The Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm

Question 1

What is Black Rain?

Answer 1

Radioactive debris that fell heavily for over an hour over a wide area leaving 66,000 dead!

Question 2

Altitude the top of the atomic cloud reached

Answer 2

17,000 meters (10.1 Miles)

Question 3

What convention decided what the world would look like after WWII?

Answer 3

Yalta Convention

Question 4

Winston Churchill warned that a _____ ______ was descending through the middle of Europe.

Answer 4

Iron Curtain

Question 5

What are Proxy Wars

Answer 5

Wars fought by allies rather than the country itself such as allies fighting for USSR during the cold war

Question 5

When was NATO formed?

Answer 5

1949

Question 5

When was Warsaw Pact formed?

Answer 5

1955

Question 5

8 Countries in the Warsaw Pact - 1955

Answer 5

Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union

Question 6

Hand Carried Atomic Bomb

Answer 6

Davy Crockett

Question 7

After dropping of the atomic bomb the _____ _____ reached a height of 17,000 Meters.

Answer 7

Atomic Cloud

Question 8

Black Rain, otherwise known as _____ _____ fell heavily over a wide area after the bombing left 60,000 dead

Answer 8

Radioactive Debris

Question 9

The preparation of nuclear arsenals and East-West competition during the Cold War led to policies of what?

Answer 9

MAD - Mutual assured destruction

Question 10

First helicopters were used during which war?

Answer 10

Korea

Question 11

Korean Conflict exposed what weakness?

Answer 11

reliance on bombs brought the neglect of basic infantry skills

Question 12

What did North Korea Army utilize during the conflict?

Answer 12

Fluidity, surprise, and concealment

Question 13

Armed conflict short of general war, exclusive in incidents, involving the overt engagement of the military forces of two or more nations

Answer 13

Limited War

Question 14

Early Turning point of the Korean War

Answer 14

Amphibious landing on Inchon

Question 15

What did the U.S impose on Cuba during the missile crisis?

Answer 15

A naval quarantine

Question 16

How did the US military adapt to innovative and technical challenges during the Cold War due to nuclear arsenals and policies of MAD?

Answer 16

Limited Warfare was introduced to US doctrine

Question 17

China’s military intervention in the Korean War lead caused the UN War aim in Korea to be changed to a?

Answer 17

A Negotiated Settlement

Question 18

President Truman fired General MacArthur for what reasons?

Answer 18

• MacArthur wanted to use Nuke
• Truman wanted to avoid provoking soviets/ China
• Truman wanted to avoid an all-out war

Question 19

Mosaic art of war

Answer 19

War that used all facets of power: Military, political, diplomatic, economic, and psychological

Question 20

Last battle of the Indochina war?

Answer 20

Dien Bien Phu

Question 21

Air forces used what in Operation Ranch Hand?

Answer 21

Agent Orange

Question 22

Nixon wanted to do what during the Vietnam War?

Answer 22

Vietnamization

Question 23

What Southeast Asian country was recognized as a free state as part of what nation’s territory?

Answer 23

Vietnam and France

Question 24

During the battle of la Drang Valley the ____ ____ ___ learned that guerrilla operations, rather than an attempted force on force encounter, was more effective in fighting the technologically superior and well-armed US Army

Answer 24

NVA

Question 25

President Nixon’s push for Vietnamization, the turning over of the war to the South Vietnam’s forces involved?

Answer 25

Pacification, Withdraw, Paris Pease talks, increase the size of the RVNAF

Question 26

SCUDS

Answer 26

Surface to Surface missiles

Question 27

The principle of war that best illustrates Desert Storm was?

Answer 27

Maneuver

Question 28

Iraq’s invasion of its neighbor in August 1990 saw who driven into exile?

Answer 28

the Emir of Kuwait

Question 29

True or False: The principle of War: Mass, best illustrates Desert Storm.

Answer 29

False - Maneuver