Kennedy and Johnson (Cold War Continues)

Question 1

Put these events in chronological order

Accepted Answer

C A B

Question 2

Who was the United States President during the "Cuban Missile Crisis" ?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

Question 3

The US policy of "containing" the spread of communist aggression into other countries.

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Truman Doctrine

Question 4

What was the purpose of the US "Cold War" policy of "Massive Retaliation"?

Accepted Answer

to deter nuclear attack by the Soviet Union

Question 5

The Supreme Court case: Gideon v. Wainwright dealt with which constitutional principle?

Accepted Answer

The right to counsel

Question 6

What event ultimately ended the "Cold War"?

Accepted Answer

the collapse of the Soviet Union

Question 7

Which event did NOT relate to the communist "Red Scare" in America after World War II?

Accepted Answer

creation of the United Nations

Question 8

What happened to Germany after World War II?

Accepted Answer

divided into west and east, made to pay war reparations

Question 9

Which US president is most closely associated with the policy of "massive retaliation"?

Accepted Answer

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 10

What event forced Lyndon Johnson to take the oath of office aboard Air Force One Nov 22, 1963

Accepted Answer

the assassination of President Kennedy

Question 11

Which nation(s) occupied West Germany following World War II ?

Accepted Answer

USA, Great Britain, France

Question 12

Which President escalated the war in Vietnam by sending more troops and implementing a mandatory draft.

Accepted Answer

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 13

Which action did President Kennedy take after receiving the following intelligence?

Accepted Answer

Ordering a naval blockade of Cuba

Question 14

A defensive alliance of the US and European allies to prevent a USSR invasion of WesternEurope

Accepted Answer

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Question 15

How successful was President Johnson's "War on Poverty"?

Accepted Answer

It created affordable housing, It gave federal grants to college students, It reduced poverty to 14%, It merely was credited for an already present trend in reduction poverty

Question 16

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy led to -

Accepted Answer

internal conflict over military involvement in Vietnam

Question 17

Which country built missile sites in Cuba in 1962 causing a crisis with the United States?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 18

The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt to -

Accepted Answer

overthrow Castro and Cuba's communist government

Question 19

An alliance of communist countries such as the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, and Romania

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 20

Which war was the first fought by the US in an effort to contain communism?

Accepted Answer

Korean War

Question 21

Why did the Soviet Union build the Berlin Wall in 1961?

Accepted Answer

to prevent East Germans from moving west

Question 22

How did the Korean War end?

Accepted Answer

a "stalemate" South = democratic & North = communist

Question 23

This passage resulted from which Supreme Court decision?

Accepted Answer

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)Next

Question 24

During Kennedy's inaugural address, to what county is this quote directed ?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 25

What simmilarities did Presiden Johnson’s Great Society programs have with Roosevelt’s New Deal?

Accepted Answer

Both supported the expansion of social welfare programs

Question 26

What was Senator Joseph McCarthy's action that further intensified the "Red Scare"?

Accepted Answer

accused members of the US government of being communist

Question 27

Name the group formed at the end of WWII in an effort to prevent future world wars?

Accepted Answer

United Nations

Question 28

What was President Kennedy refering to when he made the following statement?

Accepted Answer

Voluntering for the Peace Corp

Question 29

What was the US effort to rebuild the economies of Europe after World War II

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

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