Vietnam War
This Southeast Asia country was the primary battle ground of the Vietnam war.
What is Vietnam
This island nation was the center of the major Cold War conformation in 1962.
What is Cuba?
This type of weapon was at the center of the U.S. Soviets arms build up during the Cold War
What is a Nuclear weapon?
This man was the communist leader during the vietnam war?
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
He was the U.S president firing the Cuban missile crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The U.S was the first to develop nuclear weapons during this secret World War II project.
What is the Manhattan project?
This event in 1964 led to U.S involvement in Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
This Soviet leader agreed to place nuclear missiles in cuba.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
In 1949 the Soviet Union shocked the world by successfully testing this?
What is an atomic bomb?
Name the trail used by north vietnam to send supplies to the Vietnam cong in South Vietnam
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Instead of invading the U.S established this around Cuba to prevent more missiles from arriving
What is the Naval Blockade?
This super powerful nuclear weapon was tested by the U.S in 1952 and by the USSR in 1953.
What is the Hydrogen bomb?
Name the surprise attack in 1968 by the Viet Cong that turned American public opinion against the war.
What is the Tet Offensive
The crisis ended when the societies agreed to remove their missiles from cuba and the U.S agreed to remove missiles from this country
What is Turkey?
This Cold War concept meant that if one side launched nukes that both sides would be destroyed
What is mutually assured destruction(MAD)?