Vietnam war

Question 1

Who became the new leader of the Soviet union after Joseph Stalin died in 1953

Answer 1

Niketa Krushchev

Question 2

who became a rebel leader of Cuba after they overthrew Fulgencio Batista in January 1959

Answer 2

Fidel Castero

Question 3

Where did the fist Cold War crisis occur?

Answer 3

Cuba

Question 4

Around how far is Cuba from Florida

Answer 4

around 90 miles

Question 5

what was it called when 1500 Cuban exiles landed by boat at Cuba and Castro’s forces responded quickly, killing around 300 of them and capturing the rest.

Answer 5

Bay of Pigs

Question 6

A barrier of concrete and barbed wire between East and West Berlin which cut out communication between the two parts of the city

Answer 6

The Berlin wall

Question 7

U.S Navy formed a what, around Cuba which was designed to prevent Soviet shops from bringing in more weapons.

Answer 7

A blockade

Question 8

Who was Alan Shepard Jr.

Answer 8

First U.S. astronaut in space on May 1961

Question 9

What was the Domino Theory

Answer 9

It was the fear that if one country fell to communist other countries would too.

Question 10

In July French and Vietnamese leader came to an agreement called the…

Answer 10

Geneva Accords

Question 11

What were the Geneva Accords

Answer 11

The Geneva Accords temporarily dividing Vietnam into North and South along the 17th parallel.

Question 12

North Vietnam was lead by

Answer 12

Ho Chi Minh

Question 13

South Vietnam was lead by

Answer 13

Ngo Dinh Deim

Question 14

What type of dictatorship was North Vietnam

Answer 14

Communist dictatorship

Question 15

What type of dictatorship was South Vietnam

Answer 15

Western style government

Question 16

Who were the guerrilla solders of the communist faction in Vietnam who saw the war as a battle for their very existence.

Answer 16

Vietcong

Question 17

Another word for the National Liberation Front

Answer 17

Vietcong

Question 18

who commanded U.S. ground forces

Answer 18

General William Westmoreland

Question 19

What were the Missions where U.S. patrols searched for hidden enemy camps then destroyed them with massive fire power called?

Answer 19

Search and Destroy missions

Question 20

What was it called when planes also released chemicals to kill the dense forests on the trail and to increase visibility from the air. American veterans and Vietnamese civilians later suffered serious health problems from exposure to these chemicals.

Answer 20

Agent Orange

Question 21

what was the turning point in the Vietnam War that was a series of surprise attacks all over South Vietnam, including an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam’s capital.

Answer 21

TET Offensive

Question 22

What were people who were against the war called

Answer 22

doves

Question 23

what bird symbolizes peace

Answer 23

doves

Question 24

What were people who were for the war called

Answer 24

hawks

Question 25

what is a culture with its own values and ways of behaving.

Answer 25

Counterculture

Question 26

College students—most of whom were white and from wealthier families—were able to get draft releases that were called?

Answer 26

Deferments (an excuse from the draft).

Question 27

what did some young men burn in protest of the Vietnam War and the draft?

Answer 27

their draft cards

Question 28

who announced that he would not run for president in 1968.

Answer 28

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 29

President Johnson’s supported who in the run for presidency

Answer 29

His vice President Herbert H. Humphrey

Question 30

After winning the California primary and giving his victory speech who was assassinated

Answer 30

Robert Kennedy

Question 31

Who assassinated Robert Kennedy?

Answer 31

Sirhan Sirhan.

Question 32

who won the Democratic nomination for president, | but had damaged his chances of victory with the events that happened in Chicago?

Answer 32

Herbert Humphry

Question 33

who was a candidate for president from the American Independent Party and promised to restore law and order to America.

Answer 33

George Wallace

Question 34

who was a republican nominee?

Answer 34

Richard M. Nixon

Question 35

who promised his “silent majority”that he would restore law and order in America.

Answer 35

Richard M. Nixon

Question 36

Who won the election

Answer 36

Richard Nixon

Question 37

What did Nixon order the bombing of?

Answer 37

enemy supply routes and hideouts in neighboring Cambodia and Laos

Question 38

What happened at Kent State?

Answer 38

Four students were dead and at least nine more were wounded when National Guard troops fired into a crowd of protesters.

Question 39

What act was passed in 1973 that required the president | to get congressional approval before committing the U.S. troops to an armed struggle.

Answer 39

Wars Power Act

Question 40

Name three ways the Vietnam war effected the United States

Answer 40

- They lost a lot of men - Divided America - Now makes people very skeptical of getting involved in another war

Question 41

Name three ways the Vietnam war effected Vietnam

Answer 41

- Many died of Starvation - Agent Orange had many health problems for the civilians - They lost a lot of lives including soldiers and even civilians