Domain 5: Cold War & Modern America

Which U.S. foreign policy term BEST completes this diagram?

• Imperialism

• Appeasement

• Isolationism

• Containment

The Truman Doctrine stated that

• The US would not tolerate Communists in high levels of US government

• The US would not hesitate to intervene to help foreign nations resist communism

• The US would not cross the 38th parallel during the Korean War.

• The US would support Mao’s revolution in China.

Which of the following was meant to rebuild parts of Europe suffering economic hardship in an effort to prevent the spread of communism?

• The Marshall Plan

• Containment Policy

• Cold warfare

• The Space Race

What was the result of the Korean War?

• The US and South Korea failed to contain Communism because all of Korea became communist.

• There was little gained and lost with North Korea remaining Communist and South Korea Democratic.

• Kim Jong Il and North Korea took over all of South Korea, but quickly lost it.

• South Korea and the United States took over communist North Korea and brought democracy throughout all of Korea.

The purpose of Senator Joe McCarthy's investigations (that turned into a witch-hunt) was to...

• get the US involved in the Korean War

• return the US to a policy of neutrality after WW2

• root out Communist sympathizers in government

• get an interstate highway system built in the US

What contribution did President Harry Truman make to the civil rights efforts in 1948?

• He passed an executive order integrating the military

• He forced the Supreme Court to take the case that would result in Brown vs. Board of Education

• He refused to allow Black soldiers to fight in the Korean War

• He encouraged Black college students to use non-violent tactics to work for civil rights

What was the purpose of the Interstate Highway and Defense Act passed in 1956 under President Eisenhower?

• It built interstates in Europe to move men and weapons quickly into place in case of a Soviet attack.

• It was a mutual defense pact signed between several European and American nations

• It built several airports and shipping ports in major American cities.

• It built the interstate highways to provide rapid transport of people and military vehicles.

Choose 4: What are some of the strategies and tactics used in the Civil Rights Movement?

• protesting/marches

• boycotts

• bombing property of segregationists

• March on Washington

• Civil Rights legislation

Which event completes the sequence of events?

• US spy plane photos show Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba

• Fidel Castro is overthrown from power and killed

• The Soviet Union launches the Sputnik satellite

• The Soviet Union attacks West Berlin

Which event during the Vietnam War led to an increase in anti-war protests and sentiments in America?

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Tet Offensive

• The launch of Sputnik

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion