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Wanted to unite all of Vietnam as a single Communist nation
Vo Nguyen Giap
Ho Chi Minh
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao Zedong
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The _____Theory proposed that if Vietnam fell to the communists then all of SE Asia would fall
House of Cards
Cold War
Checkers
Domino
3
This man was censured by the Senate in the 1950's for his witch hunt of communists in the gov.
John Kennedy
Alger Hiss
Joseph McCarthy
Richard Nixon
4
Fought in the early 1950s as the first armed struggle of the cold war
Loatian Civil War
Berlin Blockade
Korean War
Cold War
5
The Berlin wall was built by which Soviet Premier
Gorbachev
Stalin
Yelstin
Khrushchev
6
Soviat plan in the 1980s to allow more "openness" such as freedom of religion and speech
Containment
United Nations
Glasnost
Wasaw Pact
7
Phase coined by Winston Churchill referring to the divide between Eastern and Western Europe
Iron Curtain
Berlin Airlift
Marshall Plan
NATO
8
Nationalist leader of China during WW2. He was pro-American
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Zedong
Vo Nguyen Giap
Chiang Kai-Shek
9
Confrontation and competition between the USA and the Soviet Union from 1946-1991
NATO
Korean War
Cold War
Berlin Airlift
10
This Vietnam battle caught America off guard, and itwas a huge win for the communists in 1968
La Drang Valley Campaign
Gulf of Tonkin
Tet Offensive
Battle for Saigon
11
Program in the 1980s to allow some private enterprise and profit making in the Russian economy
Potsdam
Perestroika
Detente
Glasnost
12
An attack on one member nation is the quivalent to an attack on all member nations
SALT1
Marshall Plan
Warsaw Pact
NATO
13
Created after WW2 to promote peace and humanitarian aid for the countries of the world
Iron Curtain
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
Marshall Plan
14
Relaxation of tension between the USA and the Soviet Union under President Nixon
Potsdam
Glasnost
Detente
Marshall Plan
15
The original goal of the CIA was to.......
Provide fodder for great spy movies
Prevent terrorist attacks on American allies
Prevent communist uprising in other countries
Stop the Nazis from taking over Europe
16
This American Statesman was accused of being a Communist, and her was convicted for perjury
George Marshall
Ethel Rosenberg
Alger Hiss
Michael Gorbachev
17
The U-2 incident deepened tension between the USA and the USSR. This was created because
Soviet submarine invaded US waters
American spy plane crashed inside Russia
Irish band toured Russia
KGB was created
18
Became the Soviet Premier in 1985
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalen
Georgy Malenkov
Mikhail Gorbachev
19
Massive dropping of food and supplies to keep Berlin afloat
Perestroika
Berlin Airlift
United Nations
Marshall Plan
20
The Bay of Pigs operation was ordered by President....
Kennedy
Nixon
Eisenhower
Truman
21
Vietnamization called for....
Using Agent Orange an napalm on the jungles of Vietnam
Sending more US troops to SE Asia
The scaling back of US forces in Vietnam
America surrendering to the Vietcong
22
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave war powers to...
The Secretary of Defense
The President
The Senate
The Joint Chiefs Chairman
23
The launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik, prompted Khrushchev to say...
"We will bury capitalism"
"We will be the first to put a man on the moon"
"We will win the space race"
"We will be able to spy on America now"
24
The Vietcong was a ________________ of South Vietnamese communists.
Rap Vocals group
Guerilla Army
Unskilled Militia
Well-trained army
25
Soviet led alliance of Eastern Europena countries. It was meant to be the USSRs answer to NATO
Iron Curtain
Marshall Plan
Warsaw Pact
Potsdam
26
American sponsored program to aid Eurpoean countries economically after WW2
Warsaw Pact
Marshall Plan
Perestroika
Berlin Airlift
27
In the Space Race, the Soviets beat America to____ but the USA beat the USSR to _____.
Space/The Moon
Space/the buffet line
Space/Mars
The Moon/Space
28
CIA operations are...
Public
Covert
Manifest
Retalitaratory
29
The Peace Corps...
Was the precursor to the Red Cross
Failed miserably at its goals
Worked to end the arms race
Provides humanitarian services in Third World nations
30
The first treaty to limit nuclear arms since the start fo the Cold War
SALT 1
Potsdam
Detente
Warsaw Pact
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Americas Cold War policy to stop the spread of communism
Berlin Airlift
Iron Curtain
Containment
Glasnost
32
Fidel Castro brought panic to America by leading a communist revolution in which country
Chili
North Korea
Poland
Cuba
33
In the entire history of the Cold War, the closest the USA and the USSR ever got to WW3 was..
Soviets tried to gain control of the Middle East
When China became communist
The Cuban Missile Crisis
When Soviets began having satellite nations in East Europe
34
Where Truman and Stalin met fo the first time to determine the fate of post war Germany
Potsdam
Glasnost
Perestroika
Detente
35
The Flexible response policy was which president's Cold War approach
Nixon
Eisenhower
Truman
Kennedy
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Communist leader of China. He led the revolutio to turn China communist after WW2
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-Shek
Vo Nguyen Giap
Ho Chi Minh
