Cold War Review U.S.

Question 1

This term is used to describe the fear of other countries surrounding communist countries falling to communist ideals

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 2

The U.S. involved itself in Vietnam because

Accepted Answer

They were worried the surrounding countries would become communist

Question 3

Ceasar Chavez started a union for who?

Accepted Answer

Immigrant Farmers

Question 4

What government did South Korea embrace during the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

Democracy

Question 5

What court case found segregation in schools as being unconstitutional, Seperate was not Equal

Accepted Answer

Brown vs. Board of Education

Question 6

This was the U.S. policy for dealing with communism in the 1950's and 1960's

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 7

What government did North Korea embrace during the Korean War

Accepted Answer

Communism

Question 8

Brown vs Board of Education gave rise to the modern civil rights movement

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

What year were MLK Jr. and Robert Kennedy assassinated?

Accepted Answer

1968

Question 10

What year did the Democratic National Convetion Riot occur?

Accepted Answer

1968

Question 11

How did the U.S. respond to Sputnik?

Accepted Answer

Both increased math and science and created NASA

Question 12

This act called for an end to discrimination in the workplace and it was the center of Johnson's civil rights agenda

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 13

Johnson's Great society consisted of reforms in health care, education, and civil rights

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

The Cuban Missle Crisis was between what 2 powers?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union vs US

Question 15

The Truman doctrine gave money to whom?

Accepted Answer

People fighting communism

Question 16

The failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion led the Soviets to do what?

Accepted Answer

Soviets bringing nuclear missles to Cuba

Question 17

Which NASA program was responsible for putting a man on the moon in 1969?

Accepted Answer

Apollo

Question 18

Did the Korean War change the governments of North and South Korea?

Accepted Answer

No

Question 19

What happened at the Army-McCarthy Hearings?

Accepted Answer

McCarthy was discredited on national TV and he lost his political power.

Question 20

the 1960 presidential debate illustrated what

Accepted Answer

The importance of TV in American Society

Question 21

What organization was created to defend against possible Soviet action?

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 22

African Americans challenged laws and customs that violated their constitutional rights

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

This caused a dramatic increase in U.S. troop numbers in 1964 in Vietnam

Accepted Answer

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Question 24

Brown vs Board of Education overturned Plessy vs Ferguson

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

To end the Cuban Missle Crisis the Soviet Union agreed to do what?

Accepted Answer

To take out its missles in Cuba

Question 26

What was the main impact of people seeing the Vietnam War on TV?

Accepted Answer

it stopped a lot of support for the Vietnam War

Question 27

What was the purpose of the interstate in the beginning?

Accepted Answer

transporting military equipment quickly

Question 28

The Bay of Pigs invasion was successful

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

All of these were effects of the 1965 Voters Rights Act, EXCEPT what?

Accepted Answer

Greater support for Kennedy's domestic plans

Question 30

What were the series of attacks in South Vietnam in 1968 known as

Accepted Answer

Tet Offensive

Question 31

What group of people did Sen. Joe McCarthy call out in congressional hearings

Accepted Answer

Supporters of communism

Question 32

Fidel Castro became the communist leader of what country?

Accepted Answer

Cuba

Question 33

Did the Soviets accuse the U.S. of having racist tendencies

Accepted Answer

yes

Question 34

MLK Jr. was the president of what organization?

Accepted Answer

SCLC

Question 35

What happened as a result of MLK Jr being assassinated

Accepted Answer

Riots in cities across the US

Question 36

What country inspired Ho Chi Minh to lead his home country of Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 37

President Truman did not desegregate the U.S. military

Accepted Answer

False

Question 38

Lyndon Johnson decided to run for president in 1968

Accepted Answer

False

Question 39

This organization was responsible for moving students around the South in order to protest segregation

Accepted Answer

SNCC

Question 40

What was used to help WWII veterans go to school and attain loans?

Accepted Answer

G.I. Bill

Question 41

What did the Marshall Plan set out to restore?

Accepted Answer

Europe after WWII

Question 42

What had the biggest impact on consumerism in the 1950's and 1960's?

Accepted Answer

TV

Question 43

What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

Accepted Answer

CIA backed invasion of Cuba

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