Foreign Conflicts Quiz

Which event sparked America's involvement in World War I?

• sinking of Lusitania
• US embassy was taken captive
• North Korea  invaded South Korea
• bombing of Pearl Harbor

The United States joined the Allies in this conflict after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

• World War II

• World War I

• Gulf War I

• Gulf War II

After WWII the United States got involved in many foreign conflicts to prevent the spread of ________________.

• Spanish Flu

• Democracy

• Communism

• Malaria

Germany surrendered in May of 1945, but Americans troops were still fighting Japanese forces in the Pacific. How did the U.S. force Japan to surrender and finally end WWII?

• The Treaty of Versailles

• The dropping of Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The invasion of Iraq

• Threatening to invade Tokyo

The Cold War was a conflict between which two countries?

• Cuba and the Soviet Union

• Germany and the United States

• United States and the Soviet Union

• Vietnam and the United States

This International Organization was created after WWII to try and promote World Peace.

• UN (United Nations)

• NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)

• Red Cross/Red Crescent

• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Why did the United States send troops to South Korea in 1950?

• To help victims of WWII

• To defeat South Korea

• The U.S. has never sent troops to South Korea

• To try and stop the spread of communism from North Korea

Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban government in order to establish this form government.

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Representative Democracy

• Communist Dictatorship

The failed Bay of Pigs Invasion ordered by John F. Kennedy occurred in which country?

• Cuba

• Japan

• Soviet Union

• Iraq

This country secretly built nuclear missile bases in Cuba.

• Germany

• Soviet Union

• Japan

• Russia