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#APUSH Cold War Review ... 1946-1991 Foreign Policy
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President Nixon’s strategy to end the Vietnam War was to
Intensify the war so that SV would feel forced to settle
Work with Laos & Cambodia - put pressure on Ho Chi Minh
Détente relationships to pressure China into backing the US
Reduce US troop involvement & teach the SV how to fight
2
1950s hysteria in the US where people were being called out for being communist was known as…
Witch Hunts
McCarthyism
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
3
President Kennedy’s policy toward South Vietnam involved
Rapidly escalating the number of American troops
Send advisors to win the “hearts & minds” of the Vietnamese
Avoiding any involvement in the affairs of the Vietnamese
Supporting Diem’s regime
4
Sputnik was…
The first Soviet Satellite in Space
The first dog in Space
The first US Satellite in Space
The first man in Space
5
What Treaty ended nuclear testing above ground?
SALT
SALT II
Open Skies Plan
Nuclear Test Ban
6
The United Nations fought for the first time in this war…
Vietnam
Iraq
Korean
Desert Storm
7
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended when
The United States agreed to allow Soviet missiles in Cuba
Agreed that Cuba should become neutral in the Cold War
The Cuban invaders were defeated at the Bay of Pigs
SU pull all missiles out of Cuba the US not to invade Cuba
8
The policy of relaxing tensions between the United States and Communist countries is known as…
Vietnamization
Containment
OPEC
Détente
9
The policy of containment, by George Kennan, called for
dividing Germany into zones
liberating Eastern Europe from communism
curbing US foreign investment to limit involvement
blocking the expansion of the Soviet Union’s influence
10
The NATO alliance represented an historic transformation in American foreign policy because
Guaranteed the permanent subordination of Germany
Established military bases outside the US territory
It departed from the principles of the Monroe Doctrine
It committed the US to a permanent peacetime alliance
11
President Eisenhower’s policy toward South Vietnam can be characterized as
Aggressive- increased involvement of the US in SV affairs
Vital to American security, as he feared the “domino affect”
Proactive, established more military outposts in the Pacific
Giving little attention after Diem took power
12
The United States helped which country during the Suez Canal Crisis?
Great Britain
Israel
France
Egypt
13
What limited arms made by the Soviet Union and United States in the early 1970s?
Open Skies Plan
SALT
SALT II
Nuclear Test Ban
14
The biggest result of the Tet Offensive was…
Saigon was taken
General Westmoreland asked for more troops
Many Vietminh and Vietcong were killed
Support for the Vietnam War fell
15
What nations fell to Communism under President Ford?
Vietnam, Cambodia, and Malaysia
Vietnam and Laos
Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos
Cambodia and Laos
16
Four people were killed and eleven wounded at Kent State University in Ohio when
Protests grew violent, leading to clashes w/ federal troops
Nat. Guard fired into a crowd of students @ anti-war protest
Nixon ordered all police dept to crush anti-war protests
Male students fought with campus feminists
17
This incident changed the relationship of the Soviets and US at the end of the 1950s…
U2 attack in the Soviet Union
Berlin Blockade
North Korea invades South Korean
Bay of Pigs
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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Called for intercontinental missile bases in Alaska
Space oriented satellites to intercept incoming missiles
Would have violated the provisions of SALT I
The building of a magnetic web that would shield the US
19
B/C of US interest in Iran the Iranian people did the following to retaliate under Carter…
Helped the Soviet Union fight the Afghanis
Iran-Contra Affair
Stopped exporting Oil to the United States
Iran Hostage Crisis
20
The US brought thousands of tons of supplies to this city when the Soviet’s kept US out…
East Warsaw
East Berlin
West Berlin
West Warsaw
21
The Process of Vietnamization means…
Training and supplying the Vietminh to fight w/o US Troops
Training and supplying the Vietcong to fight w/o US Troops
Training the South Vietnamese Army to fight w/o US Troops
Making Vietnam a territory of the United States
22
This was the failed attempt to take over Cuba and assassinate of Castro…
Guantanamo Bay Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Havana Crisis
23
Glasnost and perestroika
were viewed by Americans as
A possibility that the Cold War was nearing an end
A renewal of Stalinesque politics
Potentially threatening to Soviet-U.S. relations
China and the USSR were rekindling their relationship
24
Which of the following was the most significant foreign-policy accomplishment of Carter?
Camp David Accords
Paris Peace Accords
Panama Canal Treaties
SALT II Treaty
25
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan President Carter did the following…
Sent troops to help the Afghani rebels
Sent weapons to help the Soviet soldiers
Sent weapons to help the Afghani rebels
Declared the Soviets couldn't goto the 1980 Winter Olympics.
26
Secretary of State George C. __________ gave $13 Billion to W.Europe to help contain communism.
Dulles
Marshall
Acheson
Kissinger
27
United States’ foreign policy in the years following World War II sought to
Cool down tensions between the US & the Soviet Union
Provoke the Soviets into limited war situations
Contain communism where it currently existed
Appease Stalin by giving into small demands
28
The Korean War ended with
A peace treaty that w/drew of US & Chinese forces from Korea
An agreement to unify and neutralize Korean
The nuclear bombing of China
A stalemate armistice & continued division of N. & S. Korea
29
The 38
th
Parallel Split this country…
Germany
China
Korea
Vietnam
30
John Foster Dulles is most closely associated with which of the following
Containment
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Détente
Massive retaliation
31
Gen MacArthur was fired when criticized Pres Truman about this country during the Korean War?
Vietnam
North Korea
Loas
China
32
All of the following were difficulties of a soldier in Vietnam
EXCEPT
Continuously getting bombed by Vietminh Airplanes
Booby Traps
Not knowing who the enemy was
Jungle Terrain
33
U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was
Based on decisions by Republican presidents
Designed to root out Soviets in Asia
Born from a sense of responsibility from the Truman Doctrine
Approved by the UN Security Council
34
All of the following were signs the Soviet Union was falling in the 1980s
EXCEPT
Invasion of Afghanistan
Hungarian Revolution
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Glasnost & Perestroika
