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USVA Cold War Exam Questions And AccurateAnswers (A+)
D. Agent Orange - ANSWER The U.S. military ised planes to spray this leaf-killing toxic
chemical which devastated the landscape of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh Trail - ANSWER This allowed Communists in North Vietnam to supply
military arms to the government opposition group in South Vietnam.
Domino theory - ANSWER This was based on the idea that countries on the brink of
communism were waiting to fall to communism one after the other.
Vietcong - ANSWER This was a South Vietnamese opposition group that carried out
thosands of assassinations of South Vietnamese government officals.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution - ANSWER This granted the U.S. president broad military powers
in Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh - ANSWER He led the Indochinese Communist Party and fought French,
Japanese, and U.S. forces for independence of Vietnam.
Operation Rolling Thunder - ANSWER This was the first extensive U.S. boming of North
Vietnam.
Dean Rusk - ANSWER As secretary of state in the Johnson administration, he argued for
U.S. escalation in Vietnam, claming that abandoning the South Vietnamese would cause
"disaster to peace".
napalm - ANSWER To expose Vietcong tunnels and hideouts, U.S. planes dropped this
, gasoline-based bomb that set fire to the jungles of Vietnam.
Dien Bien Phu - ANSWER When this fell to Vietnamese forces in 1959, the French began
to leave Vietnam.
Geneva Accords - ANSWER This temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel.
Vietminh - ANS This organization, created in 1941 by Vetnamese Communist and other
nationalistic groups announced its sole objective was independence from foreign rule.
Ngo Dinch Diem - ANS This anti -Communist president of South Vietnam called off
elections that would have reunited Vietnam.
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. - ANS This is the conclusion of the Warren Commission
after investigating the assassination of JFK.
banned nuclear testing. - ANSWER The hot line established in 1963 did all of the
following except
attorney general. - ANSWER Kennedy appointed his brother, Robert, to serve as
offer foreign aid to Latin American countries. - ANSWER The Economic Opportunity Act
did all of the following except
Massachusetts. - ANSWER John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee for President in
1960, was a senator from
proposed by Kennedy and succeeded. - ANSWER The Peace Corps, a program of
volunteer assistance to developing nations, was
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