USH Unit 7-The Cold War (1947-1960s) Voc. Quiz (#26-50)

Question 1

A campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian targets throughout South Vietnam.

Accepted Answer

Tet Offensive

Question 2

Gave U.S. President LBJ authorization for the use of "conventional'' military force in SE Asia.

Accepted Answer

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 3

US Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for valorous actions in combat in 1968.

Accepted Answer

Roy Benavidez

Question 4

Policy of the Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end the US involvement in the war.

Accepted Answer

Vietnamization

Question 5

A barrier constructed by East Germany starting on 13 August 1961.

Accepted Answer

The Berlin Wall

Question 6

It was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" (1969).

Accepted Answer

Woodstock

Question 7

Deterrence where the threat of using strong weapons against the enemy prevents the enemy's use.

Accepted Answer

Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)

Question 8

Used to describe public skepticism about LBJ's statements and policies on the Vietnam War.

Accepted Answer

credibility gap

Question 9

President Eisenhower established the agency in 1958 with a distinctly civilian space goal.

Accepted Answer

NASA

Question 10

The largest public works project for construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway.

Accepted Answer

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956

Question 11

He was the 35th President, serving from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963

Accepted Answer

JFK

Question 12

20th-century (1955–1972) space competition between two Cold War rivals, the USSR and the US.

Accepted Answer

The Space Race

Question 13

The spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC.

Accepted Answer

Apollo 11

Question 14

It refers to refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship after the Vietnam War (1978-1979).

Accepted Answer

Vietnamese “boat people”

Question 15

It was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA on 17 April 1961.

Accepted Answer

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Question 16

In the U.S., they became identified with rejection of conventional social norms of the 1950s.

Accepted Answer

The Counterculture

Question 17

The movement against the involvement of the U.S. in the Vietnam War (started in 1964).

Accepted Answer

Vietnam Anti-War Protests

Question 18

A key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 (a communist).

Accepted Answer

Ho Chi Minh

Question 19

Student activist movement in the U.S. that was one of the main representations of the New Left.

Accepted Answer

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Question 20

It was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the USSR and Cuba on one side and the US.

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 21

The 36th President (1963–1969); responsible for designing the "Great Society" legislation.

Accepted Answer

LBJ

Question 22

Ballistic missile with a minimum range of more than 3,400 miles (tipped with nuclear warheads).

Accepted Answer

ICBM

Question 23

It was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from (1956-1975).

Accepted Answer

The Vietnam War

Question 24

A political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the U.S.

Accepted Answer

The Vietcong

Question 25

African-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to success.

Accepted Answer

Katherine Johnson

USH Unit 7-The Cold War (1947-1960s) Voc. Quiz (#26-50)

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USH Unit 7-The Cold War (1947-1960s) Voc. Quiz (#26-50)

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