Cold War: At Home & Abroad

The Peace Corps was established by President John F. Kennedy in an effort to provide

In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to

The major goal of United States foreign policy in the period 1946-1972 was to

Why was the war in Korea unsuccessful?

The main reason for providing aid to Europe under the Marshall Plan was to

The (NATO) and the Truman Doctrine were attempts to carry out a foreign policy of

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s use of U.S. forces to fight in the Vietnam War was an action that

The Truman Doctrine & the Marshall Plan represented attempts by the United States to deal with

North Korean troops invaded South Korea over the border at

Which statement about the United States involvement in the Vietnam War is accurate?

The Truman Doctrine was originally designed to

The ratification of the 26th amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, was a result of the

What was a major reason President Lyndon B. Johnson decided not to run for reelection in 1968?

What was significant of the use of Military to protect African American students in Little Rock

To stop the threat of communism in Asia, General MacArthur wanted

The United States committed to a Cold War policy of mutual defense when it

The decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka advanced the civil rights movement by

Following the end of WWII, United States foreign policy changed significantly in that the U.S.

What was one outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962?

In the 1960s bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, and freedom rides were organized to achieve

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was intended to end

One similarity between the Korean War and the Vietnam War is that during both wars

Martin Luther King Jr first emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement when he

Who led a “witch hunt” for Communist spies in the U.S. government during the early 1950s?

What ways did Kennedy address the issues of civil rights?

What was the U2 incident?

President Harry Truman advanced the cause of civil rights for African Americans by

One difference between World War II and the Vietnam War is that the Vietnam War

President Harry Truman changed the United States military after World War II by

The principal goal of the United Nations has been to

The successful launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 signaled the beginning of

How many nations made up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

A cause of public controversy during the Korean War & the Vietnam War was that in each conflict

The international peacekeeping alliance that provided mutual defense and collective security is

What situation was a result of the Vietnam War?

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed the literacy test as a voting qualification was that

The goal of President Harry Truman’s Fair Deal was to

Since World War II relations between the Soviet Union and the United States have been marked by

The “domino theory” popular in the 1950s and 1960s assumed the expansion of

The domino theory was used by the United States as a justification for

The Truman Doctrine and the Berlin Airlift were examples of the United States foreign policy of

Kennedy's program that dealt with urban and social programs was known as the

The United States experience in the Vietnam War supports the idea that the outcome of a war

President Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of his command in the Korea primarily b/c

President John F. Kennedy’s most significant foreign policy failure involved the

The Marshall Plan (1948) and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) are most closely associated with

The 1950s and 1960s can be characterized by a population explosion called the

The Red Scare in 1919 and McCarthyism in the 1950s illustrate that

The Marshall Plan was an economic aid program that helped rebuild

One result of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was that the two nations

The policy of restricting communism to areas where it already existed is called

The United States foreign policy was followed in the decade after World War II was intended to

The War Powers Act of 1973 is an example of

As a result of the Interstate Highway Act of 1956, the United States experienced

The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960s was to

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed in an effort to correct

Which statement about the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) is most accurate?

The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to provide Europe with

A major goal of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society program was to

Which statement concerning the black civil rights movement of the 1960s is accurate?