Beginning of the Cold War Combined Quizs

Question 1

Idea of containment was developed by

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George Kennan

Question 2

The US supported him in the Vietnamese elections and government

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Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 3

Husband and Wife executed for being Soviets spies

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Rosenbergs

Question 4

All of the following were locations where US sent army without Congressional permission except

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China

Question 5

US was dropping more bombs on this country each month than those dropped on Germany in WWII?

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Vietnam

Question 6

He sent advisers to Vietnam in early 1960s?

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John F. Kennedy

Question 7

Vietnam is was divided at?

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17th parallel

Question 8

With the Test-ban treaty, testing banned in all the following places except?

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underground

Question 9

As a result of the Soviets removing the missiles from Cuba the US

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removed missiles from Turkey

Question 10

Leader of the NVA-Viet Cong?

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Ho Chi Minh

Question 11

This was wear a US ship may have been fired upon?

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Gulf of Tonkin

Question 12

They split from alliance with the Soviets, calling the "paper tigers"?

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China

Question 13

Initially the US sent these to help the South Vietnamese

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Advisers

Question 14

In the 1960s the Soviets started losing control of some of their governments in this region?

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Eastern Europe

Question 15

All of the following were arguments given for being in Vietnam except?

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morally right

Question 16

The policy the US adopted toward communism?

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Containment

Question 17

JFK challenges the US and the Soviets by saying

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we would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade

Question 18

Term that means overthrow or sudden seizure of government

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Coup d'etat

Question 19

Term for working people

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Proletariat

Question 20

Massacre by US soldiers against Vietnamese that received widespread publicity & a public trial?

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My Lai

Question 21

He traveled to Korea and helped to end the war w threat of using atomic weapons?

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 22

Americans built these in their backyards out of fear?

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Bomb shelters

Question 23

All of the following were problems in the election in 1952 except?

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Prosperity

Question 24

President who greatly escalated the war in Vietnam?

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 25

All of the following were options in the Cuban missile crisis except

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open negotiation

Question 26

All of the following had nuclear missiles at the time except

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China

Question 27

Leader of China during and after the Communist Revolution there

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Mao Zedong

Question 28

This country became communist in the era?

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China

Question 29

This event was the closest we came to war with the Soviets

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 30

Vietnam is divide at what parallel?

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17th

Question 31

Goal of the U.S. In the postwar period?

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Build strong democracies

Question 32

This led to massive inflation during the 1960s?

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The Vietnam War

Question 33

People built these in their backyards or basements as a result of fear of atomic attack

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Bomb Shelter

Question 34

Senator who used manipulation of the media and said he had a "list of names" of communists

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Joseph McCarthy

Question 35

He was the Vietnamese leader eventually assassinated?

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Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 36

The Korean war or conflict was

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a UN supported coalition of countries

Question 37

Korea is divided at what parallel?

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38th

Question 38

Term for LBJ's welfare programs that greatly reduced poverty in the US?

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Great Society

Question 39

Why did the US send troops into the Dominican Republic under President Johnson?

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We did not want a communist leader to succceed

Question 40

After 1954 the US becomes involved here?

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Vietnam

Question 41

Developed as result of the U.S. government spending money to build up the military

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Military Industrial Complex

Question 42

North Korea is divide at this parallel?

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38th

Question 43

Which events inspired the Truman doctrine?

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Soviet threats in Greece and Turkey

Question 44

Who was President in 1954 at the start of US involvement in Vietnam?

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 45

Economic aid to rebuild Europe after WWII

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Marshall plan

Question 46

This country weaken NATO because of US-Soviet Brinkmanship in the Cuban missile crisis

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France

Question 47

These happened on college campuses protesting the war in Vietnam?

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Teach-ins

Question 48

Term for coming close to war, but not ?

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Brinkmanship

Question 49

This gave LBJ more power to send troops to Vietnam?

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 50

Type of government established by Stalin

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Totalitarian

Question 51

After Poland the first clash between U.S. And Soviets during Cold war

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Berlin

Question 52

JFK and the US leadership in the early 1960s thought that we we were

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trailing the Soviets in nuclear missiles

Question 53

Massive attack by the North Vietnamese over Christmas holiday/defeat for North, but moral win?

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Tet Offensive

Question 54

What was the significance of the U-2 incident?

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motivated US to increase technological development

Question 55

Designed to seek to achieve global peace and security

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UN

Question 56

President during the beginning of the Korean War?

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Harry S. Truman

Question 57

Fear of communism in the 1950s

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Red scare

Question 58

When working for the Federal Government during this era they had to take

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loyalty oath

Question 59

Why did the United States choose not to support uprisings in Eastern Europe?

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felt that doing so would riskwar with the Soviets.

Beginning of the Cold War Combined Quizs

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