Modern Era Quiz Review

Why did people protest the Vietnam War?

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• People were able to get out of the draft.

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What was the name of the U.S. war AND operation in 1991?

• Kuwait War, Operation Barbarossa

• Persian War, Operation Overlord

• Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm

• Iraqi War, Operation Storm

What is the name of the guerilla fighters in South Vietnam?

• Vietcong

• Vietminh

• NVA

• ARVN

Private businesses run all business, government doesn't have as much control.

• Command economy

• Market economy

• Communism

• Capitalism

Decades long fight between communist and capitalist countries.

• Space Race

• Cold War

• War on Terror

• Arms Race

America's fear of Communism was called the

• Truman Doctrine

• Domino Theory

• Containment

• Red Scare

Who was Fidel Castro?

• Communist leader of the Soviet Union for part of the Cold War

• Communist leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Communist leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War

• Communist leader of East Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall

Why did the U.S. get involved in the war in Vietnam?

• Containment- stop the spread of communism.

• To take down Fidel Castro.

• To stop the Cold War.

• To prove how powerful the U.S. is

If you supported the Vietnam war, you were called a _________. If you did not support war, you were called a _________.

• cat; dog

• dove; hawk

• hawk; dove

• mouse; cat

What argument did Nixon make of why he didn't need to turn over White House tape recordings?

• The tapes were private and he didn't have to turn over private property

• It would compromise national security

• They were already erased

• The tapes were already in a museum