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Korean "Police Action" Overview Packet
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The students will know: · The impact of the Cold War military establishment on economic growth and prosperity · The reasons for the formation of the Eastern Bloc and NATO · The Truman Doctrine and its impact of the Korean conflict, Greece, Turkey and relations with the Third World · The social reasons for the rise of McCarthyism · The competing plans for containing the spread of communism · The alternatives President Kennedy faced during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Key Vocabulary Truman Doctrine, Eastern Bloc, McCarthyism, Red baiting/scare, HUAC, Cuban Missile Crisis, Containment, Domino Theory, Marshall Plan, 38th Parallel, ICBM, Iron Curtain, Arms Race, Space Race Key Individuals Harry S. Truman, George Kennan, Joseph McCarthy, Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill, Mao Zedong, Ngo Dinh Nhu, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Henry Kissinger, Ho Chi Ming, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, George H. Bush (Sr),
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