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7. What "vas President Tnlnlan's plan for reconstruc- 24. What official and common nmnes were given to the
tion of ''''Tar-torn Europe? Communist South Vietnamese insurgents?
8. A. What two Soviet actions in the late 1940s caused 25. What was the "Brown Water Navy" and where did it
the Western democracies to create a formal alliance operate?
to counter the spread of Soviet communism? 26. W1mt restrictions were placed on the conduct of the
B. What was this alliance calIed? war by U.S. civilian leadership?
C. What Soviet-sponsored military alliance ,vas 27. What result did the Tet Offensive of 1968 have in the
formed in response? United States?
9. What happened in China in 1949? 28. What was the final outcome of the Vietnam War?
10. A. Where did the Potsdam Conference draw the 29. What did the resolution of the Mayaguez incident
boundary line between North and South Korea? show the world in 1975?
B. Which major nations aligned themselves with 30. W11at effects did the Falklands War of 1982 have on
North and South Korea? the u.s. Navy?
11. What were the objectives of the North Korean inva- 31. What happened on the island of Grenada in 1983?
sion of South Korea? 32. Why did the United States take military action in
12. Who was the supreme commander of UN forces in Panama in 1989?
Korea? 33. Why did the United States conduct an attack against
13. What made the landing at Inchon so risky? Colonel Qaddafi's Libya in 1986?
14. What happened on 25 November 1950 that changed 34. What was the role of the U.S. Navy during the Per-
the whole complexion of the Korean War? sian Gulf warfare in the 1980s?
15. Why was General MacArthur relieved by President 35. What profound change took place in the early 1990s
Trwnan? that brought an end to the cold war?
16. Where were the Korean truce talks held?
17. What was the historical significance of the Pueblo
Vocabulary
crisis in 1968?
18. What new kinds of submarines became part of the supelpov·.rer Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.S. fleet in the 1950s? demobilization "mothballs"
19. A. What was the American response to the discov- cold war Marshall Plan
ery of Soviet intermediate-range missiles in Cuba iron curtain coup d'etat
in 1962? the draft NATO
B. What was the result? Warsaw Pact Communist bloc
20. What did the USSR do as a result of the Cuban con- geographic dagger hot pursuit
frontation? armistice range of tide
21. Where was the dividing line between North and demilitarized zone (DMZ) quarantine (blockade)
South Vietnam after 1954? Brown Water Navy Yankee Station
22. What triggered civil war in South Vietnam in 1956? "third COlll1l1y" shipping helicopter gunship
23. What controversial event brought the United States ski-jump carrier Viehlamization
into the war on a major scale?