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WorksheetsUS History: Cold War
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
The easing of Cold War tensions between the United States and the U.S.S.R.
Containment
Detente
Mutual Assured Destruction
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev used this policy as a way to make government matters more transparent and open
Perestroika
Red Scare
Glasnost
Containment
Negotiations between the US and the Soviet Union that were aimed at limiting the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
S.A.L.T.
I.C.B.M.
N.A.T.O.
Highly flammable chemical dropped from US planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam War
Agent Orange
Mustard Gas
Napalm
Government insurance program that covers primarily low-income Americans.
Medicare
Headstart
Medicaid
Government insurance program for U.S citizens 65 years or older
Medicare
Headstart
Medicaid
The killing of 300 Vietnamese villagers that shocked Americans and increased anti-war protests
Tet Offensive
My Lai
Dien Bien Phu
The government policy of having the South Vietnamese gradually take over the conduct of the war.
Domino Theory
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vietnamization
Series of pro-democracy protests in China in the spring of 1989 that resulted with a government crackdown on the protestors
Kent State
Tiananmen Square
My Lai
Which statement accurately describes the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
It was used mainly to move South Vietnamese troops north
Most of it was located outside the borders of Vietnam
It connected key cities and ports with South Vietnam
The main purpose of the War Powers Act was to
Expand Presidential war powers
Restrict the power of the President
The United States first became involved in Vietnam by
providing aid to Ho Chi Minh in his fight against the French colonialists.
providing economic aid to the French colonialists fighting Ho Chi Minh.
sending American bombers to defend the French at Dien Bien Phu.
A Soviet scientific achievement that sparked the Space Race...
Atomic Bomb
Hydrogen Bomb
Sputnik
The Latin American country where a 1959 communist revolution ousted a U.S.-backed dictator was...
Cuba
Costa Rica
Panama
Communist Vietnamese leader
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Tensions between students who opposed the war and National Guardsmen resulted in four deaths at
Kent State
Ole Miss
Ohio State
Reagan’s key agreement with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev provided for
the eventual end of communism inside the Soviet Union.
a major reduction in both Soviet and American nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles
the banning of all intermediate-range nuclear missiles from Europe.
What principle, described by President Eisenhower, became associated with American involvement in Southeast Asia?
Laissez-Faire
Domino theory
Mutually Assured Destruction
What congressional action gave President Johnson the authority to escalate the Vietnam War?
the Pentagon Papers
the War Powers Act
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This attack by the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army led to a decrease in support for the Vietnam War.
Tet Offensive
My Lai
Battle of the Bulge
The Vietnam War finally ended in 1975 when
North Vietnam surrendered.
Nixon signed a peace treaty with North Vietnam.
North Vietnam gained control over all of Vietnam.
President Richard Nixon’s foreign policy of détente was an attempt to
improve relations with the Soviet Union
resolve Middle East conflicts
increase the power of the United Nations Security Council
Which action has come to symbolize the end of the Cold War?
establishing the Peace Corps
achieving a truce in the Korean War
tearing down the Berlin Wall
What was the name of the first US air campaign directed at defeating North Vietnam in 1965?
Operation Rolling Thunder
Hearts and Minds
Operation Search and Destroy
President Reagan was calling for the end of the
nuclear arms race
division of Berlin, Germany
Warsaw Pact
Who was the South Vietnamese leader propped up by the U.S. that was assassinated in 1963?
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Nguyen Cao Ky
What was the primary focus of the protest movement of the 1960s?
To end segregation of the military
To build support for the draft
To demand U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam
Some Americans questioned the fairness of the draft because
College students could easily avoid the draft
The government refused to draft African Americans
Only men between the ages of 18 and 26 were drafted
The strategy used by the Viet Cong was based on
Overpowering the U.S. with their superior military weaponry
Outlasting the American will to fight in Vietnam
Allying with the Soviet Union and using their army against the U.S.
Where did the Vietminh ultimately defeat the French thereby forcing the French to agree to depart from trying to control Indochina?
Saigon
Hanoi
Dien Bien Phu
