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World History Quiz 1 Notes  The line graph shows US defense spending from 1946 to 1968. What happened to US defense spending from 1946 to 1948? o It dropped by approximately $30,000 million. 

Which country launched the first satellite into outer space? o the Soviet Union

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The closest the world came to war during the Cold War was when the Soviet Union placed missiles on the Caribbean island of o Cuba.

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Which of the following resulted from the Vietnam War? Select all that apply o Vietnam is united under a Communist government. o Support for the containment of Communism lessens. o Anti-government feelings spread in the United States. o Communism spreads to Laos and Cambodia.

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Intercontinental ballistic missiles made it possible for a country possessing them o To strike targets far away.

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The line graph shows US defense spending from 1946 to 1968. What happened to US defense spending from 1946 to 1948? o It dropped by approximately $30,000 million.

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The two superpowers that opposed each other during the Cold War were the United States and o the Soviet Union

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In the 1800s, Vietnam was colonized by the European country of o France

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The Vietcong were rebels in South Vietnam who wanted to unify the South and North under a Communist government.

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The arms race meant that once the United States built hydrogen bombs o the Soviet Union built them too.

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Read the passage from a speech on Vietnam given by President Nixon in 1969. "For the future of peace, precipitate withdrawal would thus be a disaster of immense magnitude. o A nation cannot remain great if it betrays its allied and lets down its friends.

o Our defeat and humiliation in South Vietnam without question would promote recklessness in the councils of those great powers who have not yet abandoned their goals of world conquest. o This would spark violence wherever our commitments help maintain the peace— in the Middle East, in Berlin, eventually even in the Western Hemisphere 

What foreign policy direction does the President say the United States should follow o The US should not withdraw from Vietnam, because that would cause problems elsewhere.

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Which Cold War event happened last? o The Vietnam War ends

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The line graph shows US defense spending from 1946 to 1968. What happened to US defense spending from 1946 to 1948? o It dropped by approximately $30,000 million...