Military History- Cold War/Korea/Vietnam/Iraq

Question 1

Atomic bomb has max temp of ___ degrees C at burst point. 15-m fireball formed in ___. 300,000 degrees C expands to max size in ___. Cloud reached height of ___. ___ fell for an hour leaving 66,000 dead.

Answer 1

several million
.1 milisecond
1 sec
10.1 miles
black rain

Question 2

3 Allied leaders met at the ___ and decided what the world would look like after WWII.

Answer 2

Yalta Convention

Question 3

MAD (Cold War)

Answer 3

Mutually Assured Destruction

Question 4

NATO (war)

Answer 4

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 5

The ___ was signed in 1955 in direct response to the decision to allow ___ to join NATO, and allowed for the Red Army to be based in member States (East Germany and others), unified command and mutual assistance

Answer 5

Warsaw pact, West Germany

Question 6

In 1946, ___ warned that a ___ was descending through the middle of Europe.

Answer 6

Winston Churchill, Iron Curtain

Question 7

___ asserted in 1946 that WWII was an unavoidable and inevitable consequence of ___ and implied that such a War might reoccur.

Answer 7

Joseph Stalin, Capitalist Imperialism

Question 8

USSR (Soviet Union), ended in ___

Answer 8

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1991

Question 9

___ , led by ___, was the first combat formation to deploy from Japan to South Korea during the Korean War. They were greatly outnumbered.

Answer 9

Task Force Smith, Colonel Charles Bradford Smith

Question 10

The ___ was introduced in the ___ War, mostly for medivac

Answer 10

helicopter, Korean

Question 11

On June 25th, 1950, the DPRK opened fire on the RK along the __ Parallel. This started the ___ War.

Answer 11

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, 38th, Korean

Question 12

UN troops and materials were supplied to South Korea through the Port of ___. Gen ___ wanted to use Nuclear Weapons in Korea. President ___ relieved him to avoid all-out War. US, North Korea and China sign ___ and North and South Korea sign ___

Answer 12

Pusan, MacArthur, Truman, Armistace, non-aggression treaty

Question 13

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of ___, ___ decided to place intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba with the permission of ___. President ___ discovered what was happening and threatened Soviet Union and placed Naval quarantine around Cuba. Soviet Union removed the missiles.

Answer 13

1962, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Kennedy.

Question 14

In 1945, following surrender of Japan to Allies, ___ and his People’s Congress create the National Liberation Committee of ___ and declare independence from France.

Answer 14

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Question 15

4-star General ____ led Vietnam’s Armies for decades.

Answer 15

Vo Nguyen Giap

Question 16

In 1954, The Battle of ___ was a major turning point for Vietnamese over the ___ and ___ forces who were under constant fire and flooded by monsoon rains.

Answer 16

Dien Bien Phu, French Airborne, Foreign Legion

Question 17

____ became Prime Minister of South Vietnam in 1954. America’s objective in the War was to preserve an independent, stable, non-communist South Vietnam.

Answer 17

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 18

Americans struggled in Vietnam because of the Viet Cong’s ___ tactics. Americans utilized ___ which made it easy to deploy and evacuate troops in the middle of battle.

Answer 18

guerrilla, helicopter

Question 19

In 1962, The US Air Force launched Operation ___, denying Vietcong use of roads and trails and destroying over 10% of vegetation (food and cover) by spraying ___

Answer 19

Ranch Hand, Agent Orange

Question 20

The 3 stages of revolutionary warfare, defensive, equilibrium, and counteroffensive was inspired by ___ written by Mao Zedong

Answer 20

On Protracted War

Question 21

The _____ was approved by Congress and allowed President ___ to wage all-out War against North Vietnam without securing a formal Declaration of War from Congress. This was in response to North Vietnamese firing torpedoes at US Destroyer ___

Answer 21

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Lyndon Johnson, USS Maddox

Question 22

Operations ___ and ___ were sustained air/bombing raids against North Vietcong.

Answer 22

Flaming Dart, Rolling Thunder

Question 23

What was another name for the National Liberation Front? (Vietnam)

Answer 23

Vietcong

Question 24

What years did the Vietnam war take place?

Answer 24

1954-1975 (US withdrew in 1973)

Question 25

Operation ___ was the largest US operation of the Vietnam war.

Answer 25

Junction City

Question 26

In 1968, The ___ was the largest operation of the Vietcong involving the raiding of 100 cities. This crushed US morale.

Answer 26

Tet Offensive

Question 27

Vietnamization:

Answer 27

Under Nixon, US withdrawal from Vietnam, tried to help SVN fight for themselves.

Question 28

Easter offensive:

Answer 28

1972, NVA offensive with little gain and high casualties. Nixon declared Vietnamization a success

Question 29

Nixon was besieged by the ___ scandal. Congress cut funding for RVN for FY ___

Answer 29

Watergate, 1974

Question 30

Anticipating the fall of ___ to Communist forces, US President ___ announces US involvement in Vietnam War is finished.

Answer 30

Saigon, Gerald Ford

Question 31

Major helicopter during the Vietnam War:

2 other major tech advances were the ___ and ___

Answer 31

Bell UH-1
smart bomb
infrared

Question 32

On Aug 2, 1990, Iraqi forces, led by ___ , invaded ___.

Answer 32

Saddam Hussein, Kuwait

Question 33

The overall objective in ___ was to liberate Kuwait.

Answer 33

Operation Desert Storm

Question 34

Who was the commander of CENTCOM during the Gulf War?

Answer 34

General Schwarzkopf

Question 35

What technological advancements were first used during the Gulf War?

Answer 35

GPS
computer viruses (against air defense)
J-STARS
stealth technology

Question 36

Describe Coalition’s Aerial Attack during Gulf War:

Answer 36

Successful attack on Baghdad
Used AH-64 Apache
F-15s and F-117s 
Tomahawk missiles from ships
computer viruses for air defense

Question 37

What was the “left hook” ? (Gulf War)

Answer 37

The final 4-day assault on Iraq
Over 500,000 troops, Tanks, and Aircraft
cut off highway between Kuwait and Baghdad.

Question 38

J-STARS (plane)

Answer 38

Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System