Author Question: The United States ultimately supported which side during Vietnam's struggle for independence from ... (Read 88 times)

burton19126 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Discontent with Soviet rule in which country led to an uprising and brutal Soviet repression in October of 1956?

A) Hungary
B) China
C) Bulgaria
D) East Germany

Question 2

The United States allied with which fellow member of the United Nations to bring about the end of the Suez Crisis in 1956?

A) Israel
B) Britain
C) France
D) Soviet Union

Question 3

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev surprised the world in a speech in February 1956, in which he

A) offered to destroy all Soviet nuclear weapons.
B) declared communism to be a failure and embraced capitalism.
C) denounced former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's tyranny, trials and purges of political rivals, and mass executions.
D) promised to put a man on the moon by 1965.

Question 4

China's shelling of the two islands of ________ and ________ almost sparked American intervention.

A) Quemoy and Formosa
B) Formosa and Taiping
C) Hokkaido and Honshu
D) Quemoy and Matsu

Question 5

The United States ultimately supported which side during Vietnam's struggle for independence from France?

A) Vietnamese
B) French
C) Japanese
D) Chinese