CPush: The Cold War and Vietnam

All of the following were major International changes brought on by World War II EXCEPT:

Which major Allied conference took place in the suburbs of Berlin in July, 1945?

According to your textbook, what was the MAJOR difference between World War I and World War II

Whom did Truman name to represent the United States at the UN

The United Nations was organized on the absolute equality of all Nations.

The Potsdam Conference was the only time Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin met face to face

What did both FDR and Truman want Stalin to commit to at Yalta and Potsdam respecfully

What made Roosevelt's influence over Stalin at Yalta in February 1945 precarious?

The political systems of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War approached all of the following rights and issues differently EXCEPT:

Who gave the speech in Missouri on March 5, 1946 that stated "an iron curtain has descended across the continent."

According to your textbook, all of the following were True of President Truman EXCEPT:

Which two countries, threatened by Soviet Agression, were at the center of Truman's call for $400 million in aid that formed the basis of the Truman Doctrine?

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

On June 25th, 1950, North Korean forces attacked across the _ parallell.

Who won the civil war in China that followed World War 2?

All of the following were short term outcomes of the Korean War EXCEPT:

How come the Soviet Union did not veto the UN resolution to assist South Korea?

What US commander was in charge of all UN troops defending South Korea?

All of the following were long term outcomes of the war EXCEPT:

According to your textbook, who did critics within the United States blame?

General MacArthur advised President Truman to both invade China and use Nuclear Weapons to win the Korean War.

All of the following were events that ushered in the Red Scare in the late 1940's EXCEPT:

What famous 1956 film expressed American's fears of invasion and infiltration during the era of the Red Scare?

As both superpowers created a stockpile of nuclear weapons (60,000 at its highest point), both were certain to lose or be wiped out if a nuclear war broke out.

Used as a concept of deterrence (prevention) this term implies that a response from an attacked country would be so great that the attacker would be annihilated

Associated in your textbook with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, this is the idea of using overwhelming force or nuclear weapons to heighten the stakes involved for all parties.

The idea that if one country falls to communism - it will trigger the collapse of others around it.

Period of in US History after the second world war where the fear of communism began to affect both politics and social decisions.

Blacklist

Where did the United States test most of their early hydrogen bombs?

In response to the troubling news that the Soviets had successfully tested an atomic bomb, what did Truman order the Atomic Energy Commission to build?

What did McCarthy use in his dramatic coming out event (February 1950) in Wheeling, West Virginia, that shocked Americans and led to his meteoric rise and fall in politics?

What was the most famous group of "left wingers" targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HAUC)?

What act passed by the Truman Administration targeted the communist party by making it unlawful to teach or advocate for the violent overthrow of government?

During the Red Scare, what famous American was blacklisted by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)?

What news in early September, 1949 shook US leaders?

WHEN was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

Which President became forever connected with the Domino Theory?

Who was the Communist leader of the Vietminh?

Which events directly led to the building of the Berlin Wall?

What was the Gulf of Tonkin Crisis?

After Kennedy took office as President, he decreased defense spending.

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?  How did Kennedy use both tough measures and diplomacy to handle the crisis?

Where was a multi-national conference held to end the war in IndoChina?

We actually get the "bikini" in the bikini swimsuit from an Atomic Test.

How many soldiers did Kennedy send to Vietnam?

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave President Johnson the power to wage war in Vietnam without ever needing to go back to Congress to ask for a declaration of war.

Which Western Power controled Indochina as a colony before world war II and began a war with the Vietminh to take it back after World War II?

Secretary of Defense Robert _ and General William _ counseled President Johnson to escalate the war in Vietnam and send more troops.

All of the following caused President Johnson to increase troop strength in Vietnam EXCEPT:

jellied gasoline dropped in large canisters

a herbicide used to defoliate forest areas that might hide guerillas

used as an analogy to America's situation in Vietnam: difficult to exit

South Vietnamese communist rebels that waged a guerrilla war against the government of South Vietnam

What two sides or camps began to develop at home?

What was the name of the first US sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam?

What two universities led the antiwar movement?

Who won the presidential election of 1968?

Clark Clifford, new Secretary of Defense, after an instensive study of the military situation in Vietnam, advised the President to continue to fight and believed the military could win the war with more troops committed.

Two months before the Tet Offensive President Johnson announced he would not seek a negotiated settlement with North Vietnam and would not run for a second Presidential term.

What did the 26th Amendment do?

Who were the candidates in the 1968 Presidential Election?

Minnesota senator Eugene McCarthy was against the Vietnam War.

The "Silent Majority" in 1968 was.

At what age did men in the U.S. have to register for the draft in 1965?

All of the following were true of the TET offensive EXCEPT: