Eisenhower

Which president made good on his promise to end the Korean War?

• President Truman
• President MacArthur
• President Eisenhower
• President Marshall

Which president chose not to run for re-election in 1952 because he had little support?

• President Truman
• President Eisenhower
• President MacArthur
• President Nixon

The Republicans chose this man for their candidate in the 1952 election.

• Adlai Stevenson
• Douglas MacArthur
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Harry Truman

The offer of military aid to any Middle Eastern country resisting communism was known as the

• Marshall Plan.
• Eisenhower Doctrine.
• Truman Doctrine.
• Baruch Plan.

The world was pushed to the "brink" of war in the 1955-6

• Suez Crisis.
• Hungarian uprising.
• Polish reform.
• Arab-Israeli War.

This was established to gather strategic military and political information from overseas.

• FBI
• National Defense Administration
• National Security Council
• CIA

In 1959, the US and Soviet Union agreed to meet in 1960 to discuss arms reduction but it was canceled because of

• the Red Scare.
• Sputnik.
• U-2 incident.
• Space Race.

Sputnik in 1957 and the Explorer I in 1958 were the first satellites in space launched by which countries respectively?

• US; Soviet Union
• China; Soviet Union
• Soviet Union; Great Britain
• Soviet Union; US

Eisenhower's Secretary of State believed in this policy dealing with communist aggression.

• Dulles; Brinkmanship
• Marshall; Marshall Plan
• Dulles; Containment
• Marshall; Brinkmanship

This leader took over the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.

• Lenin
• Khrushchev
• Gorbachev
• Trotsky