Vocab/dudes

dudes of unit 6

• Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Attended the 45 drafts of the UN. Spoke for the rights of women & people of color worldwide

• Fidel Castro

• the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964

• Mary Mcleod Bethune

• Authorized the bombing of Japan and laid the ground work to repair Europe after the war

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Thought countries should be able to request US economic assistance/aid if it was being threatened.

• Harry S Truman

Match the following

• Youngest elected President. Led America during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• Lyndon B Johnson [LBJ]

• Almost impeached due to the Watergate. Met with communist leaders to attempt trade & arms treaties.

• Richard Nixon

• VP, became president after Assassination. Got congress to pass economic relief programs

• John F Kennedy [JFK]

​ (a)   was an African-American educator, a pioneer leader of the civil rights movement, founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Brevard County, Florida.

​ (b)   were a subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era..

​ (c)   was the head of the second red scare, the public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion

• Harry T Moore
• The Beats
• Joseph "Joe" McCarthy
• Fidel Castro
• The Boomers

South or North Korea?

They made the first move in the war and invaded the other section of Korea.

Not backed by the UN by the Soviet union. 

Pro-communism, still isolated today 

South or North Korea?

Was attached first by the other side.

backed by the UN NOT by the Soviet union. 

Anti-communist today

True or False 

Cuba was aligned with the Soviet Union because both of them wanted to have nuclear weapons and follow Communism ideals. 

• TRUE

• FALSE

Khrushchev placed Soviet Union Nuclear Missiles in Cuba.

• True

• False

Doctrine

• US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist 

• Kennedy

• support for the containment of Communism and reversal of Communist progress focus on Latin America

• Truman

•  check increased Soviet influence in Middle East, with focus on stopping communist

• Eisenhower

Define Baby boom and boomers

​ (a)   was controlled by the Soviet Union and was communist.

​ (b)   Was controlled by America and the UN.

• East Berlin
• West Berlin
• North Korea
• South Korea