Straight Facts
About how many decades did the Cold War span?
4
When U.S. troops first entered the Vietnam War in 1965, many Americans
approved of the policy
The 1960 presidential race was the first time candidates made substantial use of
Television
In the long run, the Truman Doctrine committed the United States to
a pledge to fight communism
Although regular broadcasts had begun in the early 1940s, television did not become popular until the 1950s because there were few stations before then and
television sets were expensive.
Which of the following Presidents served throughout the Cold War?
a. Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.
b. Lyndon B. Johnson and Woodrow Wilson
c. James Buchanan and Harry S. Truman.
d. None of the above.
A.
Approximately how many Americans were killed in the Vietnam War? (within 2000)
58,000
President Kennedy’s goal in the space race with the Soviet Union was for the United States to be the first to
Put a man on the moon
The Korean War began when
North Korean troops invaded the south
At the Yalta Conference in February 1945, Allied leaders agreed to
divide Germany among four Allied powers.
On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy announced that American spy planes had taken aerial photographs showing that the Soviet Union had placed long-range missiles in
Cuba.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
What was the name of the military tactic used by Vietnamese forces in the jungles that allowed them to attack quickly and avoid army vs. army battles
Guerilla Warfare
What military solution did the United States come to after discovering Soviet missiles in Cuba?
A naval blockade
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed for the purpose of
mutual defense.
In 1968, after people from the Democratic Party announced they would try and challenge him, President Johnson announced on television that he
would not run for reelection
The man accused of killing President Kennedy was
Lee Harvey Oswald
What confirmed that the government had not been honest with Americans about the Vietnam War?
the Pentagon Papers
Kennedy’s “flexible response” plan called for
buildup of conventional weapons.
In an attempt to prevent a Communist revolution in Asia, the United States first sent $2 billion in aid beginning in the mid-1940s to
Chinese Nationalists
The purpose of the project code-named “Venona,” an element of the post-World War II Red Scare, was to
crack the Soviet spy code.
What did the "Cold" in Cold War indicate?
No large-scale fighting directly between the two sides.
After the Tet Offensive in 1968, the media, believing they were lied to,
openly criticized the effort in Vietnam.
Popular support for Senator Joseph McCarthy began to fade when
millions watched him bully witnesses in televised hearings investigating the Army
The purpose of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to
spark a revolution against Fidel Castro and the Communist Nation of Cuba.
Due to the Bracero Program, the nation witnessed a sharp rise during the 1940s and 1950s in the number of immigrants from
Mexico