World History Quiz Chapter 26 part 3

Question 1

Which part of Vietnam was the free side?

Answer 1

South

Question 2

Which part of Vietnam is the Communist side?

Answer 2

North

Question 3

communist soldiers from North Vietnam who invaded the South (1957) & eventually the rest of Indochina led by Ho Chi Minh

Answer 3

Viet Cong

Question 4

What parallel was Vietnam divided from?

Answer 4

17th Parallel

Question 5

a main North Vietnamese invasion route & supply trail

Answer 5

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 6

In 1964, the Viet Cong supposedly attacked 2 American naval ships

Answer 6

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Question 7

What year were the 1st American combat troops sent to South Vietnam led by William C. Westmoreland

Answer 7

1965

Question 8

large-scale Northern Vietnamese attack against 30 Vietnamese cities & several U.S. military installations

Answer 8

Tet Offensive

Question 9

Saigon was renamed into what city?

Answer 9

Ho Chi Minh City

Question 10

developed the hydrogen bomb in 1952

Answer 10

Edward Teller

Question 11

Who opposed Edward Teller’s research?

Answer 11

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 12

a lessening or decrease of hostility between nations; a French word

Answer 12

Detente

Question 13

worked to include Communist China in the United Nations (1971)

Answer 13

Henry Kissinger

Question 14

became dictator of the Soviet Union in 1964

Answer 14

Leonid Brezhnev

Question 15

allowed the Soviet Union more access to technology & weapons from the West

Answer 15

Helsinki Accords

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Salt I & Salt II (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

Question 18

1st man-made satellite

Answer 18

Sputnik 1

Question 19

1st man in space

Answer 19

Yuri Gagarin

Question 20

mission of the 1st moon landing (Neil Armstrong, 1969)

Answer 20

Apollo 11

Question 21

conservative leader that became England’s 1st female Prime Minister (1979)

Answer 21

Margaret Thatcher

Question 22

became president of America in 1981

Answer 22

Ronald Reagan

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Reagan Doctrine

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Chernobyl

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Question 26

freedom movement in Poland that was brutally crushed

Answer 26

Solidarity Movement

Question 27

resurrection

Answer 27

Perestroika

Question 28

openess

Answer 28

Glasnost