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Vietnam War the SALT Treaty
2
What effect did the Cold War have on the Virginia
economy?

• Benefitted Virginias economy more than any other
  states

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In what two parts of Virginia was military
spending most important during the Cold War?

• Hampton Roads
• Northern Virginia

4
What Cold War policy resulted in American
involvement in Vietnam?

• Containment

5
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 two communist countries supplied the North
Vietnamese Army?

• The Soviet Union
• Communist China

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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

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What did the Twenty-Sixth Amendment do?

• Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18

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What did the Vietnam War show about the power of
American public opinion?

• Public opinion could reverse or change American
  foreign policy

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How did the Vietnam War affect American society?

• Tested the democratic system
• Left scars on American society
• Raised skepticism of future military and
  peacekeeping interventions

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Who was President Nixons most important
Secretary of State?

• Henry Kissinger

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What was the relationship between the Soviet
Union and communist China in the early 1970s?

• The Soviet Union and China were rivals for power.

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With what country did President Nixon begin to
establish formal diplomatic relations in 1972?

• Communist China

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Who was the leader of communist China in 1972?

• Mao Zedong

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What was the capital of communist China?

• Beijing

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Who was the Soviet Unions leader in 1972?

• Leonid Brezhnev

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What was the capital of the Soviet Union?

• Moscow

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What two countries were involved in the SALT
talks?

• The United States and the Soviet Union

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What does SALT stand for?

• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

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Name the Soviet-American discussions to establish
limits on the number of nuclear weapons.

• The SALT talks

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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.

• The SALT Treaty