An operational term adopted by the American command in Vietnam to describe operations design to find, fix in place, and destroy enemy forces and their base areas and supply caches (Such as Operation Cedar Falls, Operation Junction City, ect); this term was blank and blank

An outgrowth of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s attempts to quantify the war in Vietnam; this term involved the tabulation of enemy soldiers killed on the battlefield-a measure to determine "success." This was the infamous blank blank ; it led to a practice to inflated reports, widening a credibility gap between the US military and the American public

Johnson's air campaign, based on gradual escalation (and lasting from 1965-68) was called operation blank blank (opposite of US air campaign in Gulf War - "Instant Thunder")

The leading commander for the US in Vietnam, General William blank was unpopular among many American soldiers and was eventually replaced by General Creighton Abram, who started the search and destroy mission

Blank Blank was a derogatory term for Vietnamese communists in the south. At the end of the French War, about 90,000 Viet Minh (communist) troops went to the North; about 5-10,000 stayed in the south. In 1959, they were activated by the North Vietnamese Politburo to begin a guerrilla war in the south to overthrow Diem's government. After 1964, they were reinforced by North Vietnamese regular Army units (NVA). These "red Vietnamese" were effectively destroyed by the Tet Offensive in early 1968; thereafter, the fight was controlled by the NVA.

True or False

National Liberation Front (NLF) was a classic communist-front organization. Formed in Hanoi in December 1960, the NLF was designed to disguise its communist control and thus draw support from noncommunist South Vietnamese disaffect with Diem's government. Many noncommunist South Vietnamese disaffect with Diem's government. Many noncommunist members of the NLF thought they were working for southern independence, and the antiwar movement in the US championed the NLF as the true representative of the South Vietnamese people. The NLF stressed land reform expulsion of foreign, unfairness of south Vietnam’s tax system ,etc. After the war in 1975, the North Vietnamese freely admitted that the NLF was their own creation, totally controlled and directed from Hanoi. Many southern NLF leader were purged, imprisoned, or fled into exile.

Taskforce Normandy

a. Initial reaction of the Bush Administration to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait: to send 250,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to protect this Oil-producing country from Iraqi aggression.

b. Term to designate the initial air operation in which Iraq’s strategic centers were to be destroyed by swift and massive air attacks

c. Term to designate the initial operation of the air war, led by Apache helicopters, to strike Iraqi’s communication centers in the western desert of Iraq.

d. Marine commander who would led the attack into Kuwait; his forces, supposed to be a “holding force” became a piston, trying the Iraqis out of Kuwait City

e. Flight surgeon who was captured and tortured by the Iraqis

f. flight surgeon who was captured by the Iraqis and was a female POW

g. A Vietnam veteran (Air Force) who headed the air war

i. A Vietnam veteran (Army) whose concern for public opinion led him to advise any early end to the war

j. Term used (especially by the media) to describe the road leading out of Kuwait city, which was filled with the wreckage of dead Iraqis who were fleeing Kuwait, after the ground war started

k. This city in Saudi Arabia was attacked by the Iraqis in late January 1991, before the ground war started. The Iraqis were easily defeated by the coalition forces. This quick defeat, some historians argue, should have suggested to General Schwarzkopf that he was overestimating the fighting capacity of Iraq.

l. A Vietnam veteran who desperately wanted to cut off and “kill” the fleeing Republic Guard, Saddam Hussein’s elite troops.

m. Term for the Vietnam air campaign

n. Term for the Gulf war air campaign

General Walt Boomer

a. Initial reaction of the Bush Administration to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait: to send 250,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to protect this Oil-producing country from Iraqi aggression.

b. Term to designate the initial air operation in which Iraq’s strategic centers were to be destroyed by swift and massive air attacks

c. Term to designate the initial operation of the air war, led by Apache helicopters, to strike Iraqi’s communication centers in the western desert of Iraq.

d. Marine commander who would led the attack into Kuwait; his forces, supposed to be a “holding force” became a piston, trying the Iraqis out of Kuwait City

e. Flight surgeon who was captured and tortured by the Iraqis

f. flight surgeon who was captured by the Iraqis and was a female POW

g. A Vietnam veteran (Air Force) who headed the air war

i. A Vietnam veteran (Army) whose concern for public opinion led him to advise any early end to the war

j. Term used (especially by the media) to describe the road leading out of Kuwait city, which was filled with the wreckage of dead Iraqis who were fleeing Kuwait, after the ground war started

k. This city in Saudi Arabia was attacked by the Iraqis in late January 1991, before the ground war started. The Iraqis were easily defeated by the coalition forces. This quick defeat, some historians argue, should have suggested to General Schwarzkopf that he was overestimating the fighting capacity of Iraq.

l. A Vietnam veteran who desperately wanted to cut off and “kill” the fleeing Republic Guard, Saddam Hussein’s elite troops.

m. Term for the Vietnam air campaign

n. Term for the Gulf war air campaign

General Norm Schwarzkopf

a. Initial reaction of the Bush Administration to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait: to send 250,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to protect this Oil-producing country from Iraqi aggression.

b. Term to designate the initial air operation in which Iraq’s strategic centers were to be destroyed by swift and massive air attacks

c. Term to designate the initial operation of the air war, led by Apache helicopters, to strike Iraqi’s communication centers in the western desert of Iraq.

d. Marine commander who would led the attack into Kuwait; his forces, supposed to be a “holding force” became a piston, trying the Iraqis out of Kuwait City

e. Flight surgeon who was captured and tortured by the Iraqis

f. flight surgeon who was captured by the Iraqis and was a female POW

g. A Vietnam veteran (Air Force) who headed the air war

i. A Vietnam veteran (Army) whose concern for public opinion led him to advise any early end to the war

j. Term used (especially by the media) to describe the road leading out of Kuwait city, which was filled with the wreckage of dead Iraqis who were fleeing Kuwait, after the ground war started

k. This city in Saudi Arabia was attacked by the Iraqis in late January 1991, before the ground war started. The Iraqis were easily defeated by the coalition forces. This quick defeat, some historians argue, should have suggested to General Schwarzkopf that he was overestimating the fighting capacity of Iraq.

l. A Vietnam veteran who desperately wanted to cut off and “kill” the fleeing Republic Guard, Saddam Hussein’s elite troops.

m. Term for the Vietnam air campaign

n. Term for the Gulf war air campaign

Major Rhonda Cornum

a. Initial reaction of the Bush Administration to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait: to send 250,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to protect this Oil-producing country from Iraqi aggression.

b. Term to designate the initial air operation in which Iraq’s strategic centers were to be destroyed by swift and massive air attacks

c. Term to designate the initial operation of the air war, led by Apache helicopters, to strike Iraqi’s communication centers in the western desert of Iraq.

d. Marine commander who would led the attack into Kuwait; his forces, supposed to be a “holding force” became a piston, trying the Iraqis out of Kuwait City

e. Flight surgeon who was captured and tortured by the Iraqis

f. flight surgeon who was captured by the Iraqis and was a female POW

g. A Vietnam veteran (Air Force) who headed the air war

i. A Vietnam veteran (Army) whose concern for public opinion led him to advise any early end to the war

j. Term used (especially by the media) to describe the road leading out of Kuwait city, which was filled with the wreckage of dead Iraqis who were fleeing Kuwait, after the ground war started

k. This city in Saudi Arabia was attacked by the Iraqis in late January 1991, before the ground war started. The Iraqis were easily defeated by the coalition forces. This quick defeat, some historians argue, should have suggested to General Schwarzkopf that he was overestimating the fighting capacity of Iraq.

l. A Vietnam veteran who desperately wanted to cut off and “kill” the fleeing Republic Guard, Saddam Hussein’s elite troops.

m. Term for the Vietnam air campaign

n. Term for the Gulf war air campaign

Khafji

a. Initial reaction of the Bush Administration to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait: to send 250,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to protect this Oil-producing country from Iraqi aggression.

b. Term to designate the initial air operation in which Iraq’s strategic centers were to be destroyed by swift and massive air attacks

c. Term to designate the initial operation of the air war, led by Apache helicopters, to strike Iraqi’s communication centers in the western desert of Iraq.

d. Marine commander who would led the attack into Kuwait; his forces, supposed to be a “holding force” became a piston, trying the Iraqis out of Kuwait City

e. Flight surgeon who was captured and tortured by the Iraqis

f. flight surgeon who was captured by the Iraqis and was a female POW

g. A Vietnam veteran (Air Force) who headed the air war

i. A Vietnam veteran (Army) whose concern for public opinion led him to advise any early end to the war

j. Term used (especially by the media) to describe the road leading out of Kuwait city, which was filled with the wreckage of dead Iraqis who were fleeing Kuwait, after the ground war started

k. This city in Saudi Arabia was attacked by the Iraqis in late January 1991, before the ground war started. The Iraqis were easily defeated by the coalition forces. This quick defeat, some historians argue, should have suggested to General Schwarzkopf that he was overestimating the fighting capacity of Iraq.

l. A Vietnam veteran who desperately wanted to cut off and “kill” the fleeing Republic Guard, Saddam Hussein’s elite troops.

m. Term for the Vietnam air campaign

n. Term for the Gulf war air campaign

'Highway of Death'

a. Initial reaction of the Bush Administration to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait: to send 250,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to protect this Oil-producing country from Iraqi aggression.

b. Term to designate the initial air operation in which Iraq’s strategic centers were to be destroyed by swift and massive air attacks

c. Term to designate the initial operation of the air war, led by Apache helicopters, to strike Iraqi’s communication centers in the western desert of Iraq.

d. Marine commander who would led the attack into Kuwait; his forces, supposed to be a “holding force” became a piston, trying the Iraqis out of Kuwait City

e. Flight surgeon who was captured and tortured by the Iraqis

f. flight surgeon who was captured by the Iraqis and was a female POW

g. A Vietnam veteran (Air Force) who headed the air war

i. A Vietnam veteran (Army) whose concern for public opinion led him to advise any early end to the war

j. Term used (especially by the media) to describe the road leading out of Kuwait city, which was filled with the wreckage of dead Iraqis who were fleeing Kuwait, after the ground war started

k. This city in Saudi Arabia was attacked by the Iraqis in late January 1991, before the ground war started. The Iraqis were easily defeated by the coalition forces. This quick defeat, some historians argue, should have suggested to General Schwarzkopf that he was overestimating the fighting capacity of Iraq.

l. A Vietnam veteran who desperately wanted to cut off and “kill” the fleeing Republic Guard, Saddam Hussein’s elite troops.

m. Term for the Vietnam air campaign

n. Term for the Gulf war air campaign

General Colin Powell

a. Initial reaction of the Bush Administration to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait: to send 250,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to protect this Oil-producing country from Iraqi aggression.

b. Term to designate the initial air operation in which Iraq’s strategic centers were to be destroyed by swift and massive air attacks

c. Term to designate the initial operation of the air war, led by Apache helicopters, to strike Iraqi’s communication centers in the western desert of Iraq.

d. Marine commander who would led the attack into Kuwait; his forces, supposed to be a “holding force” became a piston, trying the Iraqis out of Kuwait City

e. Flight surgeon who was captured and tortured by the Iraqis

f. flight surgeon who was captured by the Iraqis and was a female POW

g. A Vietnam veteran (Air Force) who headed the air war

i. A Vietnam veteran (Army) whose concern for public opinion led him to advise any early end to the war

j. Term used (especially by the media) to describe the road leading out of Kuwait city, which was filled with the wreckage of dead Iraqis who were fleeing Kuwait, after the ground war started

k. This city in Saudi Arabia was attacked by the Iraqis in late January 1991, before the ground war started. The Iraqis were easily defeated by the coalition forces. This quick defeat, some historians argue, should have suggested to General Schwarzkopf that he was overestimating the fighting capacity of Iraq.

l. A Vietnam veteran who desperately wanted to cut off and “kill” the fleeing Republic Guard, Saddam Hussein’s elite troops.

m. Term for the Vietnam air campaign

n. Term for the Gulf war air campaign

General Chuck Horner

a. Initial reaction of the Bush Administration to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait: to send 250,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to protect this Oil-producing country from Iraqi aggression.

b. Term to designate the initial air operation in which Iraq’s strategic centers were to be destroyed by swift and massive air attacks

c. Term to designate the initial operation of the air war, led by Apache helicopters, to strike Iraqi’s communication centers in the western desert of Iraq.

d. Marine commander who would led the attack into Kuwait; his forces, supposed to be a “holding force” became a piston, trying the Iraqis out of Kuwait City

e. Flight surgeon who was captured and tortured by the Iraqis

f. flight surgeon who was captured by the Iraqis and was a female POW

g. A Vietnam veteran (Air Force) who headed the air war

i. A Vietnam veteran (Army) whose concern for public opinion led him to advise any early end to the war

j. Term used (especially by the media) to describe the road leading out of Kuwait city, which was filled with the wreckage of dead Iraqis who were fleeing Kuwait, after the ground war started

k. This city in Saudi Arabia was attacked by the Iraqis in late January 1991, before the ground war started. The Iraqis were easily defeated by the coalition forces. This quick defeat, some historians argue, should have suggested to General Schwarzkopf that he was overestimating the fighting capacity of Iraq.

l. A Vietnam veteran who desperately wanted to cut off and “kill” the fleeing Republic Guard, Saddam Hussein’s elite troops.

m. Term for the Vietnam air campaign

n. Term for the Gulf war air campaign

Operation Desert Shield

a. Initial reaction of the Bush Administration to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait: to send 250,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to protect this Oil-producing country from Iraqi aggression.

b. Term to designate the initial air operation in which Iraq’s strategic centers were to be destroyed by swift and massive air attacks

c. Term to designate the initial operation of the air war, led by Apache helicopters, to strike Iraqi’s communication centers in the western desert of Iraq.

d. Marine commander who would led the attack into Kuwait; his forces, supposed to be a “holding force” became a piston, trying the Iraqis out of Kuwait City

e. Flight surgeon who was captured and tortured by the Iraqis

f. flight surgeon who was captured by the Iraqis and was a female POW

g. A Vietnam veteran (Air Force) who headed the air war

i. A Vietnam veteran (Army) whose concern for public opinion led him to advise any early end to the war

j. Term used (especially by the media) to describe the road leading out of Kuwait city, which was filled with the wreckage of dead Iraqis who were fleeing Kuwait, after the ground war started

k. This city in Saudi Arabia was attacked by the Iraqis in late January 1991, before the ground war started. The Iraqis were easily defeated by the coalition forces. This quick defeat, some historians argue, should have suggested to General Schwarzkopf that he was overestimating the fighting capacity of Iraq.

l. A Vietnam veteran who desperately wanted to cut off and “kill” the fleeing Republic Guard, Saddam Hussein’s elite troops.

m. Term for the Vietnam air campaign

n. Term for the Gulf war air campaign

Operation Instant Thunder

a. Initial reaction of the Bush Administration to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait: to send 250,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to protect this Oil-producing country from Iraqi aggression.

b. Term to designate the initial air operation in which Iraq’s strategic centers were to be destroyed by swift and massive air attacks

c. Term to designate the initial operation of the air war, led by Apache helicopters, to strike Iraqi’s communication centers in the western desert of Iraq.

d. Marine commander who would led the attack into Kuwait; his forces, supposed to be a “holding force” became a piston, trying the Iraqis out of Kuwait City

e. Flight surgeon who was captured and tortured by the Iraqis

f. flight surgeon who was captured by the Iraqis and was a female POW

g. A Vietnam veteran (Air Force) who headed the air war

i. A Vietnam veteran (Army) whose concern for public opinion led him to advise any early end to the war

j. Term used (especially by the media) to describe the road leading out of Kuwait city, which was filled with the wreckage of dead Iraqis who were fleeing Kuwait, after the ground war started

k. This city in Saudi Arabia was attacked by the Iraqis in late January 1991, before the ground war started. The Iraqis were easily defeated by the coalition forces. This quick defeat, some historians argue, should have suggested to General Schwarzkopf that he was overestimating the fighting capacity of Iraq.

l. A Vietnam veteran who desperately wanted to cut off and “kill” the fleeing Republic Guard, Saddam Hussein’s elite troops.

m. Term for the Vietnam air campaign

n. Term for the Gulf war air campaign

Many of Reagan's foreign policy goals during his first term in office centered on "containing" the influence of what foreign power?

a) China

b) The Soviet Union

c) Vietnam

d) Nicaragua

Which world leader came to power in 1985 with the intention of easing tensions caused by the cold war?

a) Mikhail Gorbechev

b) Ronald Reagan

c) Deng xiaoping

d) margaret thatcher

What was the official name for Reagan’s $1 trillion "star wars" program?

a) National missile defense (NMD)

b) Theater missile defense (TMD)

c) Strategic defense initiative (SDI)

d) Satellite defense system (SDS)

Reagan's term, "window of vulnerability." referred to what?

a) The moment in time when the soviet union could launch a nuclear preemptive first strike against the us

b) the moment in time when the US could launch a nuclear preemptive first strike against the Soviet Union

c) The moment in time when there would be more communist countries in Latin America than democratic ones

d) The moment in time when the growing Japanese economy would crush the American economy

Regan authorized a bombing raid on which country after discovering that it funded anti-American terrorist movements?

a) Nicaragua

b) Iran

c) Libya

d)Grenada

The Reagan administration was accused of trading arms for hostages in what scandal?

a) Iran-contra scandal

b) Libya-Grenada scandal

c) Lebanon-PLO scandal

d) Israel-Syria scandal

The US army invaded which country in 1983 to fight communist rebels?

a) Lebanon

b) Nicaragua

c) Iran

d) Grenada

Over 200 US Marines were killed in what contry in 1983 by a terrorist suicide bomber?

a) Lebanon

b) Nicaragua

c) Iran

d)Grenada

What resolution, passed by congress in 1981, prohibited Regan and the US military from interfering in Nicaragua?

a) The Platt amendment

b) The Brady bill

c) The Boland amendment

d) house-senate joint resolution 235

Which US military officer was indicted and convicted for his role in the arms - for -hostage scandal during the last few years of Regan’s second term?

a) LI. colonel north

b) Admiral Perry

c) General Westmoreland

d) General Haig

Under Reagan’s direction, the CIA trained 10,000 exiles from what country to overthrow their communist oppressors?

a) Nicaragua

b) El Salvador

c) Grenada

d) Argentina

Where is a woman's life expectancy the highest in the world?

a) Japan

b) Kenya

c) United States

What percentage of people living in the U.S. were born in other nations?

a) 2.5 percent

b) 11 percent

c) 14 percent

To project future populations, the United Nations Population Division (UNPD) makes assumptions about fertility rates. If today's rates do not change, what will the population of developing nations be in 2050

a) 7.7 billion

b) 9.3 billion

c) 11.6 billion

For a baby born in India in 1881, life expectancy was a mere 25 years. What is it today?

a) 48

b) 60

c) 63

How many young people between the ages of 0 and 14 are there in the developing world?

a) 200 million

b) 550 million

c) 1.6 billion

What percent of people in the developing world live in urban settings

a) 14%

b) 40%

c) 76%

North Americans consume how much more energy per person than Africans?

a) 2 times as much

b) 8 times as much

c) 15 times as much

While wealth and related high levels of consumption can lead to environmental damage, so too can poverty. Poor rural families are more likely, for example, to engage in slash-and-burn agriculture and pollute local water resources. What percent of the world's people lives on less than US $1 a day?

a) 23 percent

b) 70 percent

c) 82 percent

The following about the Khmer Rouge leader, who had been in China during the Cultural Revolution, are true accepted:

a) His "norm de guerre" was Pol Pot

b) His regime, which ousted the American-backed Lon Nol regime, would kill approximately 1.7 million out of a national population of 7 million

c) His regime was overthrown when Vietnamese troops invaded in 1979; he was then supported by the Chinese and American governments in the 1980s

d) his model for action was Stalin's Soviet Union

The following are true about Kim Jong IL except:

a) He succeeded his father in 1994 - the first "dynastic" ruler in a communist nation.

b) He (like his father, Kim IL sung) rulers in 20th century, such as Hitler, Stalin)

c) He promoted a national ideology (Juiche) which promoted "national self-reliance" although he had to break with that policy in 1995 and ask the UN for food relief, following floods which produced horrible famine.

 d) His suffering people finally overthrew his rule in 2002, after President George w. bush called North Korea, as well as Iran and Iraq, the "axis of evil"

The following are accurate statements about Adam Hussein, another ruthless dictator, Except

a) He ordered his troops to use chemical weapons against his enemy, Iran, in the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) and against his own people (e.g. the Kurds)

b) Although Saddam's main patron was the Soviet Union, his country of Iraq was given weapons in the 1980s by the US, to help the Iraqi fight against Iran

c) The six-week air war, along with the 100-hour ground war, in the 1991 gulf war lead to Saddam's collapse and overthrow

d) Saddam was allowed an incredible gesture during negotiations with general norm Schwarzkopf after the gulf war- he could keep his armed helicopters (which then allowed him to suppress a Shi'ia uprising in southern Iraq and a Kurd uprising in north Iraq)

True or False

A belief which, according to one scholar, allowed Osama bin laden to be transformed from a pious Muslim to a "mass murder" was "takfir" or the doctrine which allowed militant Muslims like bin laden and al Zawahiri to declare other "Muslims" as heretics or none-believers, worthy of death. The first "prominent" victim of this takfir viewpoint was Anwar Sadat, who was assassinated in 1981 by Islamic militants (the type who would later join with bin laden to form al-Qaeda in 1988)