Target 2: Cold War

Question 0

Which best explains how the Vietnam war ended?

Answer 0

The Americans withdrew without victory, and after we left the communists took over South Vietnam

Question 1

What was East Germany/Soviet Union most likely trying to accomplish with the Berlin blockade?

Answer 1

convince the Allies to give up West Berlin and let them have it

Question 2

What is the relationship between the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the War Powers Act?

Answer 2

The War Powers Act was an attempt to reverse the Gulf of Tonkin resolution

Question 3

Which best explains why the US chose to get involved in the Korean War?

Answer 3

Like the Truman Doctrine/Containment Policy called for, we were providing aid to a country that was in danger of falling to communism

Question 4

characteristics of guerrilla warfare?

Answer 4

• Often catches the enemy by surprise
• often uses similar tactics to terrorism
• attacks are done by small groups
• uses hit and run tactics
• often involves ambushes and sabotage

Question 5

What bothered people about escalation in the Vietnam war?

Answer 5

We kept adding people without seeing the improvements

Question 6

What was the outcome of the Korean War?

Answer 6

A cease-fire was signed keeping the border close to where it was before the war

Question 7

What was the Vietnam war about?

Answer 7

Trying to stop Vietnam from being reunified under a communist government

Question 8

What was the role of the United States in the Bay of Pigs invasion?

Answer 8

The CIA trained people who did the invasion and promised some support

Question 9

What did the war powers act do?

Answer 9

Limit how long the President can send troops into combat

Question 10

What was the Berlin Wall a symbol of in the Cold War?

Answer 10

showed the lengths communists would go to control their people and prevent them from leaving

Question 11

How did the US and our Allies respond to the Berlin blockade?

Answer 11

We sent materials in by plane

Question 12

Why did the Korean War start?

Answer 12

North Korea invaded South Korea

Question 13

Domino theory

Answer 13

every country that falls to communism will lead to countries around it falling to communism until communism spreads throughout the world

Question 14

What did the gulf of Tonkin resolution do?

Answer 14

Gave the President basically unlimited power to send troops into combat in other countries

Question 15

What did Kennedy decide to do when he learned there were Soviet Missiles in Cuba?

Answer 15

He out a quarantine around Cuba until the Soviet Union removed the missiles

Question 16

Who tried to overthrow Fidel Castro, the leader of Cuba, in the Bay of Pigs invasion?

Answer 16

Cubans who fled Cuba because they didn’t support Fidel Castro

Question 17

What was East Germany/Soviet Union most likely trying to accomplish by building the Berlin wall?

Answer 17

Prevent east Germany from moving to west Germany

Question 18

When Germany divided which side was communist

Answer 18

East Germany

Question 19

What did East Germany and the Soviet Union do to try to prevent East Germans from escaping into West Germany?

Answer 19

Built a large wall to make it harder for people to get into the city

Question 20

correctly state a cause/effect relationship

Answer 20

• The economy of West Berlin doing better than the economy of East Berlin is a cause of the Berlin Wall.
• People trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin was a cause of the Berlin Wall
• The Soviet Union wanting the West to give up West Berlin was a cause of the Berlin Blockade
• The Berlin Blockade caused the Berlin Airlift

Question 21

Berlin Wall or blockade first?

Answer 21

Berlin blockade

Question 22

Which events lead to the soviets putting missiles in Cuba?

Answer 22

• The Soviet Union was upset that the US had missiles in Turkey which was a similar distance from the Soviet Union as Cuba was from the US
• Cuba felt threatened because the US had helped plan an invasion after it became communist
• Khruschev thought Kennedy was weak

Question 23

Which American President had to decide what to do about the Soviet missiles in Cuba?

Answer 23

John F. Kennedy

Question 24

Which Soviet leader put missiles in Cuba leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 24

Nikita Kruschev

Question 25

Event in Korean War that happened first

Answer 25

North Korea invaded South Korea and forced the South Koreans down to the Pusan Perimeter

Question 26

Second event in Korean War

Answer 26

with help from the UN, South Korea pushed the North out and then invaded North Korea

Question 27

3rd event in Korean War

Answer 27

as UN/S. Korean forces conquered much of North Korea China got involved to help North Korea

Question 28

4th event that happened in the Korean War

Answer 28

North Korea and China pushed South Koreans out and took over part of South Korea

Question 29

5th event in the Korean War

Answer 29

UN and South Koreans pushed North Korean and Chinese troops out of South Korea

Question 30

Last event in Korean War

Answer 30

the two sides fought along the 38th parallel for several years with each side gaining and then losing small amounts of land

Question 31

Status of Korea today

Answer 31

It remains divided with 1/2 communist and 1/2 not, a cease-fire stopped the fighting of the Korean war, but an official peace treaty was never signed and the border is still considerable tension along the border

Question 32

Who was the General who planned the Inchon invasion to turn things around in the first part of the Korean war before being fired for insubordination later in the war?

Answer 32

Douglas McArthur