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The Big Practice Test
part 4
The U.S. Since WWII
Chuck
Norris
says
“Kick the
SOL in
the rear”
The Cold War
What was the guiding principle of the American
foreign policy throughout the Cold War where
nations should not roll back communism but keep it
from spreading and resist communist aggression in
other nations?
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Truman Doctrine
Fair Deal
Marshall Plan
Monroe Doctrine
What was formed near the end of World
War II to create a body for the nations of
the world to try to prevent future global
wars?
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NATO
United Nations
OPEC
Truman Doctrine
What was the result of the Korean War?
• North and South Korea became one under a
democratic government.
• North and South Korea became one under a
communist government.
• North Korea and South Korea stayed divided at the
17th parallel with North Korea under a communist
government and South Korea free of communist
occupation.
• North Korea and South Korea stayed divided at the
38th parallel with North Korea under a communist
government and South Korea free of communist
occupation.
Who played on Americans fear of
communism by recklessly accusing many
American governmental officials and citizens
of being communists with flimsy or no
evidence?
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Joseph McCarthy
Douglas MacArthur
Robert McNamara
Earl Warren
What agreement was made between the
Soviet Union and its satellite nations in
Western Europe?
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Berlin Wall
Yalta Agreement
Great Society
Warsaw Pact
Who was NOT convicted of spying for the
Soviet Union or giving them our plans for
nuclear weapons?
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Ethel Rosenberg
Alger Hiss
Julius Rosenberg
Joseph McCarthy
What type of government was created in
West Germany when it resumed selfgovernment after Allied occupation?
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Communism
Democracy
Oligarchy
Monarchy
Who was president when the U.S. adopted
the policy of massive retaliation?
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President Nixon
President Truman
President Eisenhower
President Kennedy
What nation was aiding Cuba with tanks,
jets, and missiles?
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USSR
Vietnam
Korea
China
The domino theory was a foreign policy that
proposed which of the following arguments?
• Foreign policy in Asia was a game.
• If the United States colonized one Asian country,
then the Asian trade market would open
dramatically.
• If a communist revolution were to succeed in one
Asian country, then other nearby nations would also
turn to communism.
• If one Asian country were to become a democracy,
then other nearby nations would also become
democracies.
Who said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this
wall" as well as increased America's military
and economic pressure on the Soviet Union?
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Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
George Bush
Which is NOT a true about how the threat
of a nuclear war affected Americans?
• Schools practiced drills to train children about
what to do in case of a nuclear attack.
• American citizens built bomb shelters in their
basements, back yards, or communities.
• Americans immigrated to Canada and other
countries not in disagreements with the USSR.
• Americans bought dog tags, radiation protection
clothing, and other items claiming they would offer
protection during a nuclear attack.
The CIA created a plan to help Cuban exiles
invade and overthrow Castro. Where did
the invasion occur in Cuba?
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Hanoi
Bay of Pigs
Guantanamo
Havana
What was formed as a defensive alliance
among the United States and western
European countries to prevent a Soviet
invasion of Western Europe?
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UN
Anti-Communism League
NATO
OPEC
Who said, "the US would pay any price,
bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe, in order
to assure the survival and the success of
liberty?"
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John F. Kennedy
Joseph McCarthy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
At the start of the Korean War, who
invaded whom?
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North Korea invaded South Korea
South Korea invaded North Korea
China and North Korea invaded South Korea
South Korea and the US invaded North
Korea
Which of the following is the policy
reflected by American's involvement in the
Korean War?
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massive retaliation
brinkmanship
ouch theory
containment
Which is NOT an example of how the heavy
expenditures throughout the Cold War
benefited Virginia's economy?
• the Pentagon was built in Northern Virginia
• Numerous private companies received contracts
with the military
• Richmond became the headquarters of the CIA
• several large naval and air bases were built around
the Hampton Roads area
Which of the following American military
interventions was NOT based on the Cold
War theory of containment?
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The Berlin airlift
The Persian Gulf War
The Vietnam War
The Cuban missile crisis
Who led a communist revolution that took
over Cuba in the late 1950s?
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Fulgencio Batista
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Ho Chi Minh
Which of the following Cold War events was
an example of détente?
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Korean War
The Berlin airlift
Nixon's visit to China
Following its defeat, Japan was occupied by
the American forces. Which is NOT true
about Japan during this time period?
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Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
became a strong ally of the United States.
adopted a democratic form of government.
eventually resumed self-government.
adopted communism.
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse
of the Soviet Union marked the
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failure of the Marshall Plan
end of the Cold War
success of the League of Nations
end of the Korean War
What was the U.S. plan to provide massive
financial aid to rebuild European economies
and prevent the spread of communism?
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NATO
Marshall Plan
United Nations
Truman Doctrine
Which nation saw a communist takeover
shortly after World War II?
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China
Laos
South Korea
South Vietnam
What does McCarthyism mean?
• never backing down even if it means war
• keep bombing until someone gives in
• making false accusations based on rumor or guilt by
association
• keeping communism within its borders
Which is NOT an internal problem of the
Soviet Union?
• Rising nationalism in Soviet republics
• The United States could not compete with the
USSR's military expenses.
• Gorbachev's ideas of "glasnost" and "perestroika"
or openness and economic restructuring
• Economic efficiency
What became the foreign and the domestic
policy issues in every presidential election
from the late 1940s through the 1960s?
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Cold War and abortion rights
Cold War and civil rights
Vietnam War and voting rights for all citizens
Vietnam War and poverty
The Soviet Union and the United States
represent starkly different fundamental
values. Which of the following statements
explains these different values?
• The USSR believes in a communist government while the US
believes in a monarchy.
• The USSR believes in a totalitarian government with a
communist (socialist) economic system while the US believes
in a democratic political institution and a generally free
market economic system.
• The US believes in laissez-faire economics and a democratic
government while the USSR believes in a free market and
democratic government.
• Both the USSR and US believe in a democratic government
but the USSR believes their rulers should have communist
tendencies.
President Kennedy was assassinated on what
date?
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September 2, 1945
April 4, 1968
November 22, 1963
May 17, 1954
When did the Cold War end?
• at the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989
• when North and South Vietnam merged in 1975
• in 1963 with the assassination of President
Kennedy
• in 1962 with the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who said in his inaugural address, "Ask not
what your country can do for you; ask what
you can do for your country?"
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Which of the following best describes
United States involvement in the Korean
War?
• United States involvement was part of a détente
policy.
• The United States did not commit military forces
to fight in Korea.
• United States involvement was an example of the
policy of containment.
• The United States and the Soviet Union committed
military forces to fight as allies in Korea.
Where was JFK when he was
shot?
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Los Angeles, California
Harlem, New York
Memphis, Tennessee
Dallas, Texas
What country's forces came to the aid of
North Korea when the United States and
South Korean military pushed into North
Korea?
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China
Cuba
USSR
North Vietnam
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When did the Cold War begin?
at the start of the Korean War
at the start of World War II
at the end of World War II
at the end of the World War I
• What portion of Germany did the
Soviet Union gain control of?
• Western
• southern
• Northern
• Eastern
• All of the following were Cold War
responses to Soviet aggression EXCEPT
• The Berlin airlift
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• The Truman Doctrine
• President Truman's decision to drop the
atomic bomb
• The War Powers Resolution of 1973 was
a response to concerns over
• congressional abuse of authority in
deployment of US military forces
• an imbalance of powers in deployment of
US military forces
• Supreme Court interference in the
deployment of US military forces
• under use of military forces
• The US and USSR come closest to
the brink of a nuclear war due to
the events at what site?
• Hungary
• Berlin
• Cuba
• Vietnam
• Who was the politician who led a
congressional hearing into communist
infiltration o f the American government
and society?
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Richard Nixon
• Henry Cabot Lodge
• Joseph McCarthy
• What type of relationship did the
communist nations of the Soviet Union
and China have in the 1970s?
• They were allied until the fall of the Berlin
Wall.
• They were strong allies.
• They were under one government.
• They were rivals for territory and
diplomatic influence.
• The 1950s domestic hysteria over the
infiltration of communists into American
government and society is known as
• the Red Scare
• McCarthyism
• the domino theory
• the Salem Witch Trials
• Which of the following was
primarily characterized by tension
between the Soviet Union and the
United States?
• The McCarthy hearings
• The Crimean War
• Japanese internment
• the Cold War
• The Bay of Pigs invasion, authorized by
President John F. Kennedy, was an
attempt to unseat which of the following
communist leaders?
• Kim Il Sung
• Ho Chi Minh
• Mao Tse-tung
• Fidel Castro
• The economic theory implemented
by President Ronald Reagan is
known as
• the domino theory
• trust-busting
• trickle-down economics
• isolationism
• What was the agreement ending the
Cuban missile crisis?
• The USSR would remove their missiles
from Cuba and the US would remove
their troops from Florida.
• The US and USSR both agree to
destroy all their nuclear weapons.
• The US would allow Soviet ships past
the 500 mile barrier around Cuba and
the USSR would apologize for pointing
nuclear missiles at US cities.
• The US would not invade Cuba and the
USSR would remove their missiles from
Cuba.
• Compared to public support for US
involvement in the Korean War, public
support of the US military intervention
in southeast Asia during the 1960s and
early 1970s is best described as
• more controversial
• a little bit stronger
• much stronger
• about the same
• How did the Cold War affect American
life?
• Americans lived with a fear of communism
and threat of nuclear war.
• Americans felt that nuclear war would
never occur and went on living a good life.
• Americans banded together and believed
that no matter the cost we should aid all
countries in fighting communism.
• Americans feared that World War III
would occur with our opponent, Germany.
• Anti-Communist fear found a responsive
environment in the US after WWII
partly because of
• the loss of China to communism.
• the United States' dropping the atomic
bomb on Japan.
• The depressed economy in the United
States after the war.
• the Soviet Union's testing of an atomic
weapon.
• At the end of World War II, what
nation occupied most of Eastern and
Central Europe?
• Germany
• United States
• Soviet Union
• Japan
• President Nixon practiced détente,
policy aimed at easing Cold War
tensions, by visiting which
communist nation?
• Vietnam
• Cuba
• China
• USSR
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Who was the last leader of the
Soviet Union?
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Lenin
• What does perestroika mean?
a) giving government grants to
education
b) reforming Soviet society
c) reforming the military to make it
stronger
d) restructuring communist societies
• What does glasnost mean?
• reforming society thru federal aid
• helping aid other communist
countries
• ignoring social issues of civilians
• openness in discussing social issues
• In what country did the military kill
hundreds of college students
protesting for freedom?
• China
• Vietnam
• Germany
• USSR
• What was the purpose of the START II
Treaty?
• The USSR and US agree to stop building
nuclear weapons.
• The USSR and US agree to stop the space
race.
• The USSR and US agree to build more
nuclear weapons.
• The USSR and US agree to reduce the
number of nuclear weapons.
• Which is NOT a problem the Soviet
Union was facing before it collapsed?
• Military and economic pressure from the
United States
• Rising nationalism in the republics
• Military spending was cheap so they began
making too many weapons
• Economic inefficiency
• Who was president of the United
States when the Soviet Union
collapsed?
• George H.W. Bush
• Ronald Reagan
• John F. Kennedy
• Jimmy Carter
• What European country reunited
after the USSR collapsed?
• Germany
• Poland
• Italy
• Hungary
• All of the following are examples of how
the Cold War helped Virginia's economy
EXCEPT
• building naval and air bases in Hampton
Roads
• contracting private companies to do
military work
• building the Pentagon in Northern Virginia
• building naval training center at Annapolis
Civil Rights
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Who refused to give up a bus seat
on a Montgomery public bus to a
white person?
Rosa Parks
Orval Faublus
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Which of the following is NOT true
about the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The act desegregated public
accommodations.
The act prohibited discrimination.
Lyndon B. Johnson played an important
role in the passage of the act.
The act was proposed by President
Eisenhower.
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Which of the following was a result of
the civil rights movement?
The 24th Amendment, eliminating the poll
tax
The 26th Amendment, lowering the voting
age to 18
The election of John F. Kennedy as
president
The end of the Ku Klux Klan
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What effect did the Voting Rights Act
of 1965 have on the number of African
American voters in the south?
the number minimally increased
the number decreased
the number remained the same
the number increased significantly
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d)
The Supreme Court case Brown v. Board
of Education of Topeka, Kansas ruled
that segregation in _______________
was unconstitutional.
schools
restaurants
hotels
restrooms
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b)
c)
d)
The landmark "I Have a Dream"
civil rights speech was delivered
at the 1963 March on
Washington, D.C. by
John F. Kennedy
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks
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b)
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d)
Which of the following cases decided by
the Supreme Court under the leadership
of Chief Justice Earl Warren did the
most to advance the goals of the civil
rights movement?
Griswold v. Connecticut
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,
Kansas
Gideon v. Wainwright
Miranda v. Arizona
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All of the following are major
events of the civil rights
movement EXCEPT
the Montgomery bus boycott
the Seneca Falls Convention
the founding of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
freedom summer
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b)
c)
d)
Who is known as the most vocal
Black Muslim?
James Earl Ray
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King
Mohammad Ali
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b)
c)
d)
As stated in the Voting Rights Act
of 1965, what test is outlawed?
intelligence
literacy
SOL
standardized
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b)
c)
d)
To who is Martin Luther King
Jr.'s tactics compared?
Winston Churchill
Malcolm X
Mohandas Gandhi
John Brown
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c)
d)
Which of the following legislative
acts did the most to increase
voting among African Americans?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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d)
Which of the following twentiethcentury constitutional amendments does
NOT directly defend or expand
individual rights?
22nd , limiting presidential terms
19th, enfranchising women
26th, lowering the voting age
24th, eliminating poll taxes
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What is the name given to the massive
resistance of the Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka, Kansas ruling
where many white students attend
private academies and some schools
closed?
nonviolent resistance
civil disobedience
separatism
white flight
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b)
c)
d)
What is the name given to the
years between the Brown verdict
and Martin Luther King's
assassination?
Discrimination Decade
Power to Civil Rights
Second Reconstruction
Black separatism
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b)
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d)
Which Supreme Court case set the
"separate but equal" precedent?
Roe v. Wade
Marbury v. Madison
Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas
Plessey v. Ferguson
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d)
What is the term for peacefully
demonstrating for a change of
policy without fighting authorities?
boycott
nonviolent resistance
civil disobedience
martyr
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b)
c)
d)
Who led the NAACP legal defense
team in the Supreme Court case
Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas?
John Marshall
Earl Warren
Thurgood Marshall
Oliver Hill
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Did John F. Kennedy support the
civil rights movement?
a) yes
b) no
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Did Lyndon B. Johnson support the
civil rights movement?
a) yes
b) no
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b)
c)
d)
Which event helped influence public
opinion to support civil rights legislation
and demonstrated the power of nonviolent, mass protest?
Little Rock Nine
Freedom Rides
Montgomery bus boycott
1963 March on Washington
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b)
c)
d)
As stated in the Voting Rights Act
of 1965, who are responsible for
registering voters in the South?
state registrars
federal registrars
hired registrars
district registrars
Aims of the Great Society: 1.Eradicate racial
injustice 2. Share abundance 3.Overcome
disease 4. Dispel ignorance
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 are examples
of Great Society legislation addressing:
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Aim 1
Aim 2
Aim 3
Aim 4
Vietnam
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Beginning in the early 1950s and
continuing into the early 1960s, the
communist government of _________
Vietnam attempted to install and force
through a communist government in
____________ Vietnam.
North, South
South, North
East, West
West, East
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b)
c)
d)
Who was President when the
United States started the
American military build up in
Vietnam?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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b)
c)
d)
Which President pledged to bring
the war to an honorable end?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
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a)
b)
c)
d)
The War Powers Resolution of 1973
was a response to concerns over
congressional abuse of authority in
deployment of US military forces
under use of military forces
Supreme Court interference in the
deployment of US military forces
an imbalance of powers in deployment of
US military forces
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a)
b)
c)
d)
What Viet Cong fighting style
employed “hit and run” and only
fighting when the odds were on
your side?
guerilla warfare
nuclear warfare
trench warfare
massive warfare
• What was Operation Rolling Thunder?
a) Supposed stalemate in fighting on the Vietnamese
New Year but instead the Viet Cong struck
important military bases in South Vietnam.
b) Uprooting camps and forced people to move to
refugee camps surrounded by barbed wire.
c) Three years of bombing raids on roads, bases, and
railways
d) Atrocity of small Vietnam village killing 340 men,
women, and children claiming Viet Cong lived
among them.
• The New York Times published what
article revealing secret activities by
the US government in the Vietnam
conflict?
• The Pentagon Papers
• Kent State Killings
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• The Pumpkin Papers
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b)
c)
d)
What was the effect of
“Vietnamization”?
It kept communism from South Vietnam.
It failed and South Vietnam surrendered
to communism.
It had no effect.
It made the 17th parallel the dividing line
between communist North Vietnam and
non-communist South Vietnam.
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b)
c)
d)
What does Nixon’s policy of
“Vietnamization” mean?
Slowly handing South Vietnam back over
to the control of the South Vietnamese
military.
Increasing the number of US military in
North Vietnam
Slowly handing North Vietnam back over
to the control of the North Vietnamese
military.
Increasing the number of US military in
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b)
c)
d)
What Cold War policy is reflected
by the United States involvement
in the Vietnam War?
ouch theory
Marshall Plan
massive retaliation
containment
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b)
c)
d)
What site saw many anti-war
protests during Vietnam?
National monuments
college campuses
recruiting offices
factories
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b)
c)
d)
How did the communist North
Vietnamese supply the communist
guerillas in South Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh Trail
bombing raids to steal from South
Vietnamese peasants
tank trains
airlift supplies
• Which is NOT a problem of the US
soldiers in Vietnam?
• Hot, humid weather
• Well hidden enemy that knows the
terrain
• Well trained, experienced soldiers
• Frustration that makes many turn to
drugs and alcohol
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b)
c)
d)
What country gave up Vietnam as
a colony?
Germany
France
USSR
Great Britain
• What was the Tet Offensive?
a) Atrocity of small Vietnam village killing 340 men,
women, and children claiming Viet Cong lived
among them.
b) Uprooting camps and forced people to move to
refugee camps surrounded by barbed wire.
c) Three years of bombing raids on roads,
bases, and railways
d) Supposed stalemate in fighting on the Vietnamese
New Year but instead the Viet Cong struck
important military bases in South Vietnam.
• What was the My Lai Massacre?
a) Uprooting camps and forced people to move to
refugee camps surrounded by barbed wire.
b) Three years of bombing raids on roads,
bases, and railways
c) Atrocity of small Vietnam village killing 340 men,
women, and children claiming Viet Cong lived
among them.
d) Supposed stalemate in fighting on the Vietnamese
New Year but instead the Viet Cong struck
important military bases in South Vietnam.
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b)
c)
d)
What was a powerful ally for
anti-war protestors in the US?
Radio
Television
Propaganda
movies
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a)
b)
c)
d)
The domino theory was a foreign policy that
proposed which of the following arguments?
Foreign policy in Asia was a game.
If one Asian country were to become a
democracy, then other nearby nations would also
become democracies.
If a communist revolution were to succeed in one
Asian country, then other nearby nations would
also turn to communism.
If the United States colonized one Asian country,
then the Asian trade market would open
dramatically.
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a)
b)
c)
d)
What part of Vietnam did the
United States aid?
North
West
South
East