U.S. & Louisiana | U6T3 | The Later Cold War | BBLMS

The U.S. got involved in the Vietnam War to:

• protect trade routes.

• spread democracy.

• contain the spread of communism.

• retaliate against attacks.

The U.S. ________________ able to contain the spread of communism in the Vietnam War.

• was not

• was

The release of the __________________ upset Americans by revealing the truths surrounding the Vietnam War—U.S. military leaders felt it could not be won.

• Pentagon Papers

• Watergate tapes

• Vietnam Dossiers

• Secret Memorandums

The release of these documents spurred a court case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the media could publish these documents as protected by the _____________________.

• First Amendment

• Second Amendment

• Fifth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

These documents, in combination with the results of the __________________________, a series of attacks which showed it would be difficult to win the war in Vietnam, led to anti-war __________________________.

• Tet Offensive; protests

• Saigon Bombings; movements

• Hanoi Strikes; demonstrations

• Ho Chi Minh Campaign; rallies

President Nixon’s policy of __________________________ involved both a foreign visit to __________________________ as well as the __________________________—an agreement between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to reduce nuclear weapons.

• Détente; China; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)

• Containment; Japan; Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

• Engagement; India; INF Treaty

• Isolation; Germany; START Treaty

President Ford’s Energy Policy Conservation Act of 1975 sought to ____________________ energy usage and costs.

• increase

• decrease

• stabilize

• eliminate

President Jimmy Carter facilitated peace agreements between Egypt and Israel known as the ____________________.

• Oslo Accords

• Cairo Peace Pact

• Camp David Accords

• Sinai Agreement

President Carter’s leadership was plagued by the rising price of _________________ and shortages of ____________.

• oil; gas

• wheat; water

• coal; electricity

• gold; food

When the Soviet Union invaded ____________________, Carter responded by placing an embargo on trade with the USSR, halting SALT, and refusing to allow Americans to participate in the Moscow Olympics.

• Poland

• Afghanistan

• Czechoslovakia

• Hungary