What was president Kennedy's motivation for authorizing the Bay of Pigs invasion?

The potential to establish a non-communist government in Cuba

What was the goal of Containment?

To stop the spread of communism

What was the goal of Containment?

To stop the spread of communism

What is the message of this cartoon?

The world community needs to stop spreading nuclear weapons

What started or prompted the Berlin Airlift?

Russia surrounded Berlin and cut off all food shipments

Which was the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Kennedy successfully negotiated with the Soviets and established a hotline

If the spread of nuclear weapons was so controversial why did USA and USSR keep building nukes?

To increase their own capabilities as a deterent

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1
What was president Kennedy's motivation for authorizing the Bay of Pigs invasion?
The USA's desire to bring nuclear weapons into Cuba
The USSR's desire to remove nuclear weapons from Cuba
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The potential to establish a non-communist government in Cuba
2
The goal of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan was to..
Contain Communism
Stop Hitler Germany
Control Vietnam
Help the poor in the US
3
The goal of the Truman Doctrine and Marshal plan was to..
Help the poor in the US
Stop Hitler Germany
Control Vietnam
Contain Communism
4
What was the goal of Containment?
To stop the spread of communism
To remain isolationist
To maintain peace at all costs
To conqueror South East Asia
5
What was Sputnik?
A Soviet Satellite
A Nuclear Missle
Operation to take over Cuba
A secret radio station
6
What was the goal of Containment?
To maintain peace at all costs
To stop the spread of communism
To conqueror South East Asia
To remain isolationist
7
What is the message of this cartoon?
Firestorms will destroy the entire northern hemisphere if war breaks out
The fallout from Hiroshima will eventually engulf the entire planet
The world community needs to stop spreading nuclear weapons
8
The collective name for the countries creating a "buffer zone" for the Soviet Union?
Satellite Nations
Anti-Capitalist areas
Berlin Wall
Border deterant
9
What was the result of the Korean War?
There were no major battles
Korea remained divided
A major Russian victory
A major US victory
10
What started or prompted the Berlin Airlift?
The democratic elections of Western Berlin elect a communist causing riots
Eastern Germany invades
The USSR invades
Russia surrounded Berlin and cut off all food shipments
11
Which was the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Soviets sent Cuban refugees on an ill fated invasion of Miami
Kennedy was unable to prevent a Soviet strike against the Cuban people
Kennedy successfully negotiated with the Soviets and established a hotline
Soviet leaders effectively led a coup in Cuba installing a communist gov.
12
The Korean war began in 1950 when which country attacked South Korea?
The United States of America
The USSR/Russia
Communist China
North Korea
13
What did the Soviet Union build to keep out the influence of the West?
The Soviets did not want to keep the west out.
The Anti-Capitalism barrier
The Iron Curtain
The Berlin Wall
14
Leader of North Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Genghis Khan
Ho Chi Minh
JFK
15
If the spread of nuclear weapons was so controversial why did USA and USSR keep building nukes?
To increase their own capabilities as a deterent
To counter act the STAR WARS program of president Reagan
To share their arsenals with other countries in NATO or the Warsaw pact
To seek revenge for the nuclear strikes at Dresden and Pearl Harbor
16
Which two Communist spies were found guilty for passing Atomic Bomb information to the Soviet Union?
Stalin Leninsky
The Rosenburgs
Ronald Reagan
Ho Chi Minh

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