Impact on the United States
Global Impact
The Korean War
The Vietnam Conflict
Korea and Vietnam Today
100
American astronauts traveled to and landed on this in 1969.
What is the moon?
100
The Berlin Wall was constructed in this year.
What is 1961?
100
This is the capital of North Korea.
What is Pyongyang?
100
Opponents of the Vietnam Conflict were known as this.
What were doves?
100
This South Korean electronics company produced Korea's first air conditioners, radios, TVs, refrigerators, and washing machines in the 1960s.
What is LG?
200
Americans felt fearful and paranoid when they learned that this country had tested a hydrogen bomb.
What is the Soviet Union?
200
About 2.5 million East Germans fled to this German city in the beginning of the Cold War.
What was West Berlin?
200
The Korean War began soon after which nation became communist?
What is China?
200
This number of U.S. soldiers fought in the Vietnam Conflict.
What is 2 million?
200
This industry in Vietnam is increasing in popularity and aiding its economy.
What is tourism?
300
This government agency performs secret operations around the world.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
300
This term means to bring under control and governance as a subject.
What is subjugate?
300
This U.S. general was in command of the UN forces during the Korean War.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
300
Much of the fighting during the Vietnam Conflict took place in what two types of areas in South Vietnam?
What were jungles and villages?
300
Current night-time NASA satellite images of this country reveal a lack of electricity.
What is North Korea?
400
A positive result of the Cuban missile crisis was the creation of a telephone "hotline" so President Kennedy and this Soviet Union leader could speak directly to each other at a moment's notice.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
400
Poland, Hungary, Eastern Germany, and Bulgaria were included in this during the Cold War.
What was the Soviet sphere of influence?
400
The Korean War ended in this, since neither side seemed capable of winning.
What is a violent stalemate?
400
Prior to World War II, Vietnam was a part of this, a French colony in Asia.
What was Indochina?
400
This is the current political system in Vietnam in which the means of production are publicly or commonly owned and controlled cooperatively.
What is socialism?
500
This speech made by President Eisenhower informed the UN about the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
What was Atoms for Peace?
500
The Truman Doctrine initially gave aid to these two countries to help them resist Soviet control.
What are Greece and Turkey?
500
During the Korean War, North Korea received help from which two communist nations?
What are the Soviet Union and China?
500
About 500 Vietnamese villagers were killed during this event of the Vietnam Conflict.
What was the My Lai search-and-destroy mission?
500
Kia Motors sold its first cars in America in this year.
What is 1994?