Cold War Conflicts MFD

Although all the North Vietnamese attacks during the Tet Offensive failed, the Americans were still seen to have lost the battle because

• the Chinese stopped supplying the North Vietnamese
• the offensive caused American public opinion to turn against the war
  

Israel fought to take away Sinai and the Suez Canal from the Egyptians because

• they did not want the canal under Arab control
  
• they knew the Soviets would run the canal behind the scenes
  

Operation Desert Storm was fought ostensibly to regain Kuwait for the Kuwaitis, but also to

• safeguard Middle Eastern oil supplies for the United States and Europe
• serve as an example of American influence in the Middle East
  

American withdrawal in Vietnam led to the rise of _____________________ in Cambodia, along with the genocide of two million Cambodians.

• Vo Nguyen Giap and the Vietminh
• Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge

The Hungarian Revolution against Communist rule led to

• recognition of the new Hungarian government by the United States
  
• the brutal repression of the uprising by Soviet troops
  

The Soviet war in Afghanistan has come to be seen as

• the Soviets’ Vietnam
  
• the downfall of radical Islam in the Middle East

Cesar Chavez used the civil disobedience tactics first practiced by __________________ with a good deal of success. 

• Martin Luther King
  
• Mahatma Gandhi

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered the building of the Berlin Wall during the Berlin Crisis in order to

• keep westerners out of East Berlin
  
• control the flow of goods from East to West Berlin
  

Emmitt Till’s killers were acquitted largely because of

• poor understanding of judicial procedure in Mississippi
  
• racism
  

Guatemala was typical of other places in which the U.S. intervened during the Cold War in that

• the CIA overthrew the legitimate  government in favor of a right-wing dictatorship
• the U.S. tried to imposed Western-style democracy on the country