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Vietnam War &
the SALT Treaty
What effect did the Cold War
have on the Virginia economy?
• Benefitted Virginia’s economy
more than any other state’s
In what two parts of Virginia was
military spending most important
during the Cold War?
• Hampton Roads
• Northern Virginia
What Cold War policy resulted
in American involvement in
Vietnam?
• Containment
What American president said,
“Ask not what Your country
can do for You, but what You
can do for Your country?
• John F. Kennedy
What president said Americans
should “pay any price, bear any
burden, meet any hardship…to
assure the survival and success
of liberty”?
• John F. Kennedy
What European colonial
power controlled Indochina
after World War II?
(Indochina included Vietnam.)
• France
Who was the leader of the
Vietnamese independence
movement?
• Ho Chi Minh
Why did the United States
support France’s efforts after
World War II to keep
Indochina as a colony?
• Ho Chi Minh was a
communist.
What type of government did
North Vietnam have?
• communist
What type of government did
South Vietnam have?
• Non-communist or anticommunist
What was the name of the South
Vietnamese communists who tried
to overthrow the South Vietnamese
government? They were guerilla
fighters.
• Vietcong
What was the official name of
the Vietcong?
• The National Liberation
Front
What president gave economic
and military aid, money and
weapons, first to the French
and then to the government of
South Vietnam?
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
What president began the
American military buildup in
South Vietnam?
• John F. Kennedy
What president was
assassinated in 1963?
• John F. Kennedy
What president escalated
(increased) American military
involvement in the Vietnam
War?
• Lyndon B. Johnson
What anti-communist policy
did the United States follow in
Vietnam?
• Containment
How many American troops
did the United States have
stationed in Vietnam in 1968?
• More than 500,000
What was the center of antiwar feeling in the United
States?
• College campuses
Who won the 1968 presidential
election?
• Richard M. Nixon
What was Nixon’s pledge in
the 1968 presidential campaign
regarding the Vietnam War?
• “Peace with Honor.”
What did Nixon call his policy
to turn over the war to the
South Vietnamese army and
simultaneously withdraw
American troops?
• Vietnamization
Did Vietnamization succeed or
fail?
• Failed
What two communist countries
supplied the North Vietnamese
Army?
• The Soviet Union
• Communist China
What political scandal forced
President Nixon to resign from
office?
• Watergate
Who became president when
Nixon resigned as President?
• Gerald Ford
What happened in Vietnam?
In other words, how did the
Vietnam War end?
• Communist North Vietnam
took over South Vietnam and
reunited the country under
communist rule.
Who was president when the
Vietnam War ended?
• Gerald Ford
What type of government did
Vietnam have when it was
reunified in 1975?
• Communist
Who was President Nixon’s
most important Secretary of
State?
• Henry Kissinger
What was the relationship
between the Soviet Union and
communist China in the early
1970s?
• The Soviet Union and China
were rivals for power.
With what country did
President Nixon begin to
establish formal diplomatic
relations in 1972?
• Communist China
Who was the leader of
communist China in 1972?
• Mao Zedong
What was the capital of
communist China?
• Beijing
Who was the Soviet Union’s
leader in 1972?
• Leonid Brezhnev
What was the capital of the
Soviet Union?
• Moscow
What two countries were
involved in the SALT talks?
• The United States and the
Soviet Union
What does SALT stand for?
• Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks
Name the Soviet-American
discussions to establish limits
on the number of nuclear
weapons.
• The SALT talks
Name the first treaty to
establish limits on the number
of nuclear weapons held by the
United States and
the Soviet Union.
• The SALT Treaty