History Review Grade 11 Cold War!

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What was the name of the communist leader of China in 1949?

Mao Zedong

What is the name for the communist nation of China established in 1949?

People's Republic of China

Who was the leader of South Korea during the Korean War?

Syngman Rhee

Who was the leader of North Korea during the Korean War?

Kim-il-Sung

What was the name of the communist nation of North Korea during the Korean War?

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

What was the name of the democratic nation of South Korea during the Korean War?

Republic of Korea

What was the name of the Chinese army that crossed into Korea during the Korean War?

People’s Volunteer Army

What was the name of the North Korean army during the Korean War?

Korean People's Army

The US document was released in 1950 outlining the need for military expenditures

NSC-68

Which nation did NOT join the UN army sent to Korea in 1950 out of Canada, Mexico, Australia, and Greece?

Mexico

Who was the commander of the UN army sent to Korea in 1950?

Douglas MacArthur

Who was appointed as the new commander of the UN army in 1951?

Matthew Ridgeway

Where did the US and UN forces land in 1951 in order to begin their assault on North Korea forces?

Inchon

North Korean forces pushed South in 1950 and surrounded the South Korean and American forces in which area?

Pusan

What is the capital or North Korea

Pyongyang

Chinese forces crossed which river in 1950 in order to attack the UN forces?

Yalu River

The border between North and South Korea is situated where?

38th parallel.

The Australians and Canadians fought this vital battle to stop Chinese forces from assaulting Seoul

Battle of Kapyong

Where was Mike, the first hydrogen bomb, tested?

Marshall islands

What was the name of Eisenhower’s Secretary of State

John Foster Dulles

What is the name of the espionage organization that was established in 1947?

Central Intelligence Agency

What is the name of the international organization established by Eisenhower to prevent the spread of communism in Asia?

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)

What was the name of the US senator who was responsible for the extreme response to communism in the US during the 1940’s and 1950’s?

Joseph McCarthy

What was the name of Stalin’s Chief of Secret Police?

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria

What was the official cause of Joseph Stalin’s Death?

Hemorrhagic Stroke

What is the name given to the idea that all communism in the world stems from one source?

Monolithic View of Communism

What was the official name of Khrushchec’s Secret Speech?

On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences

What was the name of the nation established on the island of Taiwan in 1949?

The Republic of China (ROC)

Which nation was granted political and economic independence in the year 1955?

Austria

What was the name of the international conference held between world powers in 1955?

Geneva Summit

A failed revolution occurred in which European country in 1956?

Hungary

What is the name of the canal that was seized in 1956 by the Western Powers?

Suez Canal

Who was not involved in the invasion of Egypt in 1956?

United States

What is the name of the Canadian politician who helped the UN solve the crisis in Egypt in 1956

Lester B. Pearson

What was the name of the Egyptian leader who sought to nationalize the nation’s resources?

Gamal Abdel Nasser

What was the name of the satellite launched into space?

Sputnik

What is the name of the organization formed by the US government in order to respond to the USSR space program?

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

What is the name of the report partially responsible for convincing the US government of the Missile Gap with the USSR

The Gaither Report.

What was the name of the -2 pilot who was captured and interrogated by the USSR in 1960?

Gary Powers

Harry Truman met with his military commander on which island in the Pacific in 1950?

Wake Island

Which Asian nation did NOT have a significant American military presence at the conclusion of the Korean War?

Vietnam

What is the term used to describe going to the very edge of nuclear war?

Brinkmanship.

What was the original name for Peaceful Coexistence, coined by Georgy Malenkov?

New Course

This Hungarian politician came into power in 1956 promising political reform and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact, but was quickly deposed by the USSR

Imre Nagy

The Eisenhower Doctrine proclaimed that the US would intervene in order to stop the spread of communism where?

Middle East.

Who was the leader of the GDR during the building of the Berlin Wall?

Walter Ulbricht

What was the name of JFK’s foreign policy regarding the USSR?

Flexible Response

What was the key difference between the foreign policies of Ike and JFK?

Use of Brinkmanship

Khrushchev and JFK first met at which international conference?

Vienna Summit

The CIA’s plan to help Cuban exiles invade Cuba and depose Fidel Castro was known as what?

Bay of Pigs

How did JFK end his Berlin speech of 1963?

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

This US diplomat was stopped and searched while attempting to visit a theatre in East Berlin

E. Allen Lightner

US and USSR tanks had a standoff at which checkpoint between East and West Berlin?

Checkpoint Charlie

In the year 1953, riots broke out in which region under the influence of the USSR?

East Germany

Who did JFK appoint as his personal correspondence in Germany during the Berlin Crisis of 1961?

Lucius D. Clay

What is JFK’s full name?

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Which was not a territory acquired by the US after the Spanish-American War?

Colombia

Which amendment allowed the US to take economic and political control over Cuba

Platt Amendment

This veteran from the Spanish-American War would go on to become President of the United States

Theodore Roosevelt (Teddie)

What is the name of the US naval base stationed in Cuba?

Guantanamo Bay

Fidel Castro overthrew which dictator in 1958?

Fulgencio Batista.

Fidel Castro was a member of which political party?

Cuban People’s Party

What was Fidel Castro’s occupation prior to the Cuban Revolution

Lawyer

What was the title of the speech Castro gave while on trial in 1953?

History Will Absolve Me

Who was Fidel Castro’s second in command?

Che Guevara

What was the name for the Cuban army?

Junta

Fidel Castro fought his guerrilla war in which region?

Sierra Maestra Mountains

The US would stage military exercises in which country in order to intimidate Cuba?

Puerto Rico

What does IRBM stand for?

Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile

Kennedy placed the US military into which state of alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Defcon 2

Who was secretary of defense and chief Kennedy adviser during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Robert McNamara

Which former US ambassador to the USSR helped JFK respond to Khrushchev’s demands during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Llewellyn Thompson

What was the name of JFK’s brother who helped him secure a deal with Khrushchev’s demands during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Robert Kennedy

Who was the USSR ambassador to the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Anatoly Dobrynin

Which Cuban resource was most heavily invested in by American companies prior to the Cuban Revolution?

Cane Sugar

Which US president did Ho Chi Minh first reach out to in order to secure aid for Vietnamese independence

Woodrow Wilson

What was the name of young Vietnamese Emperor appointed by the French to rule Vietnam?

Bao Dai

What does the name Ho Chi Minh mean?

Bringer of Light

Who was Ho Chi Minh’s top military general

General Giap

Harry Truman established which military advisory group in Vietnam in 1950

Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG)

What became the capital of North Vietnam

Hanoi

What became the capital of South Vietnam?

Saigon

After the fall of Saigon in 1975 it was renamed to what?

Ho Chi Minh City

Where did the French make their last stand during the First Indochina War?

DienBienphu

These accords initially established the division between North and South Vietnam?

Geneva Accords

The border between North and South Vietnam was situated where?

17th Parallel

Who severed as Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson?

Dean Rusk

Who severed as Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson?

Robert McNamara

Which general was Kennedy’s top military adviser?

Maxwell Taylor

Ngo Dinh Diem launched a cultural war against whom during his reign?

Buddhists

Who was the first lady of South Vietnam under Diem?

Madame Nhu

Diem and his brother launched this program in order to counter guerrilla activity in South Vietnam.

Strategic Hamlet Program

American advisers and South Vietnamese forces were soundly defeated in which battle during 1963?

Battle of Ap Bac

Who was appointed as US ambassador to Vietnam in 1963?

Henry Cabot Lodge II

Who succeeded Diem after his assassination?

General Minh

Who commanded the US forces in Vietnam during the war?

William Westmoreland

Which incident gave President Johnson the support he required to take military action in Vietnam?

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Which US Navy vessel came under attack along the coast of North Vietnam in 1964?

USS Maddox

Johnson ran against who in the general election of 1964?

Barry Goldwater

Johnson established which group in order to advise him on the war situation in Vietnam?

Working Group