Chapter 26.5

Question 1

Who was the leader of the Vietnamese Comunists?

Answer 1

Ho Chi Minh

Question 2

What was Ho Chi Minh’s Communist forces called?

Answer 2

Vietminh

Question 3

Who was the president of South Vietnam?

Answer 3

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 4

What was the country that became the scene of Communist aggression when the Vietminh-backed Pathet Leo staged a rebellion?

Answer 4

Loas

Question 5

What was the country that was dragged into the Vietnam Wat in the late 1960s when the North Vietnamese began using the country as a base for attacks against South Vietnam?

Answer 5

Cambodia

Question 6

What was the North Vietnamese invasion route and supply train?

Answer 6

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 7

What provided the legal justification for US military involvement in the Vietnam conflict?

Answer 7

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 8

When did President Johnson send the first American troops into Vietnam?

Answer 8

1965

Question 9

Who was the president who sent American troops to Vietnam?

Answer 9

President Johnson

Question 10

Who was the American general sent to Vietnam to lead the troops there?

Answer 10

General William C. Westmoreland

Question 11

What was a large-scale attack against 30 South Vietnamese cities and overall several US military installations?

Answer 11

Tet Offensive

Question 12

What was the process of gradually withdrawing American troops and replacing them with South Vietnamese?

Answer 12

Vietnamization

Question 13

When was a cease-fire agreement signed to end the Vietnam War?

Answer 13

1973

Question 14

What was the parallel along which Vietnam was split?

Answer 14

17th parallel

Question 15

When was the year that Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, fell to the Communist North Vientnamese?

Answer 15

1975

Question 16

What was Saigon renamed?

Answer 16

Ho Chi Minh City

Question 17

Who was known as the “Father of the Hydrogen Bomb”?

Answer 17

Edward Teller

Question 18

What was a more powerful nuclear weapon?

Answer 18

hydrogen bomb

Question 19

Who was Teller’s main opponent in the developing of the hydrogen bomb?

Answer 19

Robert Oppenheimer

Question 20

What was the threat that was caused by Soviets possessing many more nuclear weapons than the United Nations?

Answer 20

nuclear blackmail

Question 21

What was the movement that demanded America’s nuclear arsenal be “frozen” at current levels with no new or improved weaponry?

Answer 21

nuclear-freezing movement

Question 22

What was the idea reducing tension or hostility between nations?

Answer 22

détente

Question 23

Who ended American opposition to Communist China’s membership in the United Nations?

Answer 23

Henry Kissinger

Question 24

Who succeeded Nikita Khrushchev?

Answer 24

Leonid Brezhnev

Question 25

What was the treaty signed which resulted in an even greatest transfer of technology from the free world to the Communist bloc the enhanced the Communist's ability to make war?

Answer 25

Helsinki Accords

Question 26

Who was the famous Russian writer who had been imprisoned in the Soviet Union for exposing the cruelties of Communism in his novels and essays?

Answer 26

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Question 27

What was one of the most brutal "wars of liberation"?

Answer 27

the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Question 28

What was the first man-made satellie?

Answer 28

Sputnik I

Question 29

Who was the first man in space?

Answer 29

Yuri Gagarin

Question 30

Who was the first man to step onto the surface of the moon?

Answer 30

Neil Armstrong

Question 31

When did the Apollo 11 land on the moon?

Answer 31

1969

Question 32

Who was President Nixon's assistant for national security affairs?

Answer 32

Henry Kissinger

Question 33

What was the treaty where the United States and Soviet Union agreed to limit the production of nuclear arms?

Answer 33

SALT I

Question 34

True of false: The American press supported the war in Vietnam.

Answer 34

false

Question 35

Who was Britain's first woman prime minister?

Answer 35

Margaret Thatcher

Question 36

Who was the president of the United States whose term became the longest growth of vigorous and continuous economic and less government regulation?

Answer 36

President Ronald Reagan

Question 37

What was the most extensive navel conflict since World War II?

Answer 37

Falkland Islands War

Question 38

What was an offensive policy of preemptive strikes to stop Communism before it could enslave a nation?

Answer 38

Reagan Doctrine

Question 39

What was the island in the West Indies that was thought to be used by Fidel Castro as a military base to invade mainland South America?

Answer 39

Grenada

Question 40

What were freedom fighters against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua?

Answer 40

Contras

Question 41

What was the South Korea airliner shot down by Soviet fighter jets?

Answer 41

KAL 007

Question 42

What was the nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine where a reactor had a meltdown?

Answer 42

Chernobyl

Question 43

What was the system of space-age weaponry designed to destroy enemy inter-continental ballistic missiles in flight?

Answer 43

SDI

Question 44

What was the SDI dubbed to be?

Answer 44

the "Star Wars program"

Question 45

What was the movement of Polish nationalists who stood up to the Soviets?

Answer 45

Solidarity

Question 46

Who was the leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland?

Answer 46

Lech Walesa

Question 47

Who came to power as leader of the Soviet Union in 1985 and signed the INF treaty?

Answer 47

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 48

What was the treaty in which the Unites States and the Soviet Union agreed to remove their modern-range missiles from Europe?

Answer 48

INF Treaty

Question 49

What was the rebuilding of the Soviet Union based on a democratic, free enterprise model which means "reconstructing"?

Answer 49

Perestroika

Question 50

What was the foreign policy that the Soviet Union adopted which means "openness," claimed that the Communists wanted world peace and had no more plants of conquest?

Answer 50

Glasnost

Question 51

By what year did the Soviet Union begin to lose control of Eastern Europe?

Answer 51

1989

Question 52

What was the country that closely monitored the events in Poland and tested the Soviet resistance by staging a hero's funeral for one killed by the Communists?

Answer 52

Hungary

Question 53

What was the country that held free elections, brining the Solidarity to power in Parliament?

Answer 53

Poland

Question 54

What was the people group who fled Communist oppression, reaching West Germany by way of sympathetic supporters?

Answer 54

East Germans

Question 55

What was the people group who took to the streets of Prague, demonstrating for free elections and the end of Communist rule?

Answer 55

Czechs

Question 56

In what year did the Berlin Wall open?

Answer 56

1989

Question 57

When were East and West Germany officially reunited?

Answer 57

1990

Question 58

Who was the cruel Communist dictator of Romania who was executed, overthrowing Communism?

Answer 58

Nicolae Ceausescu

Question 59

What was the place in Beijing where a million university students and workers gathered in a great demonstration for freedom?

Answer 59

Tiananmen Square

Question 60

Who was the President of the Russian Republic who led the resistance against the coup in Russia?

Answer 60

Boris Yeltsin

Question 61

What was the group made up of former Soviet republics?

Answer 61

CIS

Question 62

By what year had the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a nation?

Answer 62

1991