Study Guide: COLD WAR CONTINUED CHAPTER (Review Vid will cover Chapter 25 ONLY)

1. What was the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

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2. How did Nixon want to deal with the “Vietnam” problem early on in his Presidency?
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3. Tet offensive: The good news and the bad news
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4. Know IN ORDER key terms associated with EACH President and their involvement in Vietnam.
a. Example: Eisenhower-rejects Geneva accords and sends $$$ anyway
b. Example: Nixon-Paris Peace Accords
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5. War Powers Act: Know it!!
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6. Reasons for and result of SALT I.
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7. Christmas bombings 72’
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8. After U.S. removal, what became of Vietnam.
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9. Nixon goes to China-lasting significance.
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10. History with the Shah of Iran (Eisenhower – Carter)
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11. Camp David Accords…explain
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12. Mikhail Gorbachev reaction to President Reagan’s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
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13. Iran Contra – KNOW IT!
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14. Why was the U.S. more tolerant of Soviet society after glasnost and perestroika?
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15. Eisenhower and Guatemala