How did the media (television) impact the Vietnam War?

• Negative press coverage contributed to the public disillusionment with the war.

• The positive press coverage encouraged enlistment in the military.

• The impact of the media in Vietnam was rather minimal.

• The media showed that the majority of Americans supported the war effort.

The launch of Sputnik I intensified Cold War tensions and caused the —

• United States to increase spending on technology, education and weapons to compete with the Soviet Union

• Soviet Union to move missiles and warships to Cuba in order to threaten the United States

• United States to send troops and aid to East Berlin to free it from Soviet control

• Soviet Union to threaten Europe with nuclear attack if Soviet airspace were violated

What individual/group contributed to the Red Scare and accused American citizens of being communists?

• Martin Luther King & Black Panthers

• Jane Addams & Settlement Houses

• Joseph McCarthy & HUAC

• Cesar Chavez & United Farmworkers Union

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what did JFK do when he heard that the Soviet Union was constructing a missile site in Cuba.

• JFK gave into the Soviet demands.

• JFK bombed the Soviet Union with an atomic bomb.

• JFK ordered a naval blockade of Cuba.

• JFK invaded Cuba from Guantanamo Bay.

Which of the following is most characteristic of the Cold War?

• The growth of nuclear arsenals in the United States and the Soviet Union

• The expansion of national borders by imperialistic European countries

• The implementation of isolationist foreign policies in Great Britain and China

• The rapid industrialization of many Southeast Asian countries

Match the following

• Aid during Soviet blockade

• Truman Doctrine

• Truman

• NATO

• European Recovery

• Berlin Airlift

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Marshall Plan

• Soviet Union

• Cold War

Which U.S. President escalated the Vietnam War by ordering the first large-scale deployment of American troops?

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford

What was the primary goal of the Nixon administration's policy of Vietnamization?

• To increase the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam

• To hand over the responsibility of war to South Vietnamese forces

• To introduce democratic elections in Vietnam

• To negotiate a peace treaty with North Vietnam

Which U.S. President signed the Paris Peace Accords, leading to the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War?

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford

• Jimmy Carter

Reorder the following

• Richard M. Nixon

• John F. Kennedy

• Harry S. Truman

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Lyndon B. Johnson