Cold War Part II

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Cold War Part II

• Vietnam War

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What effect did the Cold War have on the Virginia
economy?

• Greatly benefitted Virginias economy, especially
  in Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia

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• What Cold War policy resulted in American
  involvement in Vietnam?
• Containment

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• What American president said, Ask not what Your
  country can do for You, but what You can do for
  Your country?
• John F. Kennedy

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• What president said Americans should pay any
  price, bear any burden, meet any hardshipto
  assure the survival and success of liberty?
• John F. Kennedy

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• What European colonial power controlled Indochina
  after World War II? (Indochina included
  Vietnam.)
• France

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• Who was the leader of the Vietnamese independence
  movement?
• Ho Chi Minh

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• Why did the United States support Frances
  efforts after World War II to keep Indochina as a
  colony?
• Ho Chi Minh was a communist.

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• What type of government did North Vietnam have?
• communist

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• What type of government did South Vietnam have?
• Non-communist or anti-communist

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• What was the name of the South Vietnamese
  communists who tried to overthrow the South
  Vietnamese government? They were guerilla
  fighters.
• Vietcong

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• What was the official name of the Vietcong?
• The National Liberation Front

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• What president gave economic and military aid,
  money and weapons, first to the French and then
  to the government of South Vietnam?
• Dwight D. Eisenhower

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• What president began the American military
  buildup in South Vietnam?
• John F. Kennedy

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• What president was assassinated in 1963?
• John F. Kennedy

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• What president escalated (increased) American
  military involvement in the Vietnam War?
• Lyndon B. Johnson

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• What anti-communist policy did the United States
  follow in Vietnam?
• containment

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• How many American troops did the United States
  have stationed in Vietnam in 1968?
• More than 500,000

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• What was the center of anti-war feeling in the
  United States?
• College campuses

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• Who won the 1968 presidential election?
• Richard M. Nixon

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• What was Nixons pledge in the 1968 presidential
  campaign regarding the Vietnam War?
• Peace with Honor.

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• What did Nixon call his policy to turn over the
  war to the South Vietnamese army and
  simultaneously withdraw American troops?
• Vietnamization

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• Did Vietnamization succeed or fail?
• Failed

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• What country supplied the North Vietnamese Army?
• The Soviet Union

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• What political scandal forced President Nixon to
  resign from office?
• Watergate

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• Who became president when Nixon resigned as
  President?
• Gerald Ford

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• What happened in Vietnam? In other words, how
  did the Vietnam War end?
• Communist North Vietnam took over South Vietnam
  and reunited the country under communist rule.

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• Who was president when the Vietnam War ended?
• Gerald Ford

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• What type of government did Vietnam have when it
  was reunified in 1975?
• Communist