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1.  What happened to the U.S. armed forces after World War II ended?

2.  What were the only two possible American response options to Soviet takeovers of Eastern European nations following World War II?

3.  What events caused the beginning of the U.S. Sixth Fleet deployments to the Mediterranean?

4.  What two Soviet actions in the late 1940s caused the Western democracies to create a formal alliance to counter the spread of Soviet communism?

5.  Where did the Potsdam Conference draw the boundary line between North and South Korea?

6.  Why was General MacArthur relieved by President Truman?

7.  What was the historical significance of the "Pueblo" crisis in 1968?

8.  What was the American response to the discovery of Soviet intermediate-range missiles in Cuba in 1962?

9.  What naval action in 1973 brought the North Vietnamese back to the peace table to sign an agreement?

10.  Why did the United States take military action in Panama in 1989?