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Post WW2 Vietnam Cuban Missile

Vietnam 2 Current news

Korea and at home

A 100

The final agreement at Yalta concerning the future of Germany was that Germany would be:

A) reconstructed and reunited but would remain under strict supervision of the Allies B) divided into four zones based on the position of troops at the end of the war C) divided in half, with East Germany controlled by the Soviets and West Germany controlled by the United States D) allowed to hold a binding vote regarding its preference of either capitalism or communism

B) divided into four zones based on the position of troops at the end of the war

A 100

When Harry Truman assumed the Presidency after Franklin Roosevelt’s death, he believed that

A) Roosevelt had kept him well informed on international issues

B) Stalin and the Soviet Union were fundamentally untrustworthy

C) Stalin was essentially a good man who could be reasoned with

D) the Soviet Union was a backward nation that posed no threat to the United States

A 200

Stalin and the Soviet Union were fundamentally

untrustworthy

A 200

The Economic Cooperation Administration was also known as the

A) Truman Doctrine B) United Nations C) Marshall Plan D) North Atlantic Treaty Organization

A 300

C) Marshall Plan

A 300

What is containment?

A 400

The policy of containing communism to a certain area

or region.

A 400

Over the years, some historians have argued that the Cold War was the result of

A) Soviet communist expansionism B) American capitalist expansionism C) ignorance and misconception on the part of both the Soviets and the Americans D) Soviet paranoia about the intentions of the West E) all of the above answers

 

A 500

E) All of the above

A 500

The Korean War began when A) Japanese forces invaded South Korea B) North Korean forces invaded South Korea C) Soviet troops invaded South Korea D) Chinese troops invaded South Korea E) Vietnamese forces invaded South Korea  

B 100

B) North Korean forces invaded South Korea

B 100

President Truman relieved Douglas MacArthur from command because MacArthur

A) failed to stabilize the front in Korea B) ordered the bombing of communist forces massing north of the Chinese border C) publicly indicated his dissatisfaction with Truman’s policy on Korea D) invaded North Korea despite Truman’s orders to halt at the 38th parallel

B 200

C) publicly indicated his dissatisfaction with Truman’s policy on Korea

B 200

The Korean War resulted in all of the following developments EXCEPT

A) a boost to American economic growth at a point when many believed it was about to decline B) an increased confidence in America’s position as a world power dedicated to stopping the spread of communism C) the creation of the office of Defense Mobilization to fight inflation, hold down prices, and discourage union wage demands D) a military stalemate that dragged on until 1953

B 300

B) an increased confidence in America’s position as a world power dedicated to stopping the spread

of communism

B 300

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, accused of transferring atomic secrets to the Soviets, were

A) convicted and deported to the Soviet Union B) convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment C) convicted, sentenced to death, and executed, despite two years of appeals and public protests D) convicted and sentenced to death, but released after two years of appeals and public protests

B 400

C) convicted, sentenced to death, and executed, despite two years of appeals and

public protests

B 400

The nation’s most prominent leader of the crusade against domestic subversion was

A) J. Edgar Hoover B) Whittaker Chambers C) Joseph McCarthy D) Richard M. Nixon

B 500

C) Joseph McCarthy

B 500

Kennedy decided to remove Diem from the presidency of South Vietnam when

A) Diem massacred a large number of Viet Cong B) Diem launched attacks on the country’s Buddhists C) Diem refused to allow American soldiers to engage in combat D) Diem had his own brother shot for treason E) Diem announced he would no longer accept American aid

 

C 100

B) Diem launched attacks on the country’s Buddhists

C 100

The American commitment in Vietnam increased substantially when A) President Eisenhower sent military forces

into combat to aid Diem B) President Johnson asked for and Congress

approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution C) President Nixon initiated “Vietnamization” D) President Kennedy sent the Special Forces

into Vietnam E) President Truman ordered an attack of

North Vietnam

C 200

B) President Johnson asked for and Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

C 200

Escalation of the Vietnam War in the 1960s included all of the following steps EXCEPTA) American officials began governing the

country in place of the Vietnamese B) American soldiers began playing an active

combat role C) American planes began bombing targets in

North Vietnam D) American forces began increasing rapidly

in number

C 300

A) American officials began governing the country in place of the Vietnamese

C 300

DAILY DOUBLE

C 400

DAILY DOUBLE

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One of the primary reasons that the United States could not fully win the Vietnam War was A) the United States employed conventional

warfare techniques in an unconventional war

B) American military forces were inexperienced and understaffed

C) Congress would not allocate sufficient funds to finance the war

D) the United States refused to bomb North Vietnam C 400

A) the United States employed conventional warfare techniques in an unconventional war

C 400

Public opinion turned radically against the Vietnam War after the A) United States began to bomb North

Vietnam B) Communists captured the capital of South

Vietnam C) Viet Cong launched the 1968 Tet Offensive D) American troops invaded North Vietnam

C 500

C) Viet Cong launched the 1968 Tet Offensive

C 500

A positive effect of the Cuban Missile Crisis was A) the negotiation of a treaty to ban nuclear

weapons testing B) Khrushchev’s replacement by a more

reform-minded leader C) the slower development of nuclear

weapons by the Soviets D) the destruction of the Berlin Wall

D 100

A) the negotiation of a treaty to ban nuclear weapons testing

D 100

The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when A) the United States launched an air attack on

Cuba B) Kennedy accepted Khrushchev’s offer to

remove the missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy’s pledge not to invade the island and remove missiles from Turkey

C) the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missile bases from Cuba in exchange for an agreement on arms limitation

D) the U.S. Senate refused to sanction the blockade and Kennedy had to remove the “quarantine” D 200

Kennedy accepted Khrushchev’s offer to remove the missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy’s pledge not to invade the island and remove missiles from Turkey

D 200

The U-2 Incident of 1960 involved:A) A Soviet test missile that crashed in

EnglandB) A downed American spy planeC) A U.S. State Department report that

basically labeled the Soviet Union an enemy of the free world

D) The testing of the hydrogen bomb by the Soviet Union

D 300

B) A downed American spy plane

D 300

The Bay of Pigs incident was:A) When the U.S. discovered missiles in CubaB) When Cuba successfully tested their own

atomic bombC) A failed attempt at ousting Fidel Castro

from powerD) All of the above

D 400

C) A failed attempt at ousting Fidel Castro from power

D 400

The Cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following EXCEPT: A) The U.S. removing some of its missiles

from TurkeyB) The removal of Nikita Khruschev from

power in the USSRC) A U.S. agreement to abandon the American

base at GuantanamoD) A U.S. promise not to invade Cuba

D 500

C) A U.S. agreement to abandon the American base at Guantanamo

D 500

President Nixon’s policy of ‘Vietnamization’ of the war in Vietnam called for:A) A full-scale conventional invasion of North

VietnamB) Reorganization of the American army in

Vietnam into anti-guerrilla unitsC) A gradual withdrawal of all American

armed forces from VietnamD) An end to all American military & economic

aid to South Vietnam

E 100

C) A gradual withdrawal of all American armed forces from Vietnam

E 100

During the Vietnam War, the village of My Lai is significant because:A) It is the first location American ground

troops landedB) Americans brutally slaughtered

Vietnamese women & children thereC) It was the first location the world saw

Buddhist monks burn themselves in protest of American intervention

D) The village was the last place American troops departed from at the end of the Conflict

E 200

B) Americans brutally slaughtered Vietnamese women & children there

E 200

What nation – in 1954 – saw their forces overrun at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam? A) The U.S.B) The Soviet UnionC) FranceD)China

E 300

C) France

E 300

The ‘Ho Chi Minh Trail’ is a reference to:A) The path of destruction cut by the U.S. on

their attempt to push the North Vietnamese back

B) The underground tunnels employed by the Viet Cong to carry out surprise attacks on U.S. troops

C) The Viet Cong supply line from North to South Vietnam

D) The forced march of U.S. POWs during the Vietnam War E 400

C) The Viet Cong supply line from North to South Vietnam

E 400

As part of the cease-fire agreement in Vietnam in 1973:A) The U.S. was to withdraw all its troops

from VietnamB) The Viet Cong were to form a new

government for VietnamC) North Vietnam was to withdraw all its

troops from South VietnamD) The U.S. was to stop all economic &

military aid to South Vietnam

E 500

A) The U.S. was to withdraw all its troops from Vietnam

E 500

Mexico has a retirement home for this profession…

F 100

Prostitution

F 100

Religious violence has left over 50 dead in the last few

days in this country:

A) KenyaB) NigeriaC) BosniaD) Mexico

F 200

B) Nigeria

F 200

Protesters in Thailand are throwing this in protest:

A) FecesB) BloodC) WaterD) Eggs

F 300

B) Blood

F 300

A man left this in a oven over night after being under the

influence of drugs:

A)CatB) DogC) BabyD) Wife

F 400

Baby

F 400

A jogger died after being hit by this:

A)RockB) Car

C) PlaneD) Stray bullet

F 500

Plane

F 500

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