QUIZ- B2- CONFRONTATIONS AND CONFLICTS 1950-1975

Question 1

When was the Chinese Revolution, who was the new leader and what was his ideology

Answer 1

• 1949
• Mao
• Communist

Question 2

When was the Korean War and what sort of war was it for the USA?

Answer 2

• 1950-1953

- Proxy War

Question 3

Name the different types of nuclear weapons developed in the 1940s and 1050s by the USA and the USSR in the Nuclear Arms Race

Answer 3

• A-BOMB
• H-BOMB
• ICBM

Question 4

When did the Berlin Wall go up, where did the Berlin Crisis happen, and what happened?

Answer 4

• August 1961
• Checkpoint Charlie
• US and USSR tanks faced off against each other, nearly igniting WW111

Question 5

When was the Cuban Revolution, who was the President, and who became the new leader of Cuba

Answer 5

• 1959
• Batista
• Fidel Castro

Question 6

What was the failed invasion of Cuba (by exiles) called in 1961?

Answer 6

The Bay of Pigs invasion

Question 7

Describe the order of events of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 7

• USA had missiles in Turkey
• USA failed to remove Castro after The Bay of Pigs
• Castro looked for help from the USSR
• Khrushchev sent nuclear missiles to Cuba to defend it
• American U2 spy planes photo evidence of missile build up on Cuba
• USA blockades Cuba
• USSR turns around and withdraws missiles
• USA withdraws missiles from Turkey

Question 8

Give three reasons for the USA getting involved in the Vietnam War

Answer 8

• Military- Industrial complex
• Containment
• Accidentally slipped into it

Question 9

Give four reasons for the USA’s failure to win the Vietnam War

Answer 9

• VC strengths: Guerrilla warfare, Vietnamese civilian support for VC, supplies, commitment
• SUPPORT FOR THE WAR: media, inexperienced troops, peace movement, My Lai massacre
• USA WEAKNESSES: chemical weapons, bombing, search and destroy, Tet Offensive