Cold War

Question 1

Mao Zedong

Answer 1

Former President of the People’s Republic of China

Communist

Question 2

Great Leap Forward

Answer 2

Mao implemented a program in 1958 to organize all farms into collectives
Fail, millions of people died

Question 3

Cultural Revolution

Answer 3

Mao urging students to quit school and wage war on anyone who oppressed communism

Question 4

Red Guards

Answer 4

Students organized into an army

Attacked, imprisoned, and killed those suspected that don’t agree with Mao

Question 5

Four Modernizations Programs

Answer 5

Progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science

Question 6

Tiananmen Square Incident

Answer 6

10,000 chinese students protest china

Gov. sent tanks and soldiers to kill hundreds of innocent people

Question 7

Deng Xiaoping

Answer 7

New Chinese leader after Enlai

Question 8

38th parallel

Answer 8

The 38th parallel north formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War

Question 9

17th parallel

Answer 9

practical political boundary between North and South Vietnam.

Question 10

stalemate

Answer 10

a situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible.

Question 11

Agent Orange

Answer 11

Bum out, jungle cover

dangerous side effects on civilians like birth defects

Question 12

Douglas McArthur

Answer 12

commander of the 15 UN forces

Question 13

demilitarized zone

Answer 13

an area, agreed upon between the parties to an armed conflict, which cannot be occupied or used for military purposes by any party to the conflict

Question 14

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 14

Formed a new guerilla army including some south Vietnamese called the Vietcong
Led North

Question 15

Vietcong

Answer 15

a member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces

Question 16

Gulf of Tonkin

Answer 16

Johnson claims US destroyers were fired apon, US thinks its an easy war
Us were ambushed, booby trapped, and Vietcong used guerilla tactics to blend in with civillians

Question 17

Vietnamization

Answer 17

Official pullout of American soldiers from Vietnam in 1969

Question 18

Domino Theory

Answer 18

if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect

Question 19

Attrition

Answer 19

US fought a war of attrition

the action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something

Question 20

Containment

Answer 20

aimed at stopping the spread of Communism and keeping it “contained” and isolated within its current borders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics