Dudley SSUSH21

This was the time period where countries such as the USA and the USSR were building up their nuclear weapons supply out of fear

• Cold War

• World War I

• Heat Wave

• Great Depression

Which event was a CIA-sponsored invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro that failed miserably?

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Alliance for Progress
• Bay of Pigs
• Marshall Plan

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

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• James Gregory

How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being constructed in Cuba?

• from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers

• from US spy satellites

• from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions

• the British intercepted the telegram which outlined the nuclear missile project in Cuba

• from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane

An attempt by the Soviet Union in 1962 to place nuclear missiles in Cuba directed toward the United States.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Airlift

• Detente

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War, which could be best described as

• direct military engagement.

• peaceful co-existence

• an "Iron Curtain" that descended across the European continent

• engagement through proxy states such as Korea, Vietnam, & Cuba and an ideological struggle between capitalism & communism

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution...

• placed limits on U.S. involvement in Vietnam

• authorized secret commando raids against North Vietnamese targets

• provided President Johnson with broad authority to escalate the war in Vietnam

• passed unanimously in the U.S. Senate

According to the history of the Tonkin Gulf incident by the U.S. Naval Institute, high government officials...

• misled the American public about the naval clash that took place?

• had a clear understanding of what occurred off the coast of North Vietnam on August 4, 1964

• ordered naval commanders to make every attempt to avoid provoking the North Vietnamese

• had forbidden covert intelligence-gathering missions against communist North Vietnam

Knock over one country and their neighbors would fall as well....this is known as the ______________________.

• Monopoly Policy

• Payday Motion

• Jenga Theory

• Domino Theory

The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for southern blacks to exercise their right for suffrage

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• 22nd Amendment