Cold War (B)
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- Q1Since World War II, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States have been marked byreliance on international peace organizations to solve disputesconflicts where the superpowers supported opposing sides, but did not confront each other directlyrefusal to negotiate on any issuesslow but steady decreases in military forces and armaments30s
- Q2"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid...." --Harry Truman The recommendation made in this quotation resulted from the United States need tojustify the withdrawal of United States forces from Koreaprepare for World War Ioppose communist expansion during the early post-World War II periodfight Nazi aggression in 194145s
- Q3The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to provide Europe withdefense military weaponseconomic aidpolitical alliancescultural exchange programs45s
- Q4The "domino theory", popular in the 1950's and 1960's, assumed the expansion ofSouth African apartheid into African nationsSoviet influence into Chinatotalitarianism throughout Latin Americacommunism into Southeast Asia45s
- Q5When President Dwight D. Eisenhower said "If you knock down the first of a row of dominoes, all the others will fall in quick order," he was expressing a view that led toless restrictive immigration policies toward Africa and Latin Americathe end of colonialism in Africastronger support for United States involvement in Southeast Asiadecreased foreign aid to Western Europe45s
- Q6The United States began a trade embargo against Cuba in the 1960s toencourage political change in Cubaend the domination of the banana industry by Cubamotivate Cubans to immigrate to the United Statespromote domestic industries in Cuba45s
- Q7Base your answer to the following question on the newspaper article below and on your knowledge of social studies. President Kennedy responded to warnings like this byasking Congress to fund the Hubble telescopejoining the Soviet Union in building a space stationpledging to put a man on the Moon within a decadepromising to explore Mars and other nearby planets45s
- Q8Immediately after World War II, a main cause of the development of the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union wasthe placing of missiles in Cuba by the Soviet UnionSoviet dominance over Eastern European nationsUnited States military actions in the Baltic SeaSoviet desire to enter the war against Japan in 194545s
- Q9Which statement about the Cuban missile crisis (1962) is most accurate?The Communist government in Cuba was overthrown.The crisis brought the two major world powers very close to war.The crisis showed that the United States and the Soviet Union could agree on total disarmament.The United States wanted to establish missile sites in Cuban territory.45s
- Q10The term "McCarthyism" has come to symbolizeattempts to encourage totalitarian dictatorshipsthe protection of the constitutional rights of accused personsintegration in public educationunfounded accusations of disloyalty and a climate of fear45s
- Q11The Red Scare and McCarthyism were similar in that bothsupported United States foreign aid programspromoted economic developmentadvocated the development of the arts and sciencesencouraged nativist ideas45s
- Q12President John F. Kennedy's most significant foreign policy failure involved theinvasion at the Bay of Pigs in Cubasending of troops to Berlinsigning of a nuclear test-ban treatydevelopment of the Peace Corps45s
- Q13President John F. Kennedy attempted to deal with the situation shown on the map bylanding an invasion force on the Cuban mainlandbombing all the missile sites simultaneouslyimposing a naval blockade to isolate Cuba from the Soviet Unionallowing the Soviet Union to keep some missiles in Cuba if the remainder were removed45s
- Q14For the United States, one similarity between the Korean War and the Vietnam war is that during both warsPresidential wartime powers were expandedthe domestic economy was not a affected by the costs of supporting the warsthere was little public controversy concerning United States participation in the warsUnited States forces successfully contained communist expansion45s
- Q15Which statement about the United States involvement in the Vietnam War is accurate?It was due exclusively to the actions of President Lyndon Johnson's administration.It was based on the Open Door Policy.It came about only after a formal declaration of war.It reflected the belief in containment that followed World War II.45s
