TEST 1

Question 0

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 0

help countries fight against Communism

Question 1

What was the Cold War?

Answer 1

Fight against communism (Soviet wanted communism and to spread it, US and Soviet had a tense relationship following WWII, never really any fighting)

Question 2

What did Truman do?

Answer 2

Sent aid to Greece and turkey in hopes of them not falling to communism, and established the Marshall Plan to help rebuild Europe

Question 3

What was containment?

Answer 3

containing spread of communism

Question 4

What was Domino Theory?

Answer 4

fear of communism spreading (Eisenhower)

Question 5

What was public opinion during the Cold War?

Answer 5

Propaganda! Films, fictional books about spies, television and commercials

Question 6

How did the Cold War end?

Answer 6

Soviet Union dissolved eventually in. The 80s, and communism dissolved away, US won because they were able to show their system could survive throughout war

Question 7

What was the Vietnam War?

Answer 7

Fight against communism (North wanted all of Vietnam to be under communist rule)

Question 8

What was the Geneva Accords?

Answer 8

an agreement that divided Vietnam into two zones, and US created a govt. in South Vietnam to prevent a communist takeover; the US did not sign or want to be associated with it (Eisenhower)

Question 9

What was the Strategic Hamlet Program?

Answer 9

plan by South Vietnam and US to combat the Communist insurgency by means of population transfer

Question 11

What was Gulf of Tonkin?

Answer 11

US ships were attacked, used this attack to get congress approval to go deeper in the Cold War

Question 12

What did Johnson and Nixon want?

Answer 12

To keep US’s credibility and that meant not withdrawing from the war

Question 13

What was the Nixon Doctrine?

Answer 13

support allies with supply military supplies

Question 14

What was Vietnamization?

Answer 14

a policy to end US involvement in war, reduce number of US combat troops, and increase military supplies and South Vietnam forces involvement

Question 15

What was US’s public opinion during Vietnam War?

Answer 15

Protests against war, music for the war EX: country Joe and the Fish, music for the war EX: Ballad of the Green Beret

Question 16

What was the Peace Paris Accords?

Answer 16

“Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam” (1973) officially ended direct US involvement in Vietnam war

Question 16

How did the Vietnam war end? And how does it relate to Cold War

Answer 16

Saigon fell to Viet Cong, they couldn’t hold their own once US was fully out of South Vietnam. The loss can just be considered a battle during the Cold War since we won the Cold War. It was a battle we fought to try and keep communism from spreading but did not succeed, so in all it was part of the cold war because of the reason the U.S. Fought in the Cold War

Question 17

How did the Cold War end? And how did the Vietnam war?

Answer 17

Lost Vietnam, won Cold War