Cold War

These 1969 discussions between the US and the USSR were designed to limit the number of nuclear weapons held by each country.

• SEATO (Southeast Asian Treaty Organization)

• SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

• SHART (Strategic Homeland Arms Reduction Treaty)

What was the response of the US when they discovered nuclear missile bases on the island of Cuba?

• All out invasion

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Nuclear Annihilation

• Naval Blockade of Cuba

What event started the tensions of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• The discovery of Soviet missile bases on Cuba

• Containment

• Fidel Castro becoming a communist leader

• The failed Bay of Pigs coup

Which of the following was an outcome of the Korean War?

• The establishment of an international alliance between China, USSR, & North Korea.

• South Korea had to economically support the economy of the North.

• The destruction of Seoul and the unification of the peninsula.

• The division of the country along the 38th parallel.

In 1950, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung invaded South Korea starting which war?

• WWII

• WWI

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

This individual was a major leader of the US Civil Rights Movement in the 50's and 60's.

• Louis Farrakhan

• Malcolm X

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Martin Luther

This is a policy of forced separation in education, jobs, housing, & voting that was enforced upon African Americans in the American South during the post-WWII years.

• Segregation

• Recession

• Suburbanization

• Globalization

An international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia against Soviet communism.

• NATO

• START

• SEATO

• SHIELD

Mutual-defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe created in response to NATO.

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Communist Bloc

• SALT

The U.S. strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and preventing further expansion.

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Red Scare

• NATO