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| - fight friends of Soviet Union |
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- Reagan
- Strategic Defense Initiative never went through
- helped Afgahns
- Grobachev, collapse in 89 |
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- Truman
- 1940's communism takes over China
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| Cuban Missile Crisis **** |
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- Eisenhower
- Ho Chi Minh drives out french
- America joins to stop communism
- Ngo Dinh (catholic, corrupt, mean) Diem leads, America aids
- Kennedy is tough on communism
- Ngo assasinated
- NLF presses
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is blank check for LBJ
- send troops in 1965
- William Westmoreland is LBJ's man
- Tet offensive on news
- unrest at home
- Nixon bank rolls and trains South Vietmanese
- fall of Saigon, pull out |
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- Reagan sent troops to Beirut
- marine barracks bombed |
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- Reagan sent troops
- low cost
- wiped out communist |
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- Gadhafi
- Reagan
- massacres, so quick action |
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- Shah had oil and money
- we supplied him with army
- boiled over into revolution
- Komeini - religious figure
- students hold us hostages for 400 days
- failed rescue makes Carter look bad |
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| Contra/Central America**** |
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- Reagan
- Nicaragua
- collapse of Morning in America
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- goal was to take care of self.
- strong in 30s, mainly republican
- NYE commission
- Neutrality act |
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- Gerald Nye
- saw connections between economics and loans to allies
- US got stuck in war because of finance
- Allies had to win for loans to pay off |
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- laws because of NYE commission
- geared to keep us out of international conflicts
- bans institutions from loaning and selling to countries at war |
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| 40's WW2 transitional period |
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- Europe mess after WWI
- expansion of executive powers
- FDR passes cash and carry
- Lend Lease
- conscription
- Oil embargo
- Pearl Harbor |
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- Truman
- Stalin
- Iron Curtain splits Germany in two
- Marshall Plan - fund democracies
- Truman Doctrine - fight communism, promote democracy |
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