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CW: Cuba / Vietnam

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Fulgencio Batista

b)

Fidel Castro

c)

Mao Zedong

d)

Ho Chi Minh

2.

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

a)

Berlin Airlift

b)

Korean War

c)

Cuban Missile Crisis

d)

Vietnam War

3.

What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

An invasion of the United States into Cuba to overthrow Castro

d)

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

4.

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

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

5.

Who were the respective leaders of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

a)

JFK and Stalin

b)

Eisenhower and Stalin

c)

JFK and Khrushchev

d)

Nixon and Khrushchev

6.

The Berlin Wall was symbolic of...

a)

Capitalism v Fascism

b)

Capitalism v Monarchy

c)

Capitalism v Anarchy

d)

Capitalism v Communism

7.

Which country had colonial holdings on Vietnam prior to WWII?

a)

Great Britain

b)

United States

c)

Japan

d)

France

8.

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

a)

Timber Theory

b)

Domino Theory

c)

Knockout Theory

d)

Communist Tag

9.

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

a)

Operation Rolling Thunder

b)

Vietnamization

c)

Ride of the Valkyries

d)

Fading Wave

10.

Hanoi was the capital of North Vietnam

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Saigon was the capital of South Vietnam

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Who was the leader of North Vietnam?

a)

Mao Zedong

b)

Ho Chi Minh

c)

Pol Pot

d)

Yul Minh

13.

The "event" that brought the United States to war in Vietnam

a)

Invasion of Saigon

b)

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

c)

Ride of the Valkyries

d)

Fall of the Royals

14.

People who lived in South Vietnam that worked with the North Vietnamese to try to unify the country

a)

Viet Minh

b)

Viet Cong

c)

Viet Chi

d)

Red Hats

15.

A coordinated surprise attack on multiple cities throughout South Vietnam

a)

Tet Offensive

b)

Operation Doom

c)

Operation Linebacker

d)

Crowd Offensive