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Vietnam War Test

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In what parts of Virginia was military spending most important during the Cold War?
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Who won the 1968 presidential election?
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How many American troops did the United States have stationed in Vietnam in 1968?
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What type of government did North Vietnam have?
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What president began the American military buildup in South Vietnam?
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Who was President Nixon's most important Secretary of State?
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What president escalated (increased) American military involvement in the Vietnam War?
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What European country controlled Indochina as a colony?
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Did the Cold War help Virginia's economy?
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What was the name of the South Vietnamese communists who wanted to overthrow the South Vietnamese government?
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What did SALT stand for?
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What president gave economic and military aid to the French and later to South Vietnam?
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Name the first treaty to establish limits on the number of nuclear weapons held by the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Why didn't the U.S. like Ho Chi Minh?
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Who was president when the Vietnam War ended?
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Who was the Soviet Union's leader in 1972?
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What was Nixon's pledge in the 1968 presidential campaign?
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With what country did President Nixon begin to establish formal diplomatic relations in 1972?
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What did the Twenty-Sixth Amendment do?
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What happened to President Kennedy?
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SALT Treaty
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Eisenhower
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Communist China
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More than 500,000
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Communist
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Yes
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Leonid Brezhnev
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1) Hampton Roads 2) Northern Virginia
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Henry Kissinger
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France
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John F. Kennedy
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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
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Gerald Ford
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Ho Chi Minh was a communist.
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"Peace with Honor"
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Richard Nixon
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Assassinated
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
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Vietcong
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Did Vietnamization succeed or fail?
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Who was the leader of communist China in 1972?
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What anti-communist policy did the United States follow in Vietnam?
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What was the relationship between the Soviet Union and communist China in the early 1970s?
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What Cold War policy got the U.S. involved in Vietnam?
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What type of government did South Vietnam have?
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What political scandal forced President Nixon to resign?
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Who was the leader of the Vietnamese independence movement from France?
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Name the Soviet-American discussions to establish limits on the number of nuclear weapons.
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Nixon's plan to turn over the war to the South Vietnamese army and withdraw American troops

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