the cold war--after quiz 2

Question 1

After the Indochina War, Vietnam split into free (South) and Communists (North) sections along the __ parallel

Answer 1

17th

Question 2

peoples Republic of china date

Answer 2

1949

Question 3

communist soldiers from North Vietnam who invaded the South and eventually the rest of indochina

Answer 3

Viet Cong
(led by Ho Chi Minh)

Question 3

a main North Vietnamese invasion route and supply trail

Answer 3

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 4

supposedly attacked two american naval ships

Answer 4

Viet Cong

Question 5

allowed America to join the conflict in Vietnam in 1965

Answer 5

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 6

led first American combat troops sent to South Vietnam

Answer 6

William C. Westmoreland

Question 7

date first American combat troops were sent to South Vietnam led by William C. Westmoreland

Answer 7

1965

Question 8

large-scale Northern Vietnamese cities and several US military installations

Answer 8

Tet Offensive

Question 9

date America withdrew from the Vietnam war

Answer 9

1973

Question 10

By 1975 the Viet Cong conquered Saigon and __________ surrendered

Answer 10

South Vietnam

Question 11

Edward Teller developed the ______ bomb

Answer 11

hydrogen

Question 11

Saigan was renamed to _______

Answer 11

Ho Chi Minh City

Question 12

“Father of the Hydrogen bomb”

Answer 12

Edward Teller

Question 13

opposed Edward Teller’s research

Answer 13

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 14

communist dictator of spain

Answer 14

Juan Carlos

Question 15

Nations and people around the world opposed the nuclear blackmail used by the South Union

Answer 15

Anti-Nuclear Movement

Question 16

nations opposed nuclear blackmail; Many promoted the _________ movement in America

Answer 16

nuclear freeze movement

Question 17

worked to include Communist China in the United Nations

Answer 17

. Henry Kissinger

Question 18

French word that means a lessening or decrease of hostility between nations

Answer 18

Detente

Question 19

became dictator of the Soviet Union in 1964

Answer 19

Leonid Brezhnev

Question 20

allowed the South Union more access to technology and weapons from the West

Answer 20

Helsinki Accords

Question 21

laus and cambodia

Answer 21

french indochina

Question 22

dictator of north vietnam

Answer 22

Ho Chi Minh

Question 23

Ho Chi Minh's men

Answer 23

viet minh

Question 24

attack on Vietnam holiday

Answer 24

Tet Offensive

Question 25

warned the West to not be too trusting of the Soviet Union’s decreased hostility

Answer 25

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Question 26

first man-made satellite

Answer 26

Sputnik 1

Question 26

treaty of 1972 and 1978 that “reduced” nuclear weapons in Russia and America

Answer 26

Salt I and Salt II (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

Question 27

first man in space

Answer 27

Yuri Gagarin

Question 28

"race" between Russia and america

Answer 28

The Space Race

Question 29

mission of the first moon landing. Date?

Answer 29

Apollo 11 1969

Question 30

first man on the moon

Answer 30

Neil Armstrong in 1969

Question 31

conservative leader that became England’s first female Prime Minister (1979); longest ruling British leader in the 20th century

Answer 31

Margaret Thatcher

Question 32

England and Argentina fought for control of the Falkland Islands. Who won?

Answer 32

Falklands War. England

Question 33

an offensive policy to stop communism before it attacked a nation; applied in Nicaragua and Grenada

Answer 33

Reagan Doctrine

Question 34

Reagan Doctrine was applied in _____ and _____

Answer 34

Nicaragua and Grenada

Question 35

nuclear plant in Russia that had a reactor meltdown in 1986; still uninhabitable today

Answer 35

Chernobyl

Question 36

system of space-age weaponry designed to destroy enemy missiles in flight

Answer 36

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Question 37

freedom movement in Poland that was brutally crushed

Answer 37

Solidarity Movement

Question 38

New leader of the South Union

Answer 38

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 39

Led the South Union into a period of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness)

Answer 39

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 40

Mikhail Gorbachev led the South Union into a period of ______ (restructuring) and _____ (openness)

Answer 40

perestroika (restructuring) glasnost (openness)

Question 41

Date East and West Germany were officially reunited

Answer 41

October 3, 1990

Question 41

date the Berlin Wall fell

Answer 41

1989

Question 42

dictator of Romania overthrown in 1989

Answer 42

Nicolae Ceausescu

Question 42

demonstration for freedom in China that was brutally crushed

Answer 42

Tiananmen Square

Question 42

By 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist; former Soviet Republics banded together to create the __________

Answer 42

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS

Question 43

the first elected President in Russia’s history

Answer 43

Boris Yeltsin