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Assignment:
Answer the following questions:
1. Know what countries were the allied powers and which ones were the Axis during WWII (do not worry about minor countries that had an alliance, only be concerned with the major players).
2. Know how the US got involved in WWII (what was that little event out in the Pacific again?), and when and where it used atomic warfare.
3. Who would you associate with the Red Scare? Who are some major figures outside of say Joe Mccarthy?
4. What was containment and what was rollback and where are these strategies implemented? Who was George Kennan, what strategies would you associate him with?
5. What was the New Look? Who would you associate with it? FDR? Truman? Eisenhower?
6. What governments did the CIA orchestrate coups in?
7. Who are some of the major Civil Rights figures and what organizations do they belong to? (I.E., was MLK Jr a founder of SNCC, the Black Panthers, or some other organization? What about Malcolm X? What organization would you associate him with?)
8. The Vietnam War has several major players-which side is the Viet Cong on? What about the NLF? Who is Ho Chi Minh, what side would you associate him with? And who is this Charlie guy we hear so much about in Vietnam?
9. Who are the major figures we've talked about in the Vietnam antiwar movement?
10. What president would you associate Vietnamization with?