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Unit 5 The Cold War and The Great Society
Unit 5 The Cold War and The Great Society
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1
Jewish American couple executed for handing over information to USSR on A-bomb
Letha and Clarence Umphrese
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
Archie and Edith Bunker
2
The Main purpose of the flexible response military strategy was?
Enable the U.S. to do the splits while fighting
Allow the U.S. to throat kick communists
enable U.S. to fight limited wars around the world
Prepare for the Bay of Pigs
3
Best known for investigating communism in the film industry
CIA
NAACP
FBI
HUAC
4
JFK appointed his brother Robert to serve as?
secretary of defense
secretary of state
attorney general
5
To suggest that a person is making unsupported accusations
Containment
McCarthyism
brinkmanship
infiltration
6
What is the main reason the US instituted the Marshall plan to rebuild war torn Europe
To spread US imoerialism
to remove government control of marketplace
To counter the influence of Communism
7
Medicare, a federal program established for Americans age 65 and over was intended to provide
education
health insurance
housing
8
What contributed to the end of the Cuban missile crisis?
Castros promis to sell U.S. cigars
Americas promis to take Cubas best baseballers
America's secret promise to remove missiles from Turkey
Castros promise to restore Democracy
9
Brinkmanship threatened retaliation to the edge of all out war against aggression toward U.S.
False
Maybe
True
10
This group decided not to cooperate with the HUAC investigation
Hollywood tinmen
Arkansas Nine
Nine inch Nails
Hollywood ten
11
Which groups were intended to benefit the most from the Great Society programs
chinese farmers and labores
minorites and the poor
White middle class farmers
businessmen
12
Who was the leader of the Communists in China
Mao Zedonkey
Bruce Lee
Mao Zedong
Um pompa mao mao
13
Why did President Truman Fire General MacArthur?
his insistance to bomb Ozark
insistance to bomb chucky cheese's
his consistant criticism of Truman
his insistance to bomb China
14
This group consisted of Eastern European nations dominated by the USSR
Warsaw Pact
united Nations
Satellite nations
NATO
15
Who appeared to be winning the Korean War until China actively entered the conflict
Communists
Nnorth Koreans
South Koreans
Nationalists
16
In a capital system what takes place
the state controls the economic activiyt
elected officials control economic activity
the dictator controls economic activity
private citizens control economic activity
17
McCarthyism is the unfair tactic of accussing people of disloyalty
True
False
18
This gentleman could only be charged with perjury not espionage because of the number of years.
Alger Hiss
Gen. MacArthur
James Bond
Ronald Reagan
19
General Douglas McArthur commanded U.S. forces in ?
Korea
Afghansitan
New York
Iraq
20
The Peace Corps, a program of volunteer assistance to developing nations was
porposed by Kennedy and succeeded
Proposed by LBJ and succeeded
proposed by Kennedy and failed
21
At various times he claimed to have knowledge of a number of Communists working for the US Gov.
Julius Rosenburg
Sen. Joe Biden
Alger Hiss
Sen. Joe McCarthy
22
What was the main reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall?
to reduce Cold War tensions
To stop EastGermans from eating McDonalds
to emabarass America
to stop East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin
23
The main goal of this was to stop spread of communism
Truman Doctrine
Reagonomics
Warsaw Pact
Iron Curtain
24
The Soviets set this up in response from the West to reunify Germany
Berlin Blockade
Iron Curtain
Iron Wall
Berlin Airlift
25
Which of the following reflects the findings of the Warren Commission
fidel Castro was involved
Their were multpile shooters with an unmagic bullet
Oswald and Ruby were part of a conspiracy
Oswald acted alone
26
Who was defeated in the civil war in China despite 2 billion dollars in aid from U.S.
Royals
American League
National League
Nationalists
27
after the assassination of JFK the Warren Commission investigation concluded
Jack Diamond Ruby acted alone
John Wilkes Booth acted alone
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
28
When an armistice was signed ending the Korean War
communist fears in the U.S. were lifted
a communist government was established in South Korea
China gained control of the entire peninsula
North and South Korea still divided at 38th paralell
29
Billions in economic aid was provided to many foreign nations as part of the Truman Doctrine
True
False
30
The US pilots U2 spy plane was shot down spying over the USSR
Francis Pyle Powers
Francis Avalon
Francis Gary Powers
Gary Francis
31
Satellite nations of the Soviet Union joined the military alliance known as the Warsaw pact
True
False
32
LBJ who became president when Kennedy was assassinated was ?
opposed to the Great Society
never elected president by the people
an experienced politician
33
The United States response to fear of Soviet Military action in the Middle East
Eisenhower Doctrine
Clinton Doctrine
Brinkmanship
Marshall Plan
34
The hotline established in 1963 did all of the following
except?
barred nuclear testing
make communication easier in crisis
link the White house and Kremlin
35
The U2 incident involved the use of airplanes to bring food to people of West Berlin
True
False
