SSUSH 20 and SSUSH 21 Cold War and Civil Rights

Why did President Kennedy approve the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles supported by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1961?

• Castro had formed an anti-United States alliance with Venezuela and Nicaragua.

• Castro had developed close economic and political ties to the Soviet Union.

• Castro has cut off all Cuban trade with the United States.

• Castro had released political prisoners into the United States, many of whom were criminals.

United States involvement in the Korean War was part of its policy of

• containment.

• isolationism.

• Big Stock diplomacy.

• mutual assured destruction.

The successful launch of the Sputnik satellite by the Soviet Union on 1957 led to

• the creation of an effective space-based missile defense system.

• the discovery of the effects of low gravity on nuclear weapons.

• a major effect by the United States to improve math and science education.

• the defeat of Richard M. Nixon by John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election.

What was the origin of the U.S. containment policy during the second half of the 1900s?

• the expansion of European colonization in Latin America

• the revival of fascism and Nazism in Western Europe

• conflicts between the United States and Arab nations over the creation of Israel

• competition between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II

Which geographical factor most affected how the United States applied its containment policy during the Cold War?

• the physical location of communist regimes

• the territorial size of European colonies in the Americas

• the natural resources available to Japanese factories in the Pacific Islands

• the population density of the nation suspected of sponsoring terrorist groups

The change in governments in China and in North Korea after World War II concerned many Americans because

• the new governments were communists.

• those countries were allied with Germany.

• they were no longer solid trading partners.

• it threatened to end the U.S.'s Marshall Plan.

Which of the following was LEAST LIKELY to have resulted from the ¨baby boom¨ in the United States following World War II?

• greater quantities of consumer goods were produced

• an increase in the number of public schools

• the beginning of racial desegregation

• an increase in housing construction

What action did the United States take when the Soviet Union blocked road, rail, and canal transportation routes to West Berlin in 1948?

• It transported supplies to the city by airlift.

• It built a wall around the city.

• It sent tanks and troops to free the city.

• It negotiated a new treaty with the Soviets.

Increased automobile use in the 1950s motivated President Dwight Eisenhower to create

• a standardized driving test.

• a fuel emissions standard.

• automobile safety standards.

• the interstate highway system.

During the Korean War, the United Nations forces led by the United States succeeded in achieving their primary goal of

• ending Communist rule in North Korea.

• preventing South Korea from annexing North Korea.

• preserving an anti-communist government in South Korea.

• freeing Korea from Japanese control.