History of the World Final

What war was the US involved in in the early 1950's to stop the spread of Communism?

• WW1

• WW2

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

What war was the US involved in in the 1960's that was escalated by the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?

• WW1

• WW2

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

The nickname given to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)... the defense against nuclear missiles.

• Stargate SG 1

• Star Wars

• Iron Curtain

• Space Race

When did Israel become a nation?

• 1948

• 1776

• It has always been a nation

• It is not a nation

The first female British Prime Minister.

• Margaret Thatcher

• Anne Frank

• Esther Queen

• Diana Prince

This almost resulted in all-out nuclear war.

• Bay of Pigs

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Pearl Harbor

True or False: Chiang Kai-shek was leader of the Nationalist (capitalist) forces in China.

• True

• False

What is a war fought not with military weapons but with words and diplomacy?

• Boring War

• Cold War

• Hot War

• Civil War

True or False: The Truman Doctrine stated that the US would do all it could to stop the spread of Communism.

• True

• False

The World's first man-made satellite in space.

• Sputnik 1

• Apollo 1

• Saturn 1

• Kremlin 1