s Secretary of State Before that he was the National Security Advisor Consequences of the Vietnam war 58 000 Americans killed Agent Orange and other chemicals affected Vietnamese and Americans coming back home environmental damage cost 100 billion AND Vietnam syndrome The War Powers Act tried to limit the power of the president It gave the president 48 hours to notify Congress before sending troops overseas and if he didn t have support within 60 days the troops had to be brought back Nixon wanted Peace with Honor in Vietnam Nixon bombed Cambodia and North Vietnamese harbors Caused protests e g Kent State The Pentagon Papers enraged Nixon and Kissinger Important information was released and they saw it as a huge deal They set up a unit called the Plumbers Unit to stop the leaking Pax Americana Latin word for peace The Truman Doctrine Monroe Doctrine of the Middle East Ralph Bunch was the first American in the Middle East He started the peace talks in 1948 between Arabs and Israelis Also first African American to win Nobel peace prize The Red Line Agreement drew the borders where British French and U S could look for oil in the Middle East Mossad was the Israeli Intelligence Agency Mohammad Mossadegh was the Prime Minister in Iran The Tripartite Agreement was an agreement between France Britain and the U S It was made to have an arms control in the middle east basically U S wanted the French and British to stop The only place the Eisenhower doctrine worked was in Lebanon Ibn Saud met with Roosevelt on a ship and was the one who started the Saudian relationship The seven sisters the seven oil companies Texaco chevron shell BP Wahhabism was extremism and a literal reading of the Koran Mostly found in the Arabian Peninsula Mr Five Percent Calouste Gulbenkian was the one that drew the Red Line Agreement Harry St John Philby was British and converted to Islam Helped form a relationship with Saudi Arabia for America Charles Crane was from America and was a pro Saudi Arabian businessman The British Mandate consisted of Jordan and Israel 3 Important Agreements The Balfour Declaration promised Jews land in Palestine Sykes Picot had France split the Middle East between them and Britain McMahon Hussein a promise to the Arabs for land Elwood Mead was the Chief Engineer of the Hoover Dam He was also the Tennessee Valley of Authority Wanted to use his expertise from the Hoover Dam to help Jewish immigrants with farming techniques David Ben Gurion was the first Prime Mister of Israel Declared Israel a state U S S Quincy Agreement solidified finalized our relationship with Saudi Arabia Before Nixon people respected the presidency Tarnished the reputation of presidents Jimmy Carter ran as an outsider to Washington D C for his campaign He wasn t respected by other politicians because of
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