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What document was created in August 1941, providing a blueprint for the strategic air campaign against
the Axis? - The Air War Planning Document 1.
By D-Day, 6 June 1944, the Allied Air Forces dominated the s...
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What document was created in August 1941, providing a blueprint for the strategic air campaign against
the Axis? - ✔✔The Air War Planning Document 1.
By D-Day, 6 June 1944, the Allied Air Forces dominated the skies of Europe with new aircraft, tactics and
___ - ✔✔Superior numbers.
Name the TSgt who was liberated by the British army as a POW in Germany in 1945 and later became
the first CMSAF in 1967. - ✔✔TSgt Paul Airey. (Also received the first Air Force POW medal in 1988.)
The first Tuskegee Airmen to fight in WWII were members of the ___ Squadron. - ✔✔99th Fighter
Squadron
At what battle on 4 June 1942 did US Navy pilots sink four Japanese carriers and turn the tide of war in
the Pacific - ✔✔The Battle of Midway.
The Enola Gay, piloted by ___, dropped a uranium bomb (known as "Little Boy") over Hiroshima on 6
Aug 1945, destroying nearly five square miles of the city and killing 80,000 people. - ✔✔Col Paul Tibbets
Who commanded Bockscar, the WWII aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki? - ✔✔Maj
Charles W. Sweeney
Operation Vittles, an expanded cargo support effort against the Soviet blockade, showed the use of
nonviolent airpower to defuse a potentially disastrous confrontation and laid the foundation for ___. -
✔✔The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
On 14 October 1947, who became the first person to break the sound barrier when his Bell X-1
"Glamorous Glennis" reached Mach 1.06 at 43,000 feet? - ✔✔Charles "Chuck" Yeager
,What did the Air Force rapidly begin to develop after the Korean conflict? - ✔✔Long-range missiles and
space-based technology
What marked the beginning of the Space Age and sparked the space race between the Soviets and the
US? - ✔✔The Soviets successfully launched the Sputnik 1 satellite into Earth's orbit on 4 October 1957.
During the Cold War, the Air Force concentrated on unmanned missions to fulfill national security needs.
What did this include? - ✔✔Providing space-based reconnaissance, early warning of any missile attack
on North America; and worldwide communications platforms for strategic command and control.
The CIA planned the 1961 invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in hopes that the Cuban people would
overthrow Castro. Who were used as troops? - ✔✔Cuban exiles. (They suffered a crushing defeat.)
In 1963, the Soviet Union and Cubans began to build what in Cuba? - ✔✔Intermediate- and medium-
range ballistic missile complexes
How was Soviet construction of missile complexes in Cuba confirmed? - ✔✔Through Air Force
reconnaissance flights. (First with high-altitude U-2 aircraft, followed by low-level RF-101s and RB-66s.)
While Strategic Air Command and Tactical Air Command prepared for a possible invasion of and war
with Cuba, what did President Kennedy do to neutralize the Cuban Missile Crisis? - ✔✔He imposes a
naval blockade to prevent any more material from reaching Cuba and negotiated with Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev to remove the missiles.
When Cuban air defenses shot down a U-2 piloted by Maj Rudolf Anderson, what did the Joint Chiefs of
Staff recommend? - ✔✔An immediate air strike against Cuba. (President Kennedy decided to wait.)
The US agreed not to invade Cuba in exchange for removal of Soviet missiles from the island. What did
the US also secretly agree to do? - ✔✔Remove US missiles from Turkey.
What operation did President Kennedy order in April 1962 to train the South Vietnamese Air Force,
while secretly launching attack missions against Communist efforts in Laos and South Vietnam? -
✔✔Operation Farmgate
,What operation was a program of measured and limited air action against selected military targets in
North Vietnam and, unfortunately, the US losses mounted without any visible effect from the air
campaign? - ✔✔Operation Rolling Thunder.
In what year did President Nixon end the draft in favor of an all-volunteer military? - ✔✔1973
Name the highly accomplished, innovative genius who founded Red Flag - ✔✔Col Richard "Moody"
Suter
List two post-Vietnam technological improvements and the aircraft that exemplified them. - ✔✔Highly
maneuverable dogfighting aircraft armed with missiles and cannon (F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon);
and 2) detection avoidance (F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter.)
Precision technologies changed Air Force doctrine from its focus on strategic bombing to ___ bombing
with no collateral damage. - ✔✔Pinpoint
Why did the Air Force and Army update the air-land battle tactical doctrine published in Field Manual
100-5? - ✔✔To overcome numerically superior Warsaw Pact forces.
Which aircraft was procured to make deep air attacks on enemy armies to isolate them on the
battlefield and provide close air support to Army ground forces? - ✔✔The A-10 Thunderbolt II
What operation in April 1980 led to disaster at the Desert One refueling site? - ✔✔Operation Rice Bowl.
(Subsequent inquiries led to a reorganization and revitalization of US Special Operations Forces.)
In April 1986, President Reagan mobilized England-based F-111s to strike Libya during Operation ___ -
✔✔Eldorado Canyon
Operation Just Cause, in 1989 tested air operations in Panama. What aircraft debuted during the
operation? - ✔✔The F-117 Nighthawk
, Which doctrine was based on the theory that superpower strategic nuclear forces could be sized and
protected to survive a nuclear attack and retaliate with sufficient force to destroy the enemy? - ✔✔The
doctrine of mutually assured destruction.
What was the Missile Defense Alarm System? - ✔✔The first attempt at a space-based, long-range
missile attack detection and warning system.
What treaty was signed on 26 May 1972, limiting the US and USSR to two Anti-Ballistic Missile sites
each? - ✔✔The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
What treaty limited the number of nuclear weapons held by the US and USSR, with the objective of
freezing numerical growth and de-stabilizing characteristics of each side's strategic nuclear forces? -
✔✔The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
Post-Vietnam, what type of technological advances significantly enhanced weather and communications
support? - ✔✔Satellite advances.
The formation of what command was announced on 21 June 1984 - ✔✔Air Force Space Command.
In March 1985, who initiated major changes in Soviet-American relations? - ✔✔Soviet Communist Party
General-Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev
In December 1987, what did the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty eliminate? - ✔✔Medium-
range nuclear missiles, including US Air Force ground-launched cruise missiles.
What event led to the reunification of Germany in October 1990? - ✔✔The opening of the Berlin Wall.
What August 1991 event led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union? - ✔✔The coup against Soviet
Communist Party General-Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, led by Boris Yeltsin
List four ways in which US nuclear strategy changed significantly after the dissolution of the Soviet
Union. - ✔✔The US 1) Signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I; 2)signed the Strategic Arms
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