VIETNAM WAR

Hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military action was known as ______.

• Marshall Plan
• Iron Curtain
• Cold War
• Brinkmanship

What contributed to the end of Cuban Missile Crisis?

• America's secret promise to remove missiles from Turkey.
• The discovery that the missles had been removed from Cuba
• Castor's promise to restore democracy
• Castro's promise to break with the Soviet Union

What was the main reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall?

• To embarrass America
• To stop East Germans from fleeing to West Germany
• To reduce cold war tensions
• To demonstrate the success of Communism

The ____ granted the president broad military powers in Vietnam

• Geneva Accords
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• Marshall Plan
• Operation Rolling Thunders

Vietcong

• South Vietnam force
• North Vietnam force
• North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam
• Another name for Communists

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Napalm

• A chemical herbicide used to clear out forests and tall grasses
• A type of lotion soldiers would use to get rid of the sent on their clothing
• Another name for a flamethrower
• An intensely burning explosive used to destroy jungle growth

Agent Orange

• Nickname of a Soviet agent that would always wear orange while on important missions
• Term used to describe the South Vietnamese agents because they 
• A chemical herbicide used to clear out forests and tall grasses
• An intensely burning explosive used to destroy jungle growth

Fidel Castro was the leader of which country?

• Sweden
• Hungary
• Cuba
• Czechoslavakia

Who was the leader of North Vietnam during the war?

• Ho Chi Minh

• Ngo Dinh Diem

• William C. Westmoreland

• Bien Denh Phu

The idea that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations would soon follow was known as

• Vietnamization

• Subversion

• Domino Theory

• Detente