Unit 12 - Cold War

Purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to provide

• Rights of freedom of speech & the press to Greece & Turkey
• economic & military support to stop the spread of communism
• humanitarian aid to starving people in Ethiopia and Sudan
• military troops to end ethnic warfare in former Yugoslavia

During the 1960s & 1970s, primary reason for United States involvement in Southeast Asia was to

• Look for new colonies
• gain new markets for exports
• stop the spread of communism
• search for new sources of oil

United States and the Soviet Union became rivals after World War II because

• United States threatened to invade Soviet satellite states
• Soviet Union began developing nuclear weapons
• Communists and Western capitalists distrusted each other
• the Marshall Plan failed to rebuild war-torn Europe

The United States sent troops to Vietnam to

• gain the support of the American public
• stop North Vietnam from controlling (invading) the south.
• drive the French out of Vietnam
• stop South Vietnam from controlling (invading) the north.

United States considered Cuba a threat because

• the Cuban government had been overthrown and was unstable
• Cuba, which was 90 miles away, had ties with the Soviets
• Castro and Kennedy did not trust each other
• Cuban exiles informed US government about missiles in Cuba

US government believed that if they lost South Vietnam to communism,

• US citizens would turn against war
• other Asian countries would come to the aid of South Vietnam
• other Asian countries would also fall to communism
• North Vietnam would become communist too

Cuban leader who embraced communism and gained support of Soviet Union.

• Fidel Castro
• Saddam Hussein
• Hugo Chavez
• Che Guevarra

Plan to keep communism within its existing boundaries

• Containment
• Domino Theory
• Deterence
• Arms Race

Which of the following best explains a result of the Space Race?

• The United States had the first moon landing in 1969.

• The Soviet Union sent the first satellite into space in 1957, winning the Space Race.

• The Soviet Union sent the first man into space. His name was Yuri Gargarin.

• All of the above

A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

• Cold War

• Hot War

• Korean War

• Vietnam War