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APUSH 8-9 Cold War
APUSH 8-9 Cold War
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Belief that the US should be willing to push the USSR to the limit of nearly going to war
Brinkmanship
Socialism
Detente
Arms Race
2
Which acrynym summed up the total anniliation that a US vs. USSR nuclear war would cause?
BAD
SALT
MAD
SAD
3
Before 1963 what was the American role in Vietnam?
The US had no involvement until after 1963
Launching major airstrikes against Communist targets
Primarily to advise the South Vietnamese military
A full-scale ground invasion of North Vietnam
4
Why was it difficult for American troops to identify and engage with Vietcong forces?
Their camouflage was superior to anything the US had seen
They hid among civilian populations and rarely wore uniforms
North Vietnam had complete control of Southern airspace
Very few Vietcong actually fought against the US
5
How many different nations were created after the fall of the USSR?
10
600
20
15
6
They revealed that America's goals in Vietnam had changed over time
The White House Release
The French Banana Report
The Treasury Files
The Pentagon Papers
7
Reform by Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed criticism of the Soviet Union
Perestroika
Brezhnev
Glasnost
Solidarity
8
The first two major successes of Containment were:
Greece; Turkey
Turkey; Korea
China; Korea
Greece; Spain
9
Which nation did the USSR invade in 1979 that had similar impacts as the Vietnam war had on US?
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Afghanistan
Turkmenistan
10
How did the US resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Kennedy called Khrushchev directly and asked nicely
A quarantine of the island forced Soviet ships to back down
America invaded Cuba
Airstrikes took out the missile sites
11
Reform by Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed some small amounts of Capitalism/free market policy
Glasnost
Solidarity
Perestroika
Brezhnev
12
A country, technically independent, but closely controlled by the Soviet Union
China
Satellite Nation
DMZ
Puppet Country
13
The Camp David Accords were an agreement facilitated by the US between:
Egypt and Libya
Syria and Egypt
Israel and Syria
Israel and Egypt
14
The primary weapons system that US and Soviet forces used to deliver nuclear weapons
Intercontinental Ballistic Montanas
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
Intercontinental Baltic Sea Missiles
Anticommunist Ballistic Missiles
15
An early loss for the US in the Space Race
USSR defeating the US in the Space Olympics
USSR landing a dog on the moon
USSR launching the Sputnik satellite
USSR launching the U2 spy plane program
16
Name for the dividing line between Capitalism and Communism in Europe
The Iron Curtain
The Wooden Wall
The Wall of Martyrs
The Steel Partition
17
The invasion of Cuba by American backed Cuban exiles, attempting to overthrow Castro:
The Bay of Pigs
The Gulf of Tonkin
The Suez Crisis
The French Banana War
18
Which individual instituted capitalist reforms in China in the 1980s?
Sun Yat-Sen
Li Shang
Zhou Enlai
Deng Xiaoping
19
The group of Guerrilla fighters who the US mostly fought during the Vietnam War.
The Vietminh
The Dien Bien Phu
The NVA
The Vietcong
20
What event in Poland signified the end of Communism was approaching in Eastern Europe?
The success of the Solidarity movement
The Great Czechoslovakian Farce
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The Tiananmen Square protests
21
What was Agent Orange used for?
Poison the water supply to indirectly kill VC
Killing vegetation where Vietcong might be hiding
Burn down entire villages
Destroy crops so the Vietcong couldn't eat
22
Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative was a plan to:
Sneak into the USSR and blow up all of their nuclear weapons
Place a missile defense system in space
Create a machine that would control the weather
Create a protective dome over the entire US
23
Which event was the greatest foreign policy failure Jimmy Carter?
The Suez Crisis
The Great Czechoslovakian Farce
The Berlin Crisis
The Iran Hostage Crisis
24
What was Detente?
Escalation of the Arms Race once we won the Space Race
Lessening of tension between the US and USSR and/or China
Peace deals between rival nations like India and Pakistan
Attempt by the US and USSR to divide more countries in half
25
Which nation was the most successful Communist state not tied to the USSR or China?
Rawanda
Cuba
Yugoslavia
Uzbekistan
26
Which event demonstrated that the US wasn't winning the Vietnam War as easily at it had seemed?
The My Lai Massacre
The Tet Offensive
The Battle of Khe Sanh
The Great Czechoslovakian Farce
27
Approximately how many Vietnamese were killed during the Vietnam War?
58,000,000
3,000,000
5,800
30,000
28
Biggest win for the US in the space race?
Launching the first telecommunication satellite
Putting the first human in orbit
Colonizing Mars
Apollo program/Moon landing
29
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution did which of the following?
Authorized bombing campaigns over North Vietnam
Allowed American forces to attack Laos and Cambodia
Gave Johnson "blank check" to contain Communism in Indochina
Formally declared war on North Vietnam
30
He was the leader of Communist China after its Civil War ended in 1949.
Chiang Kai Shek
Mao Zedong
Bob Johnson
Deng Xioping
31
US sold weapons to a Middle-Eastern nation to help rebels fighting Communism in Latin America
The Iran-Contra Affair
The Berlin Crisis
The Tiananmen Square Incident
The Great Czechoslovakian Farce
32
Vietnamization was a plan to do what?
Gradually withdraw American forces from South Vietnam
Turn over fighting the Vietcong to S. Vietnamese forces
Launch and invasion of the North through Laos and Cambodia
Evacuate any non-Communists and abandon South Vietnam
33
What did the 26th Amendment do?
Overturned Prohibition
Lowered the voting age to 18
Limited the President to 2 terms or 10 years
Raised the drinking age to 21
34
Approximately how many Americas were killed during the Vietnam War?
30,000
3,000,000
58,000
5,800
35
Which was the result of the Korean War:
Korea destroyed by nuclear weapons
Korea reunified as a Communist state
Korea reunified as a non-Communist state
Korean remained divided along the 38th parallel.
36
What happened during the 1989 event in Tiananmen Square in China?
China's Communist Party voluntarily resigned
The US had to help stop a coup of the Chinese military
Democratic protests overthrew the Chinese government
1000s were killed as the government cracked down on protests
37
Which was not a reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union?
The failure of Glasnost and Perestroika
Years of oppression of political opposition to the gov't
Pressure from the American government to end Communism
Economic weakness after the invasion of Afghanistan
38
What was the most common tactic used by US forces fighting in Vietnam
Conventional warfare
Search and Destroy missions
Naval warfare on Vietnam's many rivers
Airborne paratrooper attacks
39
The containment policy provided for which of the following?
Allow Communism to spread to our enemies to weaken them
Stop the spread, but allow the current state of Communism
End all Communist governments as quickly as possible
Defeat the Soviet Union in a nuclear war to end Communism
40
The end result of the Vietnam War was:
Vietnam unified under a US backed Democratic government
Vietnam remains bitterly divided north and south even today
Vietnam was occupied by China as a colony
Vietnam was unified as a single Communist state
41
The Domino Theory stated that:
US Containment needed to eliminated Communist dictators
Board games just arent as fun as they used to be
If one nation fell to Communism so would its neighbors
If the USSR is destroyed all others Communists would fall
42
The War Powers Act allows the President to deploy troops for how many days without Congress?
150
There is no limit
20
90
43
The Berlin Wall was constructed in:
1954
1959
1961
1967
44
Event where the US and UK flew supplies into non-Communist citizens isolated by Soviet Blockade
The Great Czechoslovakian Farce
The Warsaw Wall
The Berlin Banana Action
The Berlin Airlift
45
Which of these events took place between the USSR, France, the UK, and Egypt?
The Suez Crisis
The Berlin Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The French Banana Crisis
46
The US couldn effectively destroy the Ho Chi Minh Trail because:
The US didn't know it was there
America didn't have any way to reach its isolated location
It ran through nations we weren't fighting with
It was entirely underground
