The Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm Flashcards
What is Black Rain?
Radioactive debris that fell heavily for over an hour over a wide area leaving 66,000 dead!
Altitude the top of the atomic cloud reached
17,000 meters (10.1 Miles)
What convention decided what the world would look like after WWII?
Yalta Convention
Winston Churchill warned that a _____ ______ was descending through the middle of Europe.
Iron Curtain
What are Proxy Wars
Wars fought by allies rather than the country itself such as allies fighting for USSR during the cold war
When was NATO formed?
1949
When was Warsaw Pact formed?
1955
8 Countries in the Warsaw Pact - 1955
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union
Hand Carried Atomic Bomb
Davy Crockett
After dropping of the atomic bomb the _____ _____ reached a height of 17,000 Meters.
Atomic Cloud
Black Rain, otherwise known as _____ _____ fell heavily over a wide area after the bombing left 60,000 dead
Radioactive Debris
The preparation of nuclear arsenals and East-West competition during the Cold War led to policies of what?
MAD - Mutual assured destruction
First helicopters were used during which war?
Korea
Korean Conflict exposed what weakness?
reliance on bombs brought the neglect of basic infantry skills
What did North Korea Army utilize during the conflict?
Fluidity, surprise, and concealment
Armed conflict short of general war, exclusive in incidents, involving the overt engagement of the military forces of two or more nations
Limited War
Early Turning point of the Korean War
Amphibious landing on Inchon
What did the U.S impose on Cuba during the missile crisis?
A naval quarantine
How did the US military adapt to innovative and technical challenges during the Cold War due to nuclear arsenals and policies of MAD?
Limited Warfare was introduced to US doctrine
China’s military intervention in the Korean War lead caused the UN War aim in Korea to be changed to a?
A Negotiated Settlement
President Truman fired General MacArthur for what reasons?
- MacArthur wanted to use Nuke
- Truman wanted to avoid provoking soviets/ China
- Truman wanted to avoid an all-out war
Mosaic art of war
War that used all facets of power: Military, political, diplomatic, economic, and psychological
Last battle of the Indochina war?
Dien Bien Phu
Air forces used what in Operation Ranch Hand?
Agent Orange
Nixon wanted to do what during the Vietnam War?
Vietnamization
What Southeast Asian country was recognized as a free state as part of what nation’s territory?
Vietnam and France
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
NVA
President Nixon’s push for Vietnamization, the turning over of the war to the South Vietnam’s forces involved?
Pacification, Withdraw, Paris Pease talks, increase the size of the RVNAF
SCUDS
Surface to Surface missiles
The principle of war that best illustrates Desert Storm was?
Maneuver
Iraq’s invasion of its neighbor in August 1990 saw who driven into exile?
the Emir of Kuwait
True or False: The principle of War: Mass, best illustrates Desert Storm.
False - Maneuver
