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1
The Truman Plan and Marshall Doctrine
Gave money to countries to help them not become communist
were never passed
Gave the American Military money in order to buy bigger weapons
Was set up to help take over China
2
What event signaled the end of the cold war?
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The bombing if Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The unification of Vietnam
The fall of the Iron Curtain
3
What incident got us more directly involved in the war in Vietnam?
The invasion of the Bay of Pigs
The bombing of our ship in the Gulf of Tonkin
The bombing of Pear Harbor
The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
4
Sputnik was a Russian
Satellite
Dog
Bomb
Spaceship
5
Why were the US and Soviet Union reluctant to fight each other directly
pressure from non aligned countries stopped us
The United Nations was doing such a good job
we were more worried about tensions in the middle east
the potential for global nuclear war scared us
6
Which was the alliance of
communist
countries?
The Allies
NATO
The Axis Powers
The Warsaw Pact
7
What does the Domino Theory have to do with the Vietnam War
We needed to make sure we were not fighting the Viet Cong Alone
We worried that if Vietnam fell to communism other countries would fall.
Don't just bomb Vietnam, bomb all the surrounding countries
Soldiers really liked playing dominoes
8
Fidel Castro was the leader of what country
Cuba
Soviet Union
Germany
Afghanistan
9
Why did we need the Berlin Airlift?
Stalin had blocked goods from going into West Berlin
We needed to get more missiles to overseas countries
Stalin had bombed the US
We wanted a good air show
10
The event where we sent in Cuban exiles to free Cuba from communists was known as
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Iran Contra Scandal
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Airlift
11
The United Nations is
a Group of Soccer teams that compete for the World Cup
an Anti-communist group
a Group created after WWII to help keep world peace
an Pro-Communist group
12
The Pentagon Papers showed
The government had misled us in our intentions in Vietnam
That the Soviets were losing the Cold War
How the Pentagon needed major renovations
That Nixon had helped cover up the Watergate Scandal
13
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
was a declaration of war against China
sanctioned the president over Watergate
gave the president the power to do what he needed to win in Vietnam
established our dominance of the Soviet Union
14
Set up after WWII the United Nations is good at all the following except
Helping people get educations
Helping feed people
Keeping world peace
15
The Korean War started when
the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan
North Korean troops invaded South Korea
North Korea was invaded by South Korean troops
Soviet troops invaded South Korea
16
What was the name of the
IMAGINARY
line that separated the communist from non-communist countries in Europe?
Iron Curtain
Cuban Blockade
Berlin Wall
38th Parallel
17
Which of these is an example of Detente?
Warsaw Pact
NASA
NATO
SALT
18
In the Cuban Missile Crisis, we responded to the coming missiles by
We assassinated their leader
Blockading Cuba with our Navy
Invading Cuba at the Bay of Pigs
Invaded Russia
19
The Berlin Wall was built to
stop Mexicans from illegally coming into the US
stop supplies from being shipped into East Berlin
help create jobs for construction workers
keep East Germans from fleeing to free West Germany/Berlin
20
What was the goal of SALT
to work to build up more nuclear weapons
to raise peoples blood pressure
to create an alliance of nuclear powers
to limit/reduce nuclear weapons
21
The launch of Sputnik lead us to create
START
NASA
SALT
NATO
22
Détente, besides being an awkward French word means...
Easing of Cold War Tensions
Give money to solve a problem
Creating more opportunity for conflict
I have no idea
23
Our foreign policy for dealing with the Soviet Union and communism during the Cold War was
Containment
Total Destruction
Search and Destroy
Watchful Waiting
24
Which was the alliance of
non-communist
countries?
NATO
The Allies
Warsaw Pact
The Axis Powers
25
The result of the Watergate Scandal was
Congressional power was reduced
Nixon was sent to jail
the Rosenberg's were sent to the electric chair
Nixon resigned from office
26
The name of the spies that were sent to the electric chair were
The Nixon's
The Rosenberg's
The Fritz's
The McCarthy's
27
Why do we even become involved in Vietnam
They owe us money
They bombed us
We don't want Communist North Vietnam to take over South Vietnam
We get lots of oil from them
28
The domino theory states that...
If one country falls to communism many will fall to communism
Domino's pizza must deliver in 30 minutes or less
We have to expand democracy at all costs
People in communists countries will want democracy once exposed to it.
