AS-100 C6 L2 The Vietnam War and Other Military Ops

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1 Name Flt Date A. Define, Describe, or Identify: (Page #s are required) 1. POW - a prisoner of war. (p. 228) 2. Nuclear war - involving the atomic bomb or the hydrogen bomb. (p. 229) 3. Arms race - war a competition for military supremacy. (p. 231) 4. International waters - areas of the seas where ships from any nation have the right to travel. (p. 232) 5. Guerrilla warfare a type of fighting in which small bands of fighters hit morepowerful forces by surprise. (p. 233) 6. Solitary confinement when a prisoner is held in a cell alone and not allowed to talk to anyone. (p. 237) 7. Neutral not taking sides. (p. 239) 8. Ballistic a kind of missile that free-falls after a self-powered flight. (p. 251) 9. Warhead the explosive tip of a missile. (p. 251) 1 P a g e

2 B. Multiple Choice: (Page #s are required) Circle the letter that provides the best answer. 1. Which event brought the US as close as it has ever been to nuclear war? a. The Berlin Airlift. b. The Korean War. c. The Cuban Missile Crisis. d. The North Vietnamese attack on South Vietnam. 2. How did US involvement in Vietnam begin? a. The Vietnamese people appealed to the US to expel the Japanese. b. In July 1950 the US supplied money to France s effort to regain control of its colonies in Indochina. c. In 1957 the CIA uncovered a secret Vietnamese effort to create a nuclear bomb. d. Viet Cong planted a bomb on the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon. 3. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution a. Allowed military strikes against North Vietnam. b. Declared war on North Vietnam. c. Set a deadline for US troop withdrawals from Vietnam. d. Called on the White House to seek peace negotiations with Hanoi. 4. How did the US originally respond to the ban on the use of fighter jets in Vietnam? a. It trained South Vietnam s Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) to fly propeller aircraft. b. It sent high-ranking diplomats to Geneva to lobby for a change in the rules. c. After the North Vietnamese kept crossing the 17th parallel into South Vietnam, the US Air Force taught the VNAF how to fly jets. d. Both a and c. 5. Which of these statements is not true of the helicopters US forces used in Vietnam? a. Though lightweight, they were as tough as fighters and bombers. b. They were effective in the jungle. c. They spared troops long marches through thick undergrowth. d. They were effective at picking up wounded troops from the field. 6. Which was not an outcome of Operation Eagle Claw in 1980? a. The cancellation of the mission because the helicopters had mechanical problems. b. A collision by a Navy helicopter with a USAF cargo plane. c. Efforts to improve coordination between different branches of the military. d. The rescue of the hostages in Iran. 2 P a g e

3 C. Matching: (Page #s are required) Match the definition in Column A with the name in Column B. You may use each name only once. Column A Column B f 1. He was a model prisoner of war. 228 b 2. He was the only American to die in the Cuban Missile Crisis. 229 i 3. He was appointed a second lieutenant on the basis of informal Officer Candidate School training received while he was held as a prisoner of war for eight years. 237 d 4. Wounded three times himself, he continued fighting and helping others until he died in action that day. 238 a 5. He had to resign from the military and secretly join the CIA to perform his mission. 239 g 6. Even after taking 40 hits from shrapnel, he was able to save the life of a comrade about to fall through an open cargo door on his AC h 7. He dispatched a force of roughly 200 Marines to retake the Mayaguez off the coast of Cambodia. 241 e 8. An on-scene commander during the Mayaguez incident, he was awarded the Silver Star and the Mackay Trophy. 241 c 9. The last US serviceman to engage the enemy in Southeast Asia. 242 j 10. He was the first African-American fourstar general in the military. 242 a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. Richard Etchberger Rudolf Anderson Jr. Wayne Fisk William Pitsenbarger Robert Undorf Lance Sijan John Levitow Gerald Ford William Robinson Daniel James 3 P a g e

4 D. Word Find: (Page #s are required) Unscramble the words below and write them in the blanks. Then find and circle the words in the puzzle. POW Nuclear war Arms race International Waters Guerrilla warfare Solitary Confinement Neutral Ballistic Warhead Hydrogen bomb Blockade Coordination Shrapnel Flares 1. OWP 2. UNCLEAR RAW 3. SMAR CARE 4. TATINENILORAN 5. STREWA 6. RELRILUGA FARREWA 7. TRIALOSY 8. CENTOFINNEM 9. TRULANE 10. CLASBITIL 11. RHAEDAW 12. HERODYGN OMBB 13. DELKABOC 14. NOODRATINICO 15. LESPHARN 16. SLAFER 4 P a g e

5 E. True/False: (Page #s are required) Put a T in the blank if the sentence is true and an F if it is false. F 1. Because the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred before the invention of the Global Positioning System (GPS), the US couldn t really be sure whether there were Soviet missiles in Cuba. F 2. Cuba had intermediate-range missiles that could have reached as far as Seattle. F 3. An important outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis was a slowing of the arms race. T 4. During the Vietnam War, the Communists didn t have much air power. T 5. During Operation Rolling Thunder, President Johnson ordered the Air Force not to strike sites linked with the Soviets or Chinese. T 6. The Vietnam War experience taught the US Air Force that it must thoroughly defeat an enemy. T 7. The US public s desire to avoid heavy casualties in military operations led to more reliance on air power to support US goals. F 8. During the Cold War, Soviet nuclear weapons were NATO s only real fear. F 9. Operation Urgent Fury, conducted in 1983, failed to oust the would-be Communist government in Panama. T 10. The US attack on Libya on 14 April 1986 involved the F-111 on a 6,400-mile round trip from a base in Britain the longest for any combat mission in Air Force history at that time. 5 P a g e