Vietnam and the End of the Cold War
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Question 1 - 10
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What was Agent Orange and Napalm used
for in Vietnam?
Answer 1 – 10
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To destroy the thick jungle cover that the
Vietcong used to hide their movements
and disappear in.
Question 1 - 20
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Who built the Berlin Wall and why did they
build it?
Answer 1 – 20
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The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall to
keep East Germans from escaping to
freedom in West Berlin.
Question 1 - 30
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What did the fall of the Berlin Wall in
November 1989 symbolize to the world?
Answer 1 – 30
The end of the Cold War
 The communism in eastern Europe
 The reuniting of Germany into one country
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Question 1 - 40
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What claims by Senator Joseph McCarthy
began his communist witch hunt?
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He claimed to have a list of people
working in the U.S. government who were
commies. This list was never revealed.
Question 1 - 50
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Why were Americans Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg executed by the U.S.
government?
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They had been passing our atomic bomb
secrets to the Soviets as spys.
Question 2 - 10
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What was the “Iron Curtain”?
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The imaginary border dividing of
communist eastern Europe from
democratic western Europe.
Question 2 - 20
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What was the purpose of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC)?
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Root out Americans who were suspected
of being communists.
Question 2 - 30
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What was Eisenhower’s policy of
Brinkmanship?
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He was willing to threaten nuclear war in
order to get the Soviet Union to back
down when confrontation arose in the
Cold War.
Question 2 - 40
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How did the Vietnam War lead to a
“Credibility Gap” between the U.S.
government and the American people?
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Americans had at first supported our involvement in
Vietnam. However, as the war progressed, what
Americans were being told by the government about the
war, and what they saw on t.v. didn’t match. People
began doubting the government’s honesty and when the
Pentagon Papers revealed that the government had
been lying about the war, American support turned
against the war.
Question 2 - 50
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This acronym refers to soldiers who never
returned from war?
Answer 2 – 50
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M.I.A’s – Missing in Action
Question 3 - 10
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Assassinated JFK (John F. Kennedy)
Answer 3 – 10
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Question 3 - 20
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Democratic candidate who (like his
brother) was assassinated by Sirhan
Sirhan during his 1968 presidential run?
Answer 3 – 20
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Robert Kennedy
Question 3 - 30
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What is the current status of the U.S. and
Cuba’s relationship?
Answer 3 – 30
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Cuba is becoming more open to free
market capitalist ideas and American
businesses, however the U.S. still has its
trade embargo in place forbidding
Americans to travel or do business in
Cuba.
Question 3 - 40
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JFK was assassinated while traveling in
what city?
Answer 3 – 40
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Dallas, Texas
Question 3 - 50
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What civil rights leader criticized America’s
involvement in Vietnam and the
disproportionate number of African
American deaths in Nam?
Answer 3 – 50
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MLK – Martin Luther King Jr.
Question 4 - 10
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Americans who wanted the war in
Vietnam to end and American troops
brought back home were called?
Answer 4 – 10
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doves
Question 4 - 20
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Nixon’s National Security Adviser and then
Secretary of State. Helped him plan
America’s exit strategy from Vietnam.
Answer 4 – 20
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Henry Kissenger
Question 4 - 30
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Americans who were in favor of the war in
Vietnam were called?
Answer 4 – 30
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Hawks
Question 4 - 40
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The Capital of South Vietnam during the
war?
Answer 4 – 40
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Saigon
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Capital of North Vietnam during the war?
Answer 4 – 50
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Hanoi
Question 5 - 10
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South Vietnamese communist guerrilla
fighters?
Answer 5 – 10
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Vietcong
Question 5 - 20
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Name given to Saigon after the
communists took over South Vietnam?
Answer 5 – 20
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Ho Chi Minh City
Question 5 - 30
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Communist leader of the Vietminh who
fought to gain independence and then
reunify Vietnam under communism.
Answer 5 – 30
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Ho Chi Minh
Question 5 - 40
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Originally this was a Vietnamese
nationalists group fighting for
independence from France, but then
became the name for the North
Vietnamese communists.
Answer 5 – 40
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Vietminh
Question 5 - 50
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Pro-western leader of South Vietnam who
was later executed in a military coup
possibly approved by JFK.
Answer 5 – 50
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Ngo Dihn Diem