Korea, Vietnam, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Space Race
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- Richard Nixon
- President who removed troops from Vietnam
- Great Leap Forward
- a five-year economic plan that collectivized farms in China and put them into communes
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- event in 1962 in which Kruschev gave WMDs to a country only 90 miles from Florida
- Ho Chi Minh
- communist ruler of North Vietnam
- Dienbienphu
- Decisive victory that ended the French occupation of Vietnam
- Kim Il Sung
- communist ruler of North Korea
- Apollo 11
- America's successful mission to the moon
- Alan Shepard
- first American in space
- Sputnik I
- first satellite to be launched into outer space
- Domino Theory
- stated that if one country fell to communism, all countries would fall eventually
- Fidel Castro
- Dictator of Cuba
- Mao Zedong
- communist ruler of China during Korean and Vietnam wars
- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
- first to walk on the moon
- John F. Kennedy
- President who was assassinated in Texas; involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis
- 17th Parallel
- line of latitude that separated North and South Vietnam
- Geneva Accords
- agreement that divided Vietnam into North and South
- Apollo 13
- America's failed mission to the moon
- Iron Curtain
- term for an invisible political line that divided Europe between Communists and Non-Communists
- Challenger
- spaceship that crashed, tragically killing all aboard
- Red Guard
- Chinese group that tried to destroy everything that was historical in China
- 38th Parallel
- line of latitude that separated North and South Korea
- Yuri Gagarin
- first person in space
- Lyndon Johnson
- President who sent 500,000 troops to Vietnam