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- Which country intervened on behalf of the North Koreans
- China
- When the Korean War started the US planned to
- send troups immediatley
- What brought the Chinese into the Korean Conflict
- US Firing artillery across the Yalu River
- The border between North and South Korea before the Korean war was
- 38th parallel
- The border between North and South Korea after the Korean war was the
- 38th parallel
- The Us General who pushed the North Koreans back to the Yalu river was
- McArthur
- The president of the US during the war was
- Truman
- After WWII the USSR supported and occupied which section of Korea
- North Korea
- After WWII the US supported and occupied which section of Korea
- South Korea
- Which country was the afressor at the start of the Korean Conflict
- North Korea
- The area separating the North and the South in Korea is called
- The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
- The US attacked the North Koreans with a suprise amphibious assault in their first offensive in
- Inchon
- The general who took over for the General fired by President Truman was
- Ridgeway
- The capital of the North Korean state was
- Pyongyang
- The capital of South Korea was
- Seoul
- What percentages of UN troops fighting in Korea were American
- 70%
- How far did the North Koreans with Chinese assistance push the UN forces after China joined the conflict
- almost 100 miles past the 38th parallel
- What was the opinoin of americans when Truman fired General MacArthur
- they were outraged because he was a WWII hero
- At the conclusion of the conflict, the war could be considered
- a stalemate
- What was the final straw in the fight between MacArthur and Truman
- MacArthurs letter to the news agencies and politicians
- Which Chinese government was a member of the UN's Security Council until 1973
- Nationalists
- The leader of the Nationalists in the Chinese Revolution was
- Chiang Kai-shek
- The leader of the Communist in the Chinese revolution was
- Moa Zedong
- The Nationalist leader fled China for Taiwan, known then as
- Formosa
- The Communists in China renamed the country the
- Peoples Republic of China
- Dunring the Chinese civil war, the communists won because they controlled the
- country side
- During the Chinese Civil wae, the nationalists lost because they controlled the
- cities
- Mao Zedong plan to industrialize China was called
- The Great Leap Forward
- The Great Cultural Revolution was
- a counter-revolution within china was
- The Nationalist leader fled China for Tiawan, known then as
- Formosa
- During the Chinese civil war, the communists won because they controlled the
- country side
- during the chinese civil war, the nationalists lost because they controlled the
- cities
- Mao Zedong plan to industrialize Cina was called
- The Great Leap Forward
- The Radical students who supported Mao were known as
- the Red Guards
- temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement between the opponents
- armistice
- to enter by force and conquer
- invasion
- the area in Korea which separates North and South Korea
- 38th parallel
- a govt whose affairs are directed by an outside authority
- puppet regime
- a situation in which further action is blocked or deadlocked
- stalemate
- a return attack or a counter assault
- counterattack
- An area of land established by the July 27, 1953 Armistice Agreement along the approximate line of ground contact betwwn the opposing forces at the timethe truce ended the Korean War
- DMZ (demilitarized zone)
- Large bore crew-served mounted firearms
- artillery
- executed by corrdinated action of land, sea, and air forces organized for invasion
- amphibious landing
- a massive inexplorable force, campaign, movement,or object that crushes whatever is in its path
- juggernaut
- The president of the US during the Bay of Pigs was
- Kennedy
- The President of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis was
- Kennedy
- The leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis was
- Khrushev
- The USSR attempted to build missile bases on what island
- Cuba
- The leader of Cuba before the revolution was
- Baptista
- The revolutionaries called themselves
- the 26th of July movement
- What happenedto Baptista after the revolution
- he fled the country
- the US was worried about what happened in Cuba because
- all of the above
- how did the US find out about missile bases in Cuba
- spies and cuba and planes flying over cuba
- The US decided to do what about the second letter sent by the USSR
- ignore it and follow the first letter
- the missiles in Cuba had the maximum capability of reaching as far as
- New York
- At the conclusion of the Missile Crisis the USSR was
- forced to remove all materials for Cuba
- at teh conclusion of the missile crisis the US was
- forced to promise not to invade Cuba
- The US President was angry because the USSR was able to use the US missiles in Turkey against them, even though he had
- already ordered them removed
- the raw materials in Cuba, had which the US wanted, was
- sugar cane
- the group of conter revolutionaries who attacked the Bay of Pigs were
- Cuban exiles trained by the CIA
- The forces attacking the Bay of Pigs never recieved what from the US
- Military Aide during the assault
- Castro asked for military aide from the USSR because
- he feared US Attack
- The US decided to do what to stop the USSR missiles from being built in Cuba
- Blockade USSR ships
- The USSR was angry the US wanted missiles out of Cuba because
- the US had missiles in Turkey
- The main function of the Security Council of the US is to
- investigate world conflicts
- The UN world court is located in
- The Netherlands
- All member nations are represented in which part of the UN
- the General Assembly
- The General Assembly meets
- atleast once a year
- Each Nation's voting strenghth in the General Assembly is according to
- the principle of one vote per nation
- Which organ of the UN was given primary responsibility for investigating situations that threaten World Peace
- the secutity council
- the non-premenent members of the Security council are selected by the
- general assembly
- the security council has the power to
- recommend the use of force to stop agression
- the veto power in the UN is held by
- the 5 permenent members of the secutity council
- the country that has the most often blocked actions in the UN by use of the veto is
- the Soviet Union
- one function of the economic and social council is to
- direct the economies of underdeveloped nations
- a territory under the protection of the UN but administered by a member nation is called
- trusteeship
- A leading member of the UN that was never a member of the League of Nations is
- the US
- A major criticism of the voting procedure in the security council is that
- the soviet union has as much power as the US
- The distribution of pwer within the security council is based on the principle that
- agreement amoong the major nations is necessary if the organiztion is to succeed
- to fill the office of secretary general of the UN, a person must be
- recommended by the General assembly and appointed by the security council
- the trusteeship council no long has much importance because
- no trust territory remains
- which is a major obstacle to UN efforts to deal with international political issues
- effective UN action requires cooperation among the major powers
- which group of conditions is most characteristic of Thir World or emerging nations
- poverty, illiteracy, growing population
- the two nations that emerged as major world powers following WWII were
- the US and the Soviet Union
- the cold war involved tension between
- the soviet and western powers
- in 1947, the US responded to the threat of Soviet expansion by
- issuing the Truman Doctrine
- the Marshall Plan was designed to
- help european nations recover economically from the war
- The Truman Doctrine stated that they US would
- support free peoples who were resisting communist take overs
- Berlin was divided into four parts after WWII the US, the Soviet Union, France and
- Great Britain
- Part of the UN which oversees legal issuses of member
- International Court of Justice
- US plan to support countries being threatened by communists
- Truman Doctrine
- US plan to support European nations economically until they got back on their feet at end of WWII
- Marshal Plan
- Part of the UN where all member nations have a vote
- General Assembly
- Part of the UN which attempts to improve living conditions
- Economic and Social Council
- Part of the UN which oversees nations attempting to get on their feet
- Trusteeship Council
- Treaty of the Soviet Bloc countries
- Warsaw Pact
- Part of the UN with the only "real" power
- Security Council
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NATO
- The administrative branch of the UN
- Secretariat
- The first puppet leader in South Vietnam was
- Diem
- The North Vietnamese military arm in the South were called
- the Viet Cong
- The battle which finally force the French to give up their fight in Vietnam was
- Dien Bien Phu
- The leader of the North Vietnamese was
- Ho Chi Min
- The US was able to send ground troops into Vietnam because of
- the Gulf of Tonkin
- The theory "if one country called to communism, those surrounding it will also fall" is know as
- the Domino theory
- After the Tet offesive, US Commanders wer very worried about what, to show the American people the military was actually winning the war
- body counts
- The main supply route for the North Vietnamese military was called
- The Ho Chi Minh Trail
- In an attempt to defoliate the jungles, the US used what dropped from planes
- Napalm and Agent Orange
- The event which affected the US ability to win the wa, was
- the Tet Offensive
- The document which outlomed the falsities of the Gulf of Tonkin incident was called
- the Pentagon papers
- President Nixon's attempt at turning the war over to the South vietnamesse was called
- Vietnamessation
- The battle which many felt resembled Dean Bien Phu for the US was fought at
- Khe Sahn
- The college protest where National Guardsmen killed students was at
- Kent State U
- The incident in which a US platoon destroyed a Vietnamese village and killed all of its inhabitants was
- the My Lai massacre
- The US officer who was found responsible for the massacre was
- 2LT Calley
- The capital city of North Vietnam is
- Hanoi
- The tactics of the Viet Cong was called
- guerilla warfare
- Once the Vietnam War ended the new name for Saigon was
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Most US soldiers being drafted for the Vietnam war were from
- poor families
- A war fought without the use of nuclear weopons in the nuclear age is considered
- a non-conventional war
- the French wanted to gain control over Vietnam after WWII because they wanted
- all of the above
- When the French involvement in Vietnam ended the US refused to participate in the
- Paris Conference
- The most effective anti war group in the US was the
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War
- Where was teh battle scenes in We Were Soldiers located
- Il Drang Valley
- Which US President sent advisors to Vietnam first
- Kennedy
- Which US President began carpet-bombing campaigns in Vietnam in the hope of ending the war
- Nixon
- Which US president was in office when the war finally ends for the US?
- Nixon
- Teh Secretary of State who negotiated the US withdrawl of Vietnam was
- Kissinger
- The North Vietnamese Military believed it would take 2 years to overthrow the Soth after the US leaves. How long did it actually take
- 55 days
- In 1917 the British promised to set up a homeland for the Jewish people in what document
- the Balfour Declaration
- Where was the homeland supposed to be located
- Palestice
- Teh movement that called for the Jewish people to have their own hoemland was called
- Zionism
- Teh end of WWII calese what to occur in Palestine
- Huge Jewish immigration into the area
- Who was the first to propose the creaton of two searate states in Palestine
- The British
- in the 1940s what put pressure on the British to increase teh number of Jews allowed to immigrate
- The holocaust
- who actually passed the resolution calling for the partition of Palestine into 2 states
- the UN
- What area woud be considered an international zone in this resolution
- Jerusalem
- Which group declared their statehood first
- the Arabs
- Teh name of the new state was
- Isreal
- Who recognized the new state within hours of its proclamation
- the US
- Which of the following countries was involved in the first attack on isreal
- Iran
- At the conclusion of the first Arab Isreali conflict who increased their territory by 50%
- Isreal
- Why would the Arab nations not set up a Paelsinian state
- in definace of the UN
- Who enforced an economic boycott against Isreal and against Western companies doing drugs
- The Arab League
- In 1955 Egypt made an arms deal with
- the USSR
- The Sinai Campaign of 1956 was initiated by
- Isreal
- The term "fedayeen" means
- Arab Guerilla forces
- During the 10 years of peace between 1956-1967 Egypt became allied with Jordan and Syria
- Jordan and Syria
- at the conclusion of the 1967 war Isreal seized what from Jordan
- Jerusalem
- Arab terroristes murdered 11 Isrealis at what event in Munich
- The Olympic Games
- The Egyptian President who died in 1970 was
- Nassar
- The Prime minister of Isreal in 1978 was
- Menachem Begin
- The last Arab Isreali war was called the
- Yom Kippur War
- What country did Isreali forces briefly occupy to end PLO activities there
- Lebanon