Aviation History: 6.1

Question 0

This officer was the first Air Force Chief of Staff.

Answer 0

Spaatz

Question 1

This cargo plane could move 10 tons of cargo for the Berlin Airlift.

Answer 1

C-54

Question 2

This branch of the military was created by the signing of the national security act.

Answer 2

United States Air Force (USAF)

Question 3

This was the name of the strategy to rebuild Europe.

Answer 3

Marshall Plan

Question 4

This was the first military action of the Cold War.

Answer 4

Korean War

Question 5

This Air Force operation was a massive airlift to feed and fuel the people of West Berlin.

Answer 5

Operation Vittles

Question 6

This is a region under the political control of a distant country.

Answer 6

Colony

Question 7

This aircraft became SAC’s main bomber for over 20 years.

Answer 7

B-52

Question 8

This organization was formed in 1945 to maintain international peace.

Answer 8

United Nations

Question 9

The first secretary of the Air Force.

Answer 9

Symington

Question 10

This person broke the sound barrier in 1947

Answer 10

Yeager

Question 11

This Air Force command was the atomic weapons command.

Answer 11

Strategic Air Command (SAC)

Question 12

The year the National Security Act was signed.

Answer 12

1947

Question 13

This country entered the war on North Korea’s side in 1950.

Answer 13

China

Question 14

Who was the first jet ace in history?

Answer 14

Jabara

Question 15

What are rocket-propelled vehicles that carry a weapon?

Answer 15

Missile

Question 16

One of only four Airmen who earned the Medal of Honor during the Korean War.

Answer 16

Davis

Question 17

This was an alliance formed by Western countries to protect themselves against Soviet aggression.

Answer 17

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Question 18

This technology would shape the mission of the early United States Air Force.

Answer 18

Atomic Bomb

Question 19

Who did the United States wage the Cold War against?

Answer 19

Soviet Union

Question 20

This was the weapon of choice in the Korean War.

Answer 20

Fighter Airplanes

Question 21

This person was known as the first candy bomber.

Answer 21

Halvorsen

Question 22

This organization was created with the signing of the National Security Act.

Answer 22

National Military Establishment (NME)

Question 23

A war in which opposing sides try to avoid a worldwide war.

Answer 23

Limited war

Question 24

This is the name of the cease fire agreement for the Korean War.

Answer 24

Armistice

Question 25

This general was put in charge of Operation Vittles.

Answer 25

Tunner

Question 26

This multiple approach strategy would assure that the US could retaliate to the Soviet Union.

Answer 26

Triad