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Duplicate of Unit Six -- Cold War -- Review
Duplicate of Unit Six -- Cold War -- Review
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Why did the U.S. invade Afghanistan in 2001?
Looking for Ho Chi Minh after Vietnam
Looking for Kim Il Sung after Korean War
Looking for Castro after the Bay of Pigs
Looking for Osama bin Laden after 9/11
2
What civil rights leader addressed the irony of integrated troops serving a segregated country?
Frederick Douglass
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Harriet Tubman
Mahatma Gandhi
3
Which president visited China and Russia helping to end the Cold War?
Nixon
Kennedy
Ford
Johnson
4
What did President Reagan do to help win the Cold War?
spend more money on defense
spend less money on defense
took Iranians hostage
invaded Afghanistan
5
Which of the following conflicts was the shortest?
Persian Gulf War
Korean War
Vietnam War
World War II
6
Why did China become involved in the Korean War?
North Korea was attempting to take Chinese territory
UN forces had reached the Yalu River
The US bombed Chinese troops across the 38th Parallel
South Korea asked for help in defeating the North Koreans
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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during this crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Putin
Joseph Stalin
8
What did Churchill mean when he said "an iron curtain has descended across the continent"?
The Berlin Wall was built to separate Germany
North Korea and South Korea were divided
Half of Europe was communist while the other half was free
The world was divided between the Axis and Allies
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What does President George W. Bush say that Americans will do in the wake of 9/11?
Restart the Cold War with the Soviets
Defeat Isis and make America great again
Defend American freedom
Attack Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction
10
What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift?
get supplies to people in East Berlin
get supplies to people in West Berlin
land troops in West Berlin
land troops in East Berlin
11
In 1979, student revolutionaries opposed to U.S. involvement seized the U.S. embassy where?
Afghanistan
Iran
Egypt
Syria
12
Who launched the Tet offensive?
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Russia
the U.S.
13
Detente and Realpolitik are approaches that emphasize what?
practical limits on power
total war
moral right and willingness to fight for it
isolationism and neutrality
14
In what country did the US first engage terrorists following September 11th?
Iraq
Afghanistan
Cuba
Sudan
15
What was the name of the Russian satellite that started the Space Race?
Odyssey
Sputnik
Vanguard
Glasnost
16
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union when the Cold War ended?
Lenin
Khrushchev
Gorbachev
Stalin
17
What U.S. senator accused persons of being communists, often without proof?
Senator Joe Donnelly
Senator Joe Biden
Senator Joe McCarthy
Senator Joe Lieberman
18
What physical feature represented the division between democracies and communist governments?
Panama Canal
Berlin Wall
Great Wall of China
Equator
19
What is the point of the cartoonist?
Europe was becoming more capitalist
Stalin is attempting to expand Soviet control
France had been taken over by communist rulers
Stalin was allied with the US in defeating Hitler
20
What was the Marshall Plan?
US aid to Asia after the Korean War
US aid to Southeast Asia after Vietnam
US aid to Europe after World War II
US aid to Russia after World War I
21
Besides North Korea, what major power opposed the United States in the Korean War?
China
Germany
Russia
France
22
In what year did the U.S. have the most troops in Vietnam?
1978
1968
1958
1948
23
In what incident did Americans deliberately take civilian lives in Vietnam?
Bay of Pigs
My Lai
Gulf of Tonkin
38th Parallel
24
What term means that the U.S. should stop the spread of Communism, but not invade to stop it?
isolationism
containment
neutrality
intervention
25
Why were people so concerned about the Cuban Missile Crisis?
They feared the price of building the army.
They feared a land invasion of Florida.
They feared nuclear attacks.
They feared a military draft.