PDG Notes Flashcards
Berlin crisis did what for the Cold war?
1.12.4. The Berlin Crisis awakened Americans to the impact of the Cold War between
the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Generatl MacArthur destroyed which country army?
1.12.9. General MacArthur’s amphibious assault at Inchon and successive
operations shattered the North Korean Army, but the United Nations advance into
North Korea led to Communist Chinese intervention.
Operation FARMGATE LOCATED WHERE?
After eight years, during which the Air Force worked to build America’s
strategic nuclear forces, President Kennedy’s administration faced national wars of
liberation backed by the Soviet Union. Responding to Communist efforts in Laos and
South Vietnam, President Kennedy in April 1961 ordered OPERATION FARMGATE
Operations Rolling Thunder was a programed ordered by which President?
1.14.2. Faced with a deteriorating political and military situation in South
Vietnam, President Johnson ordered Operation ROLLING THUNDER; a sign
of American support to South Vietnam and a signal of United States resolve.
Beginning on 2 March 1965, Rolling Thunder was “a program of measured
and limited air action against selected military targets in North Vietnam
remaining south of the 19th Parallel.”
Operation Rice Bowl failed where?
1.15.5. Operation RICE BOWL, the April 1980 attempt to rescue American hostages from the United States embassy in
Iran, ended in disaster at the Desert One refueling site.
Operations Just Cause was located?
Finally, Operation JUST CAUSE in 1989 tested air operations; this time in Panama.
Operation Provide relief was located where?
1.17.1. Civil unrest in the wake of a two-year civil war contributed to a famine in Somalia that killed up to 350,000
people in 1992. As many as 800,000 refugees fled the stricken country. The United Nations-led relief effort began in July
1992. To relieve the suffering of refugees near the Kenya-Somalia border and then Somalia itself, the United States
initiated Operation PROVIDE RELIEF in August 1992.
Operation NOBLE EAGLE focused on protecting united states homeland from both internal and?
and external air attacks of the nature used on September 11. United States Air
Force fighter, tanker, and surveillance air assets provided 24-hour intercept response coverage for virtually the entire
United States in the form of ground alert and airborne combat air patrols over designated locations.
General Henry “Hap” Arnold
General of the Air Force Henry H. “Hap” Arnold. General Arnold was an aviation pioneer and is generally
recognized as the father of the modern United States Air Force, commanding the United
States Army Air Forces during World War II. Arnold was born in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania,
25 June 1886, and graduated from West Point in 1907.
The Berlin Airlift?
USA, England, France occupied Germany to access city of Berlin.The allis built a Luftbruck-and air bridge into Berlin. Cold war strategy
Operations SAFE HAVEN 1 AND 2 transported how many Hungarian Refugees into the USA?
Humanitarian efforts continued after the Air Force became a separate service and through the ensuing decades
During Operation SAFE HAVEN I and II, in 1956 and 1957, the Military Air Transport Service 1608th Air Transport
Wing, Charleston Air Force Base South Carolina, and 1611th Air Transport Wing, McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey,
airlifted over 10,000 Hungarian refugees to the United States.
Operation UPHOLD DEMOCRACY, Haiti(1994)
America uphold a deal and pretty much told the military leader to give the country back to the president
SECDEF
gives advice to combatants commanders.
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
4 Star General appointed by the President
Unit Control Center provides response and recovery support to the Incident CC as direct by who?
Emergency Operations Center
