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Cold War 21:4-6 Test 2
Cold War 21:4-6 Test 2
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1
Who was the pilot of the American U-2 spy plane?
Francis Gary Powers
Dwight Eisenhower
Alger Hiss
Douglas MacArthur
2
During the Cold Sar, which event happened last?
Destroying the Berlin Wall
Launching of Sputnik
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
3
American interest in developing a hydrogen bomb intensified when
The Soviets exploded a hydrogen bomb.
The Rosenbergs were executed
The Berlin Wall fell
The Soviets exploded an atomic bomb
4
Secretary of State and National Security Advisor was responsible for smoothing U.S. relations with the USSR and China
Henry Kissinger
John Foster Dulles
Richard Nixon
John Quincy Adams
5
Who became the first communist leader of Cuba?
Castro
Khrushev
Breshnev
Gorbachev
6
Who invaded Hungary and fired on the protesters?
Great Britain
FBI
USSR
CIA
7
Which president visited China and the USSR?
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Nixon
8
Kennedy sent air support in the Bay of Pigs invasion
False
True
9
We boycotted the Moscow Olympics while who was president?
Reagan
Nixon
Ford
Carter
10
In order to prevent Communists from staging revolutions within developing countries, Eisenhower
used massive retaliation
had the communists removed from the United Nations
placed embargoes on the Soviet Union
used covert operations
11
Why did the U.S. not step in when Soviets invaded Hungary?
NATO voted not to step in.
Our policy of containment didn't include removing Soviets from their land
The UN said we could not go to war.
We didn't have enough weapons.
12
Where were the Olympics held that we boycotted in 1980?
Soviet Union
China
Cuba
Afghanistan
13
Who said, "Ich bin ein Berliner" in his speech in Berlin?
Khruschev
Castro
Kennedy
Johnson
14
Which president said we would start the Strategic Defense Initiative?
Nixon
Reagan
Ford
Carter
15
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Shephard
Gargarin
Glenn
Armstrong
16
Which of the following was a pledge to defend the Middle East against communism?
MIddle East Mandate
Truman Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
Long Telegram
17
Defensive military alliance of the United States, Canada, and ten European nations
United Nations
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Marshall Plan
18
What happened to East and West Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall?
They rebuild the wall.
Nothing at all
They unified into one democratic country.
They unified into one communist country.
19
The US removed its missiles from Turkey as part of the negotiations in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
True
False
20
Who was the first man in space?
Glenn
Armstrong
Gargarin
Shephard
21
The US started NASA after which event?
Soviets made an H bomb
Soviets launched Sputnik
Soviets tested an atomic bomb
Soviets sent a man in space
22
Which country nationalized their oil supply and then the CIA helped back the rebels to overhthrow their government?
Iraq
Iran
Guatemala
Saudi Arabia
23
Who launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik?
United States
Soviet Union
China
Japan
24
Which president started the policy of detente?
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
25
Which country gave American owned land to peasants and then the CIA helped overhthrow their government?
Guatemala
Egypt
Hungary
Iran
26
He became president of after Kennedy was assassinated.
Johnson
Ford
Reagan
Carter
27
What organization used spies to get information and to carry out covert actions?
Warsaw Pact
HUAC
CIA
NATO
28
As secretary of state, he proposed the U.S. declare its intention to use massive retaliation against its agressors.
Fidel Castro
Henry Kissinger
John Foster Dulles
Francis Gary Powers
29
The hotline was put in the White House and the Kremlin after which event?
Berlin Wall came down
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sputnik was launched
Bay of Pigs Fiasco
30
What country did the Soviets invade in the late 70s which helped put a huge strain on their economics?
Saudi Arabia
Afghanistan
Vietnam
Egypt
31
The military policy of fighting conventional wars and keeping nuclear arms balanced was called
Brinkmanship
Massive retaliation
Flexible Response
Detente
32
Which is NOT true of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The U.S. pulled our missiles out of Turkey after it.
Castro was executed.
The Soviets pulled the missiles out of Cuba after it.
The US blockaded Cuba.
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Willingness to go to the edge or brink of war
Detente
Military industrial complex
Perestroika
Brinkmanship
34
What is the policy of openness in the Soviet Union known as?
Realpolitik
Glastnost
Detente
Perestroika
35
Soviet leader after Stalin
Dulles
Powers
Lenin
Khruschev
36
When did the Berlin Wall fall?
1992
1997
1989
1985
37
Who was president when the U-2 spy plane was shot down?
Truman
Johnson
Kennedy
Eisenhower
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Who had the Berlin wall built?
Castro
Khrushev
Kennedy
Hitler
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Who was supposed to be ousted in the Bay of Pigs?
Khrushev
Stalin
Castro
Kennedy