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Unit 9 Cold War Review #1
Unit 9 Cold War Review #1
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Quiz for Ballinger's US history class
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1
Who were the North Vietnamese sympathizers in South Vietnam?
Viet Cong
Viet Minh
ARVN
NVA
2
What was Gorbachev's plan to improve the economy and decentralize decision making called?
Detente
Perestroika
Sputnik
Glastnost
3
What was the name of the Soviet satellite?
Das Satellite
Big Bertha
Beatnik
Sputnik
4
Which of the following allowed LBJ to fight an undeclared war in Vietnam?
Tet Offensive
Bay of Pigs resolution
Truman Doctrine
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
5
Which President favored the use of Covert Action
Lyndon Baines Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
6
Who claimed to have the names of over 200 communists in a speech in West Virginia?
Richard Nixon
Joseph McCarthy
Hubert Humphrey
Dwight Eisenhower
7
What is necessary for Deterrence to work?
ICBMs
NATO
SDI
second strike capability
8
Whose actions
DID NOT
demonstrate containment in Korea?
MacArthur
Truman
9
Which of the following is an example of a search and destroy mission?
My Lai
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Saigon
Tet Offensive
10
Who was the communist leader in the Chinese Civil War?
Syngman Rhee
Chiang
Mao
Ho Chi Minh
11
Which of the following is a defoliant?
Lady Bird's chili
Napalm
NDEA
Agent Orange
12
Where did President Eisenhower use covert action?
Guatemala
Venezuela
Puerto Rico
Nicaragua
13
What was the main motivation for the Soviet Union in the Cold War?
prevent an attack
spread communism
control the world
control all of Germany
14
What was the purpose of the HUAC?
aid for the West Germans
investigating suspected communists
launching ICBMs
providing aid for Europe
15
What was a significance of the television coverage of the Tet Offensive?
it demonstrated that the US could not win this war
it lead to further escalation
increase in the popular support of troops
it proved that search and destroy missions were successful