Quarter 3 Test/Early Cold War

Which of these was an effect that rock and roll had on society in the US in the 1950s?

• It contributed to a separation of cultures between the generations

• It increased the fear of communism

• It encouraged the Harlem Renaissance

• It will encourage more people to buy radios

President Kennedy created the Peace Corps in the 1960s to

• contain communism by helping developing countries

• fight rebels in democratic nations with military force

• overthrow Soviet control in Eastern Europe

• rebuild Unites States cities through urban renewal

With Vietnam as an example, there was a fear that if one nation in a region fell to communism its neighbors would as well. This is called the

• Compartment syndrome

• Chain of capitulation

• Slippery slope

• Domino theory

Showing Nixon was involved in the cover up of the Watergate break in, the Oval Office Tapes are referred to as...

• the last straw

• the fingerprints on the glass

• the ironclad alibi

• the smoking gun

Which action best explains the differences shown in these photographs?

• The US gave economic assistance through the Marshall Plan

• The US and the USSR created an alliance after WWII

• US leaders created the United Nations

• The USSR established the " Iron Curtain" after WWII

The launch of Sputnik I intensified Cold War tensions and caused the ____

• US to increase spending on math and science education to compete in the space race

• USSR to move missiles and warships to Cuba in order to threaten the US

• US to send troops to East Berlin to free it from Soviet control

• USSR to threaten Europe with nuclear attack if Soviet airspace were violated

Which statement correctly completes the timeline?

• The Allied powers divide Germany and Berlin into four sectors

• German citizens vote to reunite East and West Germany

• The US and Great Britain airlift supplies to West Berlin

• The United Nations sends troops into Eastern Europe

In this excerpt, McCarthy is attempting to incite fear about _ _

• Japanese Americans confined in internment camps

• organizers of the Civil Rights movement

• accomplices in the Watergate scandal

• members of the Communist Party in government positions

Expanding education and economic opportunities was central to the Great Society from which president?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Richard M. Nixon

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

The point of the War Powers Act was to...

• limit the president's ability to initiate or escalate military actions abroad.

• allow the president to use the military more effectively overseas.

• give the military more autonomy conducting operations in foreign nations.

• turn over control of the military to congress.