Answers-Cold War
1. The French effort to reassert control over French Indonesia.
2. The south part of Vietnam
3. Vietnam was divided in two parts, the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam and the Republic of Vietnam
4. President Ngo Dinh Diem’s misrule of the Republic of Vietnam
5. South Vietnam was in danger of falling to the communism
because it bordered North Vietnam.
6. over 11,000 advisors were sent.
7. In 1975
8. The introduction of strategic hamlets and the abuses of the
South Vietnamese government.
9. That the US would have to send ground troops.
10. to protest the catholic Diem’s attacks on Buddhist pagodas
11. The U.S. decided that Diem’s regime was too unpopular.
12. August 1964
13. a fictional North Vietnamese naval attack
14. the presidential authorization to wage war in Southeast Asia
15. non-Communist nations of Asia cannot, by themselves and
alone, resist the growing might and the grasping ambition of
Asian communism.
16. massive bombing and limited U.S. ground troops
17. Johnson had to either increase U.S. involvement or see South
Vietnam defeated.
18. 1965
19. 500,000
20. Jungles, rice patties, dense foliage, impossibility of telling who
the enemies were and the monsoon season.
21. the Communists
22. his strategy was to kill both infiltrated and indigenous
Vietnamese Communist soldiers more rapidly than they could
be replaced
23. They were missions in which well-trained and armed
American Units would try to find and decimate so-called
main-force Communist forces.
24. North Vietnam was able to infiltrate Communist soldiers faster
than General Westmoreland's soldiers could kill them.
25. 5 million
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B-52 massive attacks
Defoliation
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Infiltration detection
chemical herbicides
remote electronic
sensors
Aerial envelopment
and movement
Helicopters, airplanes,
and bombing
they provided continuous analysis of the attitudes and
behavior of enemy forces to the tactical commanders in the
field, so they could develop, produce and employ propaganda
in a successful manner.
to win the “hearts and minds” of the South Vietnamese
people
Sheltering soldiers underground and bombing
heavy weapons
Guerrilla fighters look just like everyone else and, in a town,
it is hard to distinguish friend from foe
Steel arrow trap
Yes, they had a reinforced sleeping chamber
Tanks and artillery
to destabilize the Saigon regime and to force the United
States to opt for a negotiated settlement
draw the ARVN and United States forces away from the cities
Because the rate of infiltration of troops from the North rose
to 20,000 per month by late 1967
On leave
five major cities, thirty-six provincial capitals, sixty-four
district capitals, and numerous villages
the pressure of United States bombing and artillery attacks
2,000 to 3,000 officials, police, and others
that the victory in Vietnam would require a greater
commitment of men and resources than the American people
were willing to invest.
declared a halt to the bombing and urged Hanoi to agree to
peace talks
by refusing Westmoreland’s request for an additional 200,000
troops.
HO CHI MINH AND GENERAL VO NGUYEN GIAP
Extensive media coverage, especially on the nightly TV news
They started organizing protests against the war including
teach-ins and forming student organizations like the SDS
(Students for a Democratic Society) that held rallies and
marches
Anger and hopelessness
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wearing peace symbols to refusing to obey orders
US imperialism
stopped a war between two NATO allies, Greece and Turkey,
over the island of Cyprus
he forced 5 NATO nations to join the boycott
Congo
The U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere if there
was a communist threat to any government
The Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujillo
1965
Latin American countries will become understandably agitated
and resentful
Gamal Abedel-Nasser
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Event
Month and Year
Golan Heights comes under
June, 1967
Israeli control
Jordan surrenders to Israel
June, 1967
Egypt aids Yemen
Nov, 1963
Force on both Arab and Israeli
May 1967
sides of borders are
mobilized
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another war in 1973
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Part of the world
Event
Year
Asia
China exploded an
1964
atomic bomb
LBJ imposed an
1965
arms embargo on
India and Pakistan
over fighting in
Kashmir
Latin America
Europe and
Western USSR
Pueblo Incident
1968
New treaty on
Panama Canal
1964
Treaty of Tlatelolco
1967
France from NATO
1966
Glassboro Summit
“Prague Spring”
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1967
1968
he had a secret plan” to end the Vietnam War
massive anti-war demonstrations and the announcement of a
new policy.
the improvement and modernization of the South Vietnamese
armed forces ability for pacification and combat operations
Henry Kissinger
475,000
-150,000
325,000 less troops
Early in 1969
disappointing to mediocre
ARVN was not up to handling the NVA, and that it would take
a long time to develop a reliable ARVN fighting force
negative reactions to the Cambodian incursion
The National Guardsmen
USSR and China
the ceasefire agreement
Ho Chi Minh City
1968
to be superpowers and police the rest of the world to keep
the peace
Taiwan, where Nationalist Chiang Kai-Shek and his army had
fled
Acceptance of an invitations for a U.S. ping pong team to play
in China and an invitation for Nixon himself to visit China.
80.
Domestic Political
Reasons
Upcomming US election
Nixon’s history of anticommunism
allowed him to not
accused of being
“soft on
communism”
International political and
economic reasons
China was the most populous
nation in the world
the U.S. could play China and the
USSR off against each
other
pressure in the United Nations to
let China in as a permanent
member
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This was the first agreement to place limits and restraints on
some of their central and most important armaments,
including the anti-ballistic missile systems
The USSR became more cautious in promoting revolutions in
third world countries, and helped get North Vietnam to the
bargaining table.
another “Vietnam” type war
where it makes a real difference and is considered in our
interest
It used the Chilean army to overthrow Allende in a coup
He negotiated a ceasefire between the Arabs and Israelis.
Wealth was transferred from technology-rich nations to oilrich nations and OPEC was formed.
the Watergate scandal
Ford pardoned him.
Vladivostok Siberia (U.S.S.R.) in 1974 and Helsinki, Finland in
1975
they can be assured that both nations would be destroyed
South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
They were already on their way home.
Two million
“Promotion of human rights.”
September 7, 1977
He wrote the landmark National Environmental Policy Act and
sponsored legislation to preserve vast park lands and
wilderness areas throughout the United States.
The Arab-Israeli conflict had been going on since the
establishment of the Jewish state in 1948.
Egypt agreed to formally recognize Israel’s right to exist.
Egypt became the first Arab country to recognize the nation
of Israel
When he assumed office, Carter put his human rights policy
into effect.
Guerrillas fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua
1979
a theocracy
Jan. 1981 when Ronald Reagan became President.
The two rescue aircraft collided, ending the mission before it
got off the ground
September 1979
107. No, None of these actions had any impact on the Soviet
invasion.
108. The popular vote.
109. Social revolutions around the world were controlled by
communists
110. In 1981, leftist political parties joined with guerrilla groups
111. By the late 1980’s, the horrors of what was going on could no
longer be covered up.
112. Death squads supported by the Salvadorian military murdered
thousands of its own citizens
113. the Soviet bloc
114. In violation of the Congressional Amendment Reagan had the
National Security Council fund the Contras by raising money
from foreign countries and private donors.
115. 1990
116. The invasion sent a message throughout the region that the
Reagan administration would not tolerate communism in its
hemisphere.
117. Many PLO fighters and their families set up a de facto state in
southern Lebanon on the Israeli border.
118. Yes, Israeli troops eventually forced the PLO to leave Lebanon
119. Hezbollah, a Muslim terrorist group, suicide bombers blew up
the Marine barracks, 241 Marines died and three months later
Reagan ordered the Marines out of Lebanon.
120. Reagan reignited the arms race when he declared the U.S.
had to increase its weaponry to “catch up with the Soviets.”
121. They wanted the communist government to give them a 5day work week.
122. The protests took place in both Europe and the U.S.
123. He renewed two programs; the B-1 bomber and the neutron
bomb.
124. Produce systems capable of destroying nuclear missiles in
flight.
125. Ronald Regan, US President and Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet
General Secretary
126. glasnost (“openness”): this allowed open criticism of the
Soviet government by individuals and media.
perestroika (restructure): a move to introduce democracy
and some capitalism into Soviet government and society.
127. because of its continued apartheid (racial segregation) laws
128. In 15 and 16 April 1986, United States launched a series of
military air strikes against ground targets inside Libya.
129. Iran and the Contras
130. In 1989 and 1990