Random Cold War Facts
This was the first major military conflict of the Cold War?
What is the Korean War?
The country that tried to contain communism.
What is the US.
Who was the communist leader that was put in charge of the Northern Region of Vietnam after the first Indo-China War?
Who is Ho Chi Minh
After what war do we see new nation states arise from decolonization?
What is World War II.
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states such as the USSR, agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the Warsaw Pact.
This President went back on his campaign promise by invading Cambodia and further escalating the Vietnam War.
Who is President Richard Nixon.
The US backed leader in charge of the Saigon/South Vietnamese government.
Ngo Dinh Diem
Who was was President of the United States during the Gulf of Tonkin incident and further escalated US involvement in Indo-China?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson.
Which country lost colonial territories in East Asia, such as Korea after World War II?
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states such as the United States agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
What was the second major military conflict of the Cold War?
What is the Vietnam War?
What is the theory that President Eisenhower said would happen if we did not contain the spread of communism in Vietnam.
What is the Domino Theory.
What is the name of the Guerilla Forces for the North Vietnamese?
What is Viet Cong
After World War II, the United States granted this country independence.
What is the Philippines.
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and the US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is a ideological conflict?
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine.
What is the name of the surprise attack on South Vietnamese cities by Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces. Ultimately, it was a military loss for the Communists. But Americans watched on TV and were shocked and horrified that the U.S. was caught off-guard.
What is the Tet-Offensive
This country in South Asia gained independence from Great Britain in 1947.
What is India.
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1947, 1991
The city that was divided into occupied zones during the whole duration of the Cold War.
What is Berlin.
What is the term that resulted from Americans being told one narrative of the Vietnam War from Johnson's administration and a different narrative they are watching on TV?
What is the credibility gap.
The French lost control over this region during WWII and failed to re-establish colonial presence after WWII.
What is the Indo-China Region.