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What happened to the U.S. armed forces after World War II ended?
There were drastic reductions in all of the Armed Forces.
They remained at roughly the same numbers, but equipment wasn't replaced.
They had a slight reduction in numbers and older equipment was eliminated.
There was a significant increase in the Armed Forces to cope with occupation duty in Germany and Japan.
They remained roughly the same in numbers and more modern equipment was added.
What were the only two possible American response options to Soviet takeovers of Eastern European nations following World War II?
Diplomatic protest or the use of the Atomic Bomb.
Atomic warfare or conventional warfare.
Diplomatic protest or conventional warfare.
Take over countries ourselves or stop the Soviet takeovers.
Diplomatic protest or a veto in the United Nations.
After World War II, which Service attempted to position itself as the "Nation's new first line of defense"?
The Air Force
The Navy
The Army
The Marine Corps
The Coast Guard
What Act, passed in July 1947, established the Defense Department and the U.S. Air Force?
The National Security Act
The Defense Unification Act
The Defense Department Act
The Defense Security Act
The Homeland Defense Act
The cornerstone of U.S. cold war foreign policy for 40 years after World War II was known as the policy of __________________.
containment.
harassment.
embarrassment.
confrontation.
diplomacy.
What events caused the beginning of the U.S. Sixth Fleet deployments to the Mediterranean?
Soviet attempts to undermine the governments of Greece and Turkey.
Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland.
Soviet expansion moves in Northern Iran.
Soviet aid and expansion into North Korea.
Soviet aid to the communist forces in China.
What was the name of President Truman's plan for reconstruction of war-torn Europe?
The Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine
The International Relief Fund
The United Nations Fund
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
What two Soviet actions in the late 1940s caused the Western democracies to create a formal alliance to counter the spread of Soviet communism?
The Berlin Blockade and the Soviet-sponsored communist takeover in Czechoslovakia.
The Berlin blockade and the annexation of Eastern Poland by the Soviet Union.
The Soviet-sponsored revolutions in Greece and Turkey.
The Soviet incursions into Greece and Northern Iran.
The Soviet support of the communist Chinese and the North Koreans.
What military alliance was formed as a counter to NATO?
The Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union
The CCCP
The USSR
The Russian Federation
Where is NATO headquarters located today?
Belgium
New York
London
Paris
Switzerland
What happened in China in 1949?
The Communist forces defeated the Nationalist forces.
The Nationalist forces defeated the Communist forces.
The Soviet Union invaded and drove out the Nationalist forces.
The North Koreans invaded and drove out the Nationalist forces.
Democratic elections brought the Communist Party to power.
What international conference drew the boundary between North and South Korea at the thirty-eighth parallel?
The Potsdam Conference
The Truman Conference
The Yalta Conference
The Tokyo Conference
The United Nations Conference of 1946
Which major nations aligned themselves with North and South Korea following World War II?
The South had the U.S. and the North the Soviet Union.
The South had the Soviet Union and the North the U.S.
The South had the U.S. and the North had Nationalist China.
The South had the Chinese and the North had the Soviet Union.
The South had the Soviet Union and the North had the Chinese.
What major world event occurred on 25 June 1950?
North Korean forces invaded South Korea.
Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba.
The Soviet Union annexed Eastern Poland
The Chinese Communist forces defeated the Nationalist Chinese forces.
The Truman Doctrine was issued.
How was the United States able to get past the Soviet Union's veto in the United Nations Security Council and get the UN to agree to military action against North Korea?
The Soviets were boycotting the UN Security Council at the time.
The U.S. threatened to use an atomic bomb against the Soviet Union unless they agreed to the action.
The U.S. challenged the Soviet Union off of the Security Council for that session.
They paid the Soviet Union a large sum of money not to use their veto.
The U.S. had a two-thirds majority and was able to override the Soviet Union's veto.
What was the code name for the amphibious landings at Inchon?
Operation Chromite
Operation Torch
Operation Doomsday
Operation Overlord
Operation Pusan
What made the landings at Inchon so risky?
The high tides at Inchon.
It was heavily defended.
The lack of available amphibious landing equipment.
The lack of naval gunfire or air strikes to achieve surprise.
It was an obvious place for a landing and we would not have the element of surprise.
What happened on 25 November 1950 that changed the whole complexion of the Korean War?
Chinese Communist Armies came across the border in support of the North Koreans.
Soviet Army forces came across the border in support of the North Koreans.
North Korean forces made an amphibious landing inside the Pusan perimeter.
The North Korean Army surrendered.
President Truman fired General MacArthur.
Why was General MacArthur relieved by President Truman?
For insubordinate remarks made by MacArthur in a letter to a Congressman.
Because he could not defeat the North Koreans.
Because his actions had brought the Chinese into the war.
Because he would not fight the war in the way Truman wanted.
For failing to work well with the other Services.
What event resulted in the partition of Indochina into North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia?
The defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
The treaty ending the Korean War.
The Potsdam conference.
The Pueblo Incident.
U.N. Council Resolution 100.
What prevented the Chinese Communists from invading Taiwan in 1954?
A defense treaty signed between the United States and Taiwan.
They were too badly beaten from their fighting in Korea.
The death of their leader, Mao Tse Tung.
Bad weather and old transports prevented Chinese troops from making the landings.
They did not have an adequate amount of amphibious transport.
What was the historical significance of the capture of the USS Pueblo in 1968?
It was the first capture of an American ship on the high seas in over 150 years.
It was the last time an American warship would be attacked in the 20th century.
It was the first time an American warship had been attacked in the 20th century.
It was the first time a U.S. Captain had given up his ship without a fight.
It was the event that started the Korean War.
Which U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Class was designed to be the first to be able to launch aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons?
The Forestall Class
The Nimitz Class
The Enterprise Class
The Lexington Class
The Hornet Class
What was the major contribution made by helicopters to amphibious warfare tactics in the 1960's and 1970's?
Vertical Envelopment.
Rapid resupply of ammunition.
Rapid movement of wounded out of the battle area.
Keeping troops out of the line of enemy fire.
Allowing Generals to see large portions of the landing area from the sky.
What was the American response to the discovery of Soviet intermediate-range missiles in Cuba in 1962?
A quarantine of all offensive equipment being shipped to Cuba.
An amphibious operation against the missile storage facilities and missile sites.
A formal protest in the United Nations.
A blockade of Soviet ports around the world.
The mining of several major Cuban ports.
What controversial event brought the United States into the Vietnam war on a major scale?
The Tonkin Gulf incident.
The French defeat at Dien Bien Phu.
The assassination of Ho Chi Minh.
The military coup in South Vietnam in 1963.
The Tet Offensive.
During the Vietnam war, up to how many U.S. Aircraft Carriers were on station off Vietnam at one time?
5
8
3
2
10
What naval action in 1973 brought the North Vietnamese back to the peace table to sign an agreement?
The mining of Haiphong Harbor.
The bombing of Hanoi.
The naval blockade of North Vietnam.
The sinking of the North Vietnamese Navy.
The naval bombardment of Haiphong Harbor.
What American merchant ship was seized in international waters off Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge in 1975?
The SS Mayaguez
The USS Maddox
The SS Minnow
The USS Pueblo
The SS Albany
Why did the United States take military action in Panama in 1989?
To end the state-sponsored drug smuggling of its dictator, General Manuel Noriega.
Because they had closed the Panama Canal.
Because the government of Panama had thrown out U.S. military personnel stationed there.
Because of plans the U.S. had captured that showed that Panama planned to invade the U.S.
Because of an impending communist takeover.
Why did the United States conduct an attack against Colonel Qaddafi's Libya in 1986?
In retaliation for continuing threats and several Libyan-sponsored terrorist acts against U.S. citizens in Europe.
Because the Libyans had shot down a U.S. fighter.
Because the Libyans had captured two U.S. merchant ships.
Because the Libyans had tried to attack U.S. Navy ships operating in the Gulf of Sidra.
Libyan terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center.
What was the main reason that the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990's?
The failure of its economy.
The failure of its military.
The people had had enough with communism.
Through the direct military action of the United States.
There were no more communist leaders to keep it going.
Who became the first U.S. Secretary of Defense?
James Forrestal
Chester Nimitz
George Keenan
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
What was the name given the U.S. policy of containment of Soviet expansion following World War II?
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
The Forrestal Initiative
The Nimitz Charter
The United Nations
What allowed the orderly evacuation of UN forces from the port of Hungnam following the Chinese attack into North Korea?
Naval gunfire and carrier air strikes.
South Korean counterattacks.
A retreat by the Chinese forces.
The greater mobility of the UN forces.
Large minefields placed in front of the Chinese forces.
What U.S. Naval Officer was considered to be the "Father of the Nuclear Navy"?
Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover
Admiral King
Admiral Turner Joy
Admiral Nimitz
Vice Admiral Halsey
What was the name of the U.S. destroyer that was attacked by three North Vietnamese patrol boats on 2 August, 1964 in the Tonkin Gulf?
The USS Maddox
The USS Turner Joy
The USS Ticonderoga
The USS South Vietnam
The USS Charleston
What was the name given to the highly-trained South Vietnamese naval special forces?
Sea Commandos
SEALs
Force Recon
Viet Cong
SAS
What was the name of the primary port in North Vietnam through which the Chinese and Soviets kept the North Vietnamese supplied with weapons and ammunition?
Haiphong
Hanoi
Saigon
Danang
Hue
What was the name of the CNO who made sweeping changes to the Navy rules on hairstyles, civilian clothes, motorcycles and other aspects of Navy life?
Admiral Zumwalt
Admiral King
Admiral Nimitz
Admiral Rickover
Admiral Anderson
What was the code name for the U.S. invasion into Panama in 1989?
Operation Just Cause
Operation Earnest Will
Operation Downfall
Operation Desert Storm
The Iran-Contra affair
What was the name of the U.S. cruiser that mistakenly shot down a civilian Iranian airliner that approached the ship while it was battling Iranian gunboats?
The USS Vincennes
The USS Samuel B. Roberts
The USS Stark
The USS Fox
The USS Ticonderoga
What term was originated in 1946 by Winston Churchill to describe the conflict of interests between the West and the Soviet Union?
The Iron Curtain
The Berlin Wall
The Cold War
The Sino-Soviet Conflict
Class Warfare
What new kinds of submarines became part of the U.S. fleet in the 1950s?
Nuclear ballistic missile submarines
Hunter-killer attack submarines
Trident submarines
Poseidon submarines
Los Angeles class attack submarines
What was the popular name for the U.S. Navy's Mobile Riverine Force in Vietnam?
The Brown Water Navy
The River Rats
The Delta Force
The Patrol Fleet
The Riverine Fleet
Which countries fought in the Falklands War of 1982?
Britain and Argentina
Argentina and the United States
Britain and Brazil
Britain and Chile
The United States and Chile
Which country did the United States invade in 1983?
Granada
Panama
Cuba
The Falklands
Syria
What was the name of the Vietnamese leader who defeated the French in 1954 at the battle of Dien Bien Phu?
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Din Diem
Mao Tse-Tung
Chiang Kai-Shek
Syngman Rhee
What was the name of the Soviet Naval Officer who oversaw the massive build-up of the Soviet Navy during the 1960's and 1970's?
Sergei Gorshkov
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Hyman Rickover
Mikhail Gorbachev
What was the name of the Egyptian President at the time of the U.S. Marine Corps landings in Lebanon in 1958?