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70 Cards in this Set
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This form of government would dominate eastern Europe and would be backed by the Soviet Union.
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Communism |
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President Truman would use these methods to stem the spreading of Communism.
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Deterrence, containment, and cooperative security
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What was the military key to the Cold War?
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Nuclear Deterrence
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What would be the fundamental post-war (WW2) legislation on postwar (WW2) organization? |
1947 National Security Act |
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Which Military Service Branch would receive the most funding and support during the beginning stages of the Cold War? |
The U.S. Air Force |
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What organization would act as the primary form of deterrence to the spread of Communism and mutual defense of Western Europe? |
NATO |
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What would cause the Communist Chinese to enter the Korean War against the United States and South Korea? |
General MacArthur Pushed his forces all the Way to the Yalu River, which threatened the Chinese. |
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What new military technology would revolutionize the way the United States conducted reconnaissance, casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) and troop transport during the Korean War?
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The Helicopter
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What component of the Air Force was responsible for defending the United States and its allies through the use of nuclear weapons? |
Strategic Air Command (SAC) |
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What event in March, 1953 would help the peace process with the Chinese and North Koreans? |
The death of Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin |
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What “triad” of nuclear weapons remained at the heart of American strategy during the Cold War? |
Intercontinental bombers, Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and Submarines armed with intermediate range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) |
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Due to the worry of increased nuclear proliferation among many nations during the initial phase of the Cold War, what was instituted to prevent “the stupid starting of stupid war”? |
Arms Control |
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What was the name of Eisenhower’s policy that reduced military spending, de-emphasized conventional forces while emphasizing nuclear deterrence? |
The New Look |
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How would the United States gain knowledge about Soviet military activities and scientific advancement? |
Through intelligence activities |
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Based, on war-gaming, why was the New Look and the primary use of nuclear weapons problematic for NATO |
West Germany would be destroyed |
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What events would no Nuclear Deterrence to be practically useless? |
Continued Skirmishes between North and South Korea; skirmishes between China and Taiwan; failed French Military Effort on Indo-China; Israeli, French and British military response to Egypt’s annexation of the Suez Canal |
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This policy, championed by new President, John F. Kennedy, would increase both conventional and nuclear forces, while improving our ability to fight “small wars” with Special Operations Forces and improved intelligence. |
Flexible Response |
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Though the “Bay of Pigs” would show the initial problems of our commitment to Flexible Response, this pivotal event in 1962 would show American Resolve and the utility of Flexible Response. |
The Cuban Missile Crisis |
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This Joint Army-Air Force unit combined two Army Airborne Divisions (82nd and 101st) with the Tactical Air Command (TAC) and Military Airlift Command (MAC)? |
Strike Command |
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This Secretary of Defense under JFK, would be the Key Architect of Flexible Response and would be instrumental in shaping the U.S. Military for decades? |
Robert McNamara |
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What kind of methods would be used by both sides during the Vietnam War? |
Conventional and Unconventional warfare |
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This theory explains that if one nation falls to Communism, its neighboring nations will also fall. |
Domino Theory |
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This event would tilt the perceived balance of power in favor of the Communists and put political pressure on the U.S. to support democracy in South Vietnam? |
Mao Zedong’s victory in the Chinese Civil War (Communist Revolution) |
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Name commonly used by the United States to describe the Communist military/paramilitary units established in South Vietnam? |
Viet Cong (VC) |
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What Communists would describe JFKs efforts to support ARVN without direct large-scale American combat involvement while using and increased amount of American “advisors”? |
Special War |
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Defined by the U.S. Army as “the outward manifestation of popular discontent with social and political conditions.” |
Insurgency |
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Which even would give the U.S. the excuse it needed to further escalate the war in Vietnam? |
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident |
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How did Naval Operations support war in Vietnam? |
Interdiction of enemy vessels in South Vietnamese waters, air support and air interdiction missions off of carriers, use of Riverene forces in southern river systems |
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What facilitated the U.S.’s continued lack of experience among its military in Vietnam? |
One-year force deployments (13 months for Marines), 6-month tours for battalion commanders, continued movements to different areas for units. |
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This organization helped combine military and civilians support agencies, but were too late to win over most southern peasants |
Civilian Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) |
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What became the crucial element as public dissent was outpacing military progress in Vietnam? |
Time |
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The considered a military loss for North Vietnam, this event would mark a turning point for the Communists? |
Tet Offensive |
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When President Johnson took steps to disengage from the war and allow the South Vietnamese to take over is also called: |
Vietnamization |
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After suffering heavy losses in several offensives, what new approach would the VC/NVA adopt? |
Wait for American strength to ebb and then conduct a major strike |
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What strategy did General Creighton Abrams adopt, though it was too late |
The “One War” strategy which focused on population security |
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What made ARVN’s leadership so poor? |
1) Officers were from the educated elite and didn’t understand the peasant population or peasant soldiers 2) Many officers were corrupt 3) officers were chosen for political loyalty, not competence |
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What was the name of the program which included the assassinations of VCI?
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Phoenix
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Why did President Nixon conduct secret bombings in Cambodia, ground interdictions into Cambodia (1970), a raid into Laos (1971), and a ferocious response to the enemy’s Easter offensive (1972)?
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To buy time for Vietnamization and to pressure Hanoi at the negotiation table.
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What were the main examples of a U.S. Army in distress? |
War Crimes, disillusion with leadership, and racial tension |
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Which concession made by Nixon during negotiations would effectively doom South Vietnam? |
Allowing NVA troops to stay in the south |
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What would grow to epic proportions and would eventually destroy the Soviet economy, dissolve the Soviet Union, and bring about the end of the Cold War? |
The Arms Race |
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This President would drastically reduce defense spending, pursue détente with the Soviet Union, shift the burden of collective defense to America’s allies while applying a “human rights” test to diplomacy. |
Jimmy Carter |
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In 1977, under the Carter administration, this event would gut the CIA of many of its skilled operators. |
The “Halloween Massacre” |
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What country would the Soviets invade in 1979 to prop up a new Communist Regime and fight against the Mujahedeen? |
Afghanistan |
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What event in 1979 would add to the instability of the Middle East, while testing the political resolve of the United States? |
The Iranian Revolution |
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This U.S. anti-ballistic missile program worried the Soviets and was the most contentious issue during nuclear weapon negotiation |
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or “Star Wars” |
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Which 1986 political act would increase the Senate’s ability to shape defense policy, while creating major combatant commands which included Special Operations Command (SOCOM)? |
Goldwater-Nichols Act |
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Why did Iraq invade Kuwait in 1990? |
It needed Kuwait’s oil and port access to help pay for war debts, rebuild his Army and Air Force, pacify his core Sunni Muslim supporters, pursue plans to build nuclear and chemical strategic weapons, and replace the support of the Soviets with the revenue he could gain from Kuwait |
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These U.S. led coalition operations were in response to the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990. |
Operation DESERT STORM and DESERT SHIELD |
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After DESERT STORM, this operation was meant to protect and feed the Kurdish population in Northern Iraq?
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Operation PROVIDE COMFORT
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Who is the only member of the United Nations with a global military capacity after the end of the Cold War? |
The United States |
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Why isn’t Communist China considered a military threat to the United States? |
Economic interdependence |
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Name of the operation to enforce and keep the peace in Somalia in 1993? |
RESTORE HOPE |
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Which faction would commit “ethnic cleansing” against the other during the (civil?) war in former Yugoslavia? |
Serbia |
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What is the name of the tribe that dominates the Taliban in Afghanistan? |
Pashtun |
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What was the focal point for the creation of al Qaida? |
U.S. basing in the Holy land (Saudi Arabia) and the fight against Zionism and its supporters |
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Why did many Sunni Arab states support the Taliban before September 2001? |
They acted as a counter-balance to the Shia-dominated Iranian government |
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What three nations had the largest representation in al-Qaida prior to September 2001? |
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen |
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What were the emerging security threats after the “fall” of the Soviet Union? |
WMD proliferation, information warfare, peace operations, and operations other than war (OOTW) |
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This conflict was the major interventionist challenge for the Clinton administration?
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Yugoslavian Civil War |
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Who would be a divisive an unyielding force in the Bush administration until he was asked to resign? |
Donald Rumsfeld (SECDEF) |
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What event would cause George W. Bush to declare a Global War on Terror (GWOT) to destroy al-Qaida and its allies? |
9/11 attack on the United States |
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This act was meant to increase national security, but would reduce personal liberty |
The Patriot Act |
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This Operation was put in place to destroy al-Qaida, its allies and take away its sanctuary |
ENDURING FREEDOM |
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Our Afghan allies against the Taliban? |
Northern Alliance |
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March 2002 Operation to destroy largest remaining stronghold of al-Qaida still in Afghanistan?
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ANACONDA
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What nation would the Taliban and al-Qaida seek sanctuary and continue their operations from after being forced from Afghanistan? |
Pakistan |
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This stain on the U.S. Intelligence Community would fuel the insurgency in Iraq? |
Abu Ghraib Prison scandal |
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What event would see the U.S. forming alliances with form Sunni tribes in Anbar (former enemies) against al-Qaida? |
The Sunni Awakening |
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This operation under the Obama Administration would see a different surge in Afghanistan after the re-emergence of the Taliban? |
MOSHTARAK
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