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Question English and French leaders attempted to appease Hitler when he made his first demands because?

Answer 1 – 10 They wanted to avoid another destructive war

Question When Hitler invaded Poland and France, he used a new method of warfare called?

Answer 1 – 20 Blitzkrieg (lightening war)

Question In the UN Security Council, what countries are permanent members with veto power?

Answer 1 – 30 United States U.S.S.R. (Russia) England France China

Question The American strategy for defeating Japan in the Pacific was called?

Answer 1 – 40 Island-Hopping

Question Truman said the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan were essential for?

Answer 1 – 50 Containing Communism

Question United Nations troops in Korea were driven back across the 38 th parallel by this new Communist power.

Answer 2 – 10 China

Question Joseph McCarthy created the media frenzy that began his communist witch hunt by?

Answer 2 – 20 Saying that he had a list of Communists employed in the government

Question The Truman Doctrine resulted in?

Answer 2 – 30 A pledge to fight communism with containment

Question The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to?

Answer 2 – 40 Help Western Europe’s economy recover from WWII

Question The “iron curtain” was a symbol of?

Answer 2 – 50 The division between Communist Eastern Europe and the Western democracies

Question The Korean War began when what happened?

Answer 3 – 10 North Korean troops invaded the south

Question “Brinkmanship” was?

Answer 3 – 20 Eisenhower’s policy of threatening nuclear war if the other side didn’t back down

Question The Berlin Wall was erected by who and why?

Answer 3 – 30 The Soviets to keep people from escaping into West Berlin

Question Rather than go to war over the “Cuban Missile Crisis”, JFK chose to?

Answer 3 – 40 Blockade Cuba to prevent more Soviet missile deliveries

Question The “Cuban Missile Crisis” forced the U.S. and Soviet Union to consider..?

Answer 3 – 50 The consequences of a nuclear war

Question Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War on television helped?

Answer 4 – 10 Create a credibility gap between the government and the people.

Question Define the Soviet Union’s new policy of perestroika (restructuring)

Answer 4 – 20 Involves a new structure which includes some capitalist components

Question The Soviet Union’s glasnost (openness) policy allowed the people to?

Answer 4 – 30 Openly discuss politics

Question The Pentagon Papers revealed that?

Answer 4 – 40 The government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam. Many officials privately opposed the war despite promoting it publicly.

Question A main reason President Johnson refused to order a full-scale invasion of North Vietnam was his fear that, like had happened in Korea, it would?

Answer 4 – 50 Bring China into the war

Question What event happened at My Lai that profoundly shocked Americans?

Answer 5 – 10 Unarmed Vietnamese civilians were massacred by U.S. troops

Question President Johnson refused to allow a full-scale attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail because?

Answer 5 – 20 It passed through Laos and Cambodia which were neutral in the war

Question The Vietcong’s power continued to increase in part because of?

Answer 5 – 30 The Vietcong’s use of terror and the effects of American napalm and agent orange

Question What are some reasons for the difficult nature of the Vietnam war for American soldiers?

Answer 5 – 40 Vietcong guerrilla fighting tactics Vietcong’s ability to melt into the civilian population American military tactics (napalm, agent orange, civilian deaths) turning many South Vietnamese to the Vietcong’s side

Question The collapse of the Soviet economy was mostly due to?

Answer 5 – 50 Inefficient central planning and huge expenditures on the arms race