First Trimester, Second Test, 10th Grade

Question 1

How did the policies of “limited warfare” and containment bring defeat in both the Korean War and the Vietnam War? Explain with two sentences.

Answer 1

• It affected to do not use all the military because the masses of the opposing country were big and didn’t have the resources to attack them.
• Prolonged the conflict needlessly and claimed the lives of a lot of Americans.

Question 2

Explain with two complete sentences Vietnamization?

Answer 2

-It was a policy proclaimed by the President Nixon
-It began gradually to withdraw U.S. troops in June and replacing them with South Vietnamese forces.

Question 3

Explain with three sentences the situation behind the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

Answer 3

 United States became more involved in South Asia, on July 1964 Two U.S destroyers were allegedly fired by a North Vietnamese torpedo boat.

• The U.S naval and air forces retaliated by sinking two of the North Vietnames vessels, and bombing their bases.
• After a second attack, president Lyndon B. asked the congress for power to prevent further attacks and to attack back.

Question 4

How did the Vietnam War become a “no-win” conflict? Explain with two sentences.

Answer 4

• By rejecting the permission to North Vietnam to invade Laos and Cambodia, which gave peace and calm to communists causing a state of no-win.
• The conflict ended wih no actual deinifition of who had won the war, it was said that North Vietnam won because of the Tet Offensive but neither part got what they wanted.

Question 5

What action did the Iranians take against Americans in Tehran?

Answer 5

-Captured the U.S embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage that wouldn’t be released until 1981

Question 6

Explain with two sentences how did Laos and Cambodia become involved with Communist aggression?

Answer 6

-Laos: when the Vietminh-backed Pathet Lao and staged a rebellion against the Laotian government.
-Cambodia: when the North-Vietnamese began to use the country as a base for attacks to South Vietnam.

Question 7

Why was the Camp David Accords agreement significant? Explain with two sentences?

Answer 7

• It was significant because it was the first time in 2000 years that Jews and Arabs sat down together and negotiated a peace treaty.
• In this treaty, Israel agreed to withdraw completely from the Sinai Peninsula.

Question 8

What was the main goal of Yassir Arafat under the PLO? Explain with one sentence?

Answer 8

-To establish a Palestinian state in Israel through force an terror.

Question 9

How did the Korean War change in November 1950? Explain with two sentences?

Answer 9

• It became more complicated when 300 000 communist Chinese, the Red Chinese Army of 1 million troops invaded North Korea.
• The American forces were outnumbered and ended exhausted so they were forced to retreat.

Question 10

Why was the OPEC formed in 1960?

Answer 10

• It was made to control the supply and price of oil

Question 11

What was the outcome of the Korean War? Explain with three sentences.

Answer 11

• a war fought on the Korean Peninsula from 1950 to 1953 after troops from communist North Korea, armed with Soviet weapons, invaded democratic South Korea
• Prompting the United States and the United Nations to send forces to support South Korea and fight to unify the Korean Peninsula into one democratic nation, which in turn prompted China to join the war on North Korea’s side
• At war’s end, the peninsula remained divided into two nations

Question 12

Who was Douglas MacArthur and what did he do? *

Answer 12

• A World War II hero, he was a supreme commander of all US and UN forces.
• He was called by the president to dispatch troops to Korea from Japan.

Question 13

What happened in 1974?

Answer 13

• The Yom Kippur War finally ended

Question 14

3. Who were Menachem Begin and Anwar el-Sadat?

Answer 14

-Menachem Begin: Israeli Prime Minister
• Anwar el-Sadat: Egyptian president
• Shocked the world when they met with US President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in the US to discuss a peaceful statement of Israeli-Egyptian disputes.

Question 15

Meaning for OPEC:

Answer 15

• Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Question 16

Who was Saddam Hussein?

Answer 16

• The dictator of Iraq in 1979.

* Member of the Sunni Muslim that opposed the Shi’ites

Question 17

What is Viet Cong?

Answer 17

• Communist guerrilas of North Vietnam in 1957

Question 18

What is Shi’ites?

Answer 18

• A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali and his descendants as the legitimate successors to Muhammad

Question 19

Who is Mohammed Reza Shah?

Answer 19

-Was the Shah of Iran from 16 September, 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution 11 February 1979

Question 20

Name given for “Day of Atonement/Jewish highest holy day:

Answer 20

• Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year in Judaism.

Question 21

In what year did Saigon fall?

Answer 21

30 April 1975

Question 22

When did the Yom Kippur War start and end?

Answer 22

-1973-1974

Question 23

In what year were U.S. troops sent to South Vietnam?

Answer 23

1965

Question 24

In what year was a cease-fire agreement signed?

Answer 24

1973

Question 25

Name that was given to Saigon:

Answer 25

Ho Chi Minh City

Question 26

Name given to the Ho Chin forces

Answer 26

Vietminh

Question 27

Total amount of money spent by the United States on the Korean War

Answer 27

• $67 billion

Question 28

The line that divides North and South Korea is called

Answer 28

38th parallel

Question 29

When did the Korean War start and end?

Answer 29

-1950-1953.

Question 30

Name of the leader of the Communist regime that was installed by the Soviets in North Korea

Answer 30

-Kim II Sung

Question 31

Who attacked Israel in 1973 and why?

Answer 31

-Egypt and Syria.

Because the onslaught occurred at the same time of the Jewish highest Holy day

Question 32

Two reasons why North Korea planned on invading South Korea and what happened whenthey did?

Answer 32

• North Koreans troops blasted their way across the 38thParallel and invaded South Korea.
• North Koreans forces quickly overcame the weak South Korean Resistance.
• South Koreans were forced to retreat to a battle line in the southeastern corner of Korea, the Pusan Perimeter.

Question 33

Who was elected president of the Republic of South Korea?

Answer 33

-Syngman Rhee.

Question 34

What American general was placed in command of all U.S and UN forces in Korea?

Answer 34

-General Douglas MacArthur.

Question 35

What was the agreement between the USA and the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conferenceand what happened?

Answer 35

• Agreed to allow the Koreans to form a unified, independent country after the elections.
• The Soviets refused to permit free elections in North Korea and instead set up a Communist puppet regime and South Korea Americans allowed the people to hold free elections and choose representatives to a national assembly.