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WHH 11.3 Quiz Timm
2 week anniversary of being sick
Term | Definition |
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Soviet Satellites Rebel: Who? | Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania |
Soviet Satellites Rebel: Why? | to protect the USSR and have further communist influence |
Soviet Satellites Rebel: Outcomes? | |
Who built the Berlin Wall? | Soviet Union |
Purpose of The Berlin Wall | To keep eastern germans from migrating to East Berlin |
Where was The Berlin Wall? | Surrounded the entirety of East Berlin |
U.S. response to Cuba turning communist | U.S. wasn't happy, attempted to assassinate Castro several times |
Bay of Pigs Invasion | The unsuccessful attempt to invade Cuba by the U.S. |
The Cuban Missile Crisis Summary | Panic breaks out when, in response to Americas missiles in Turkey, the Soviet Union hid missiles in Cuba, effectively creating a stalemate. |
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Cuba's Actions | * Denied housing Soviet missiles *Housed Soviet missiles |
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union's Actions | * would only remove missiles from Cuba after U.S.A removed missiles from Turkey |
The Cuban Missile Crisis: U.S.A.'s Actions | * Quarantined Cuba once they learned of the missiles housed there |
The Cuban Missile Crisis: How did it end? | Both the U.S. and USSR removed their missiles from Turkey and Cuba respectively |
The Vietnam War: Communist Leaders | Ho Chi Minh led the communist party in Vietnam, supported by Soviet Leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev |
The Vietnam War: Who supported each side? | The Soviet Union and China supported the North, and the U.S. the South |
The Vietnam War: Domino Theory | The idea that, if Vietnam had been successfully turned communist, more and more countries would be turned until communism reached North Americ |
The Vietnam War: U.S. Involvement | US supported Southern Vietnam, sent men there to fight |
The Vietnam War: Problems with the election | |
The Vietnam War: Problems with fighting the enemy | |
The Vietnam War: Problems with the draft | Men in college excused from draft, so mostly poor, uneducated men sent |
The Vietnam War: Problems with using nuclear weapons | |
Gulf of Tonkin: What happened? | the USS Maddox reported torpedo attacks from Vietnamese forces |
Gulf of Tonkin: Impact? | a step too far, President Lyndon Johnson could now “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.” starts US involvement in Vietnamese war |
Gulf of Tonkin: What was the controversy? | whether or not the USS Maddox was actually attacked by communists, or if an attack happened at all. |
The Vietnam War Protests: Why? | Images of mass amounts of dead young americans sent citizens spiraling, wanted to bring men home |
The Vietnam War Protests: Impact? | hindered US progress within Vietnam, eventually lead to US pulling out of war entirely |
The Vietnam War Outcome | Northern Vietnam wins, Vietnam is now communist |