Cold War Part II Test

This is a type of government where the government has complete control of the country. 

• Communism
• Socialism
• Democracy
• Government

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

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• James Gregory

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhal Gorbachav

• Fidel Castro

• Sergei Fedorov

Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Edwardo Obstinado

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which of the following was a failed invasion of Cuban exiles in 1961 that made the Kennedy administration look incompetent?

• D-Day

• the Bay of Pigs

• the Cuban Missile Crisis

• the Gulf of Tonkin incident

What policy did the Kennedy administration take that allowed more military options in the event of an international crisis?

• flexible response

• the building of the Berlin Wall

• brinkmanship

• detente

What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

• to keep people inside West Berlin

• to keep people in East Berlin from leaving to go to the West

• to keep people from West Berlin from leaving to go the East

• to keep United Nations troops from firing on troops from East Germany

What was the name of the program of volunteer assistance to Asia, Africa, and Latin America that was started in 1961? (and still continues today)

• the Peace Corps

• the Jobs Corps

• the Economic Opportunity Act

• the Alliance for Progress

Who said “ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country?”

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John F. Kennedy

What was the name of Kennedy’s legislative agenda?

• the New Frontier

• the Peace Corps

• the Great Society

• the Fair Deal