Containment

Question 1

What were the causes of the Korean War?

Answer 1

1. 1949 mao takes China
2. Korea had been split after ww2
3. Potential for conflict

Question 2

Who was the South Korean leader?

Answer 2

Syngman Rhee

Question 3

Who was the North Korean leader?

Answer 3

Kim il Sung

Question 4

What started the Korean War?

Answer 4

1. June 1950 north attacks and overruns the south

2. MacArthur led UN to push north back to China

Question 5

What happened after October 1950?

Answer 5

1. China joins and North drives south back
2. 1951 more us arrive and retake the 38th
3. Truman tells MacArthur to stop. He criticises Truman and is sacked
4. Armistice July 1953

Question 6

How many people died in Korea?

Answer 6

Four million

Question 7

What was the background of the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 7

1. In 1959 Batista was overthrown by Castro.
2. Makes trade agreement with Russia in 1960
3. America stops trade
4. Castro nationalises American businesses

Question 8

What happened in the Bay of Pigs?

Answer 8

2. JFK comes to power in 1961
3. Continues invasion
4. April 1500 exiles land but are killed by 20000 Cubans
5. JFK doesn’t send help

Question 9

What were the consequences of the Bay of Pigs?

Answer 9

1. Embarrasses JFK.

2. Kruschev is scared of another invasion so sends missiles

Question 10

Describe the events of October 1961

Answer 10

1. Spy plane takes pictures of missiles
2. Kennedy blockades Cuba
3. Soviet ships turn around
4. Kruschev sends his two telegrams
5. Spy plane shot down
6. Kennedy offers ultimatum and krushchev backs down

Question 11

What was in Kruschevs telegrams?

Answer 11

1. If blockade was lifted and no invasion, the missiles would be removed
2. Same but USA withdrawal from Turkey

Question 12

What were the outcomes of the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 12

1. No embarrassment
2. Thawed tensupion as they’d realised what MAD was
3. 1963 hotline USA to ussr
4. Nuclear non-proliferation treaty in 1968

Question 13

what was the background of vietnam?

Answer 13

1. 1954 allies decide to split Vietnam from the French at Geneva
2. usa back Diem with military advisors
3. Diem killed many Vietminh
4. 1959 vietcong is ordered to fight

Question 14

why did the USA get involved in Vietnam?

Answer 14

1. prop up Diem
2. august 1964 Tonkin incident
3. Johnson sends troops in

Question 15

what was the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?

Answer 15

a blank cheque for Johnson to do whatever he wanted in Vietnam

Question 16

what were the US tactics in Vietnam?

Answer 16

bombing campaigns, chemical warfare, search and destroy, hearts and minds

Question 17

what were the vietcong tactics?

Answer 17

guerilla, ho chi minh trail, booby traps

Question 18

what was operation rolling thunder?

Answer 18

1965 US Carpet bombing

Question 19

what was the Tet offensive?

Answer 19

1968 vietcong offensive

Question 20

what was the Mai Lai massacre

Answer 20

1968 search and destroy murder an entire village with no vietcong casualties. this got leaked to the press

Question 21

why did the USA lose in Vietnam?

Answer 21

1. vietcong blended in
2. opposition to the war
3. the media displayed images of atrocities
4. failure of hearts and minds
5. soviet/chinese support

Question 22

how did the vietnam war end?

Answer 22

1. nixon’s vietnamisation post 1969
2. USA had left by 1973
3. 1975 the south fell

Question 23

Why was diem hated?

Answer 23

1. Part of the landlord class
2. Hated buddhists
3. Very corrupt