Cold War General Questions
What two major countries were involved in the Cold War?
The United States and the Soviet Union
The Soviets and the ___________ were influencing the northern part of Korea to turn communist.
Chinese
The counter culture was protesting about this war.
Vietnam War
This was termed for the number of births that happened following WWII.
Babyboom
This was the name given to the military group fighting for the North Vietnamese.
Vietcong
Name one of the two conferences that helped lead to the distrust of Josef Stalin.
Yalta or Potsdam
Who was the President of the United States during the Korean War?
Harry Truman
This music festival was held in 1969 in New York State to protest the war in Vietnam.
Woodstock
What piece of legislation helped returning soldiers from war to help pay for college tuition?
The G.I. Bill
This is the plan the United States used to get men into the military by the time they turned 18.
The Draft
This was the idea that if one country fell to communism others would follow soon.
The Domino Theory
America does this to make sure that communism did not spread during the Cold War.
Containment
Hawks
This man created the Polio vaccine during the Cold War.
Jonas Salk
This event made the United States enter the war in Vietnam (hint: It is closely related to a brand of a play truck a lot of kids play with).
The Gulf of Tonkin
Name three countries that fell to communism during the Cold War.
China, North Korea, Vietnam, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Cuba.
This parallel line divides North and South Korea.
The 38th Parallel
What was the name of the university where a protest turned deadly and others were injured in 1970?
Kent State
The ______________ gained the most popularity in most households during the 1950's.
Television
This offensive made the United States and South Korean armies the need to evacuate the U.S. embassy in Saigon.
The Tet Offensive
This is the political barrier that Stalin created that cut off Western Europe from the east.
The Iron Curtain
What did the United Nations create for the first time during the Korean War?
A multi-national peace keeping force
Mr. P believed that this man was the best musician ever. We played a clip of him in class playing the national anthem backwards and with his left hand at Woodstock.
Jimi Hendrix
The fastest growing part of the United States during the 1950's was which of the following:
A. Cities
B. Rural
C. Suburbs
D. Foreign Countries
Suburbs
These were leaked documents that stated the United States was involved in the Vietnam War way before they originally declared.
The Pentagon Papers