JFK presidency during the Cold War

WHAT STARTED THE SPACE RACE ?

• SOVIET UNION LAUNCHED SPUTNIK I

• UNITED STATES ESTABLISHED NASA

• THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE APOLLO PROGRAM

• 1ST FEMALE COSMONAUT LAUNCHED INTO SPACE

Which of the following is evidence for the US winning the space race?

• US LAUNCHED THEIR OWN SATELLITE

• USSR LAUNCHED A FEMALE ASTRONAUT INTO SPACE

• NEIL ARMSTRONG TOOK THE FIRST STEPS ON THE MOON

• JOHN GLENN ORBITED THE EARTH

WHICH PRESIDENT WAS COMMITTED TO SENDING A MAN TO THE MOON ?

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Joseph Stalin

_{The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.}

• World War I

• Worl War II

• Cold War

• Civil War

What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?

• US attempt to overthrow Cuba's new Communist government

• USSR attempt to overthrow Turkey's new Capitalist system

• US attempt to kill Fidel Castro

• USSR attempt to stockpile missiles near the US

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Leon Trotsky

• Vladmir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

Who was the leader of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• Harry S. Truman

Why did the USSR want to put missiles on Cuba?

• To have more missiles because they couldn't match the nuclear power of the US

• To counter the Warsaw Pact countries that were overthrowing communism

• To counter the US missiles in Italy and Turkey

• To counter the power of NATO

Why didn't Kennedy want to attack Cuba once the missiles were discovered?

• fear of war

• fear of communism in the US

• fear of putting European allies in danger

• fear of losing re-election

What is containment?

• U.S. foreign policy of threatening to use all out military aggression against enemy

• The purchasing of material goods

• Designing of products to wear out or become outdated so consumers need to buy more

• U.S. foreign policy of blocking spread of communism to other nations by the Soviets