CW: Cuba / Vietnam

Who was the leader of Cuba that created an alliance with the USSR?

• Fulgencio Batista

• Fidel Castro

• Mao Zedong

• Ho Chi Minh

A standoff between the United States and Soviet Union that nearly escalated to nuclear war

• Berlin Airlift

• Korean War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Vietnam War

What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

• A ship carrying two thousand pigs sunk and all two thousand pigs swam ashore, invading Cuba and eating the crops

• A CIA sponsored event to train Mexicans to invade Cuba to overthrow Castro

• An invasion of the United States into Cuba to overthrow Castro

• A CIA sponsored event to train Cuban exiles to invade Cuba to overthrow Castro

What was agreed upon for the Cuban Missile Crisis to end?

• USSR remove missiles from Cuba; USA would not invade Cuba and would remove missiles from Turkey

• USSR remove missiles from Cuba; USA would not invade Cuba and remove missiles from Alaska

• USSR remove missiles from Cuba; USA would wait five years until invading Cuba

• The crisis was unresolved and the USA and USSR went to nuclear World War III

Who were the respective leaders of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• JFK and Stalin

• Eisenhower and Stalin

• JFK and Khrushchev

• Nixon and Khrushchev

The Berlin Wall was symbolic of...

• Capitalism v Fascism

• Capitalism v Monarchy

• Capitalism v Anarchy

• Capitalism v Communism

Which country had colonial holdings on Vietnam prior to WWII?

• Great Britain

• United States

• Japan

• France

The idea that if one country falls to communism, then other countries in the region will fall to communism as well

• Timber Theory

• Domino Theory

• Knockout Theory

• Communist Tag

The process of withdrawing American troops and forcing South Vietnam to deal with the war

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• Vietnamization

• Ride of the Valkyries

• Fading Wave

Hanoi was the capital of North Vietnam

• True

• False