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This Canal in Egypt was nationalized in 1956, leading the British, French, and Israel to plan an invasion.
What is the Suez Canal.
100
Leader of North Vietnam, fought against the French and the Americans.
What is Ho Chi Minh.
100
Years of the Korean War.
What is 1950-1953.
100
Name of the U.S. Space Agency, created by President Eisenhower.
What is NASA.
100
Name of China's first Communist leader.
What is Chairman Mao Zedong (Tsetung).
200
Egyptian leader who nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956.
Who is Gamal Nasser.
200
In January 1968, a Vietnamese holiday in which numerous attacks were launched against U.S. troops by the North Vietnamese.
What is Tet.
200
Boundary separating North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel.
200
Name of the first American in Space.
Who is Alan Shepard.
200
Chinese nationalists forced to flee to this island in 1949 when the communists won the civil war.
What is Taiwan (Formosa).
300
Prior to the creation of the nation of Israel, the name for the land.
What is Palestine.
300
An attack in 1965 on two American ships by the North Vietnamese navy, prompting President Johnson to send American combat troops to Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
300
Amphibious landing between North Korean enemy lines in 1950, split the war into two fronts.
What is the Inchon Landing.
300
First dog in space.
Who is Laika.
300
1950s Program to rapidly modernize China, set up backyard metal furnaces to create steel.
What is the Great Leap Forward.
400
Name for the organization of Middle Eastern Oil Nations who control the price and supply of the world oil supply.
What is OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries).
400
President Nixon's process for gradual American withdrawal from Vietnam, placing the responsibility upon the South Vietnamese to protect themselves.
What is Vietnamization.
400
American forces crossed this river boundary between North Korea and China, prompting the Chinese army to enter the war.
What is the Yalu River.
400
First Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
What is Apollo XI.
400
1960s Program to get rid of "Old" China, leading to a persecution of intellectuals and adults who opposed "New" China led by Youth leaders.
What is the Cultural Revolution
500
As a consequence of the U.S. support of Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, this occurred in the U.S.
What is an Oil Embargo.
500
Name for the major American military tactic used during the Vietnam War.
What is Search and Destroy.
500
Name for the American general who designed the Inchon Landing. Later fired by President Truman.
Who was Douglas MacArthur.
500
American president who promised the American public that we would land on the Moon by the end of the 1960s.
Who is John F. Kennedy.
500
First American president to visit China.
Who is President Richard Nixon.