Unit 8

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution increased US activity in...

• Vietnam

• Cambodia

• Egypt

The so-called "Truman Doctrine" was specifically designed to aid

• states trying to integrate public schools

• the rebuilding of Japan

• countries trying to resist the spread of Communism

The original purpose of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was to

• provide for a defense pact against possible Soviet aggression.

• form a 10-year plan for the economic recovery of Western Europe

• create free trade between all nations

Which word BEST describes the U.S. policy towards communism in the 1950s and 1960s

• appeasement

• containment

• elimination

Which group was created during the Cold War to unify all of the member countries against communist aggression?

• warsaw pact

• un

• league of nations

• NATO

The decision in Brown v. Board of Education addressed the issue of

• segregation

• voting rights

• affirmative action

The primary purpose of the Marshall Plan was to

• aid the economic recovery of war-torn Europe.

• stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia.

• end the rift between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The 1960 presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy illustrated the

• importance of having a free and independent press.

• power of television’s influence in American politics.

• divisive nature of the war in Vietnam.

In the early 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy earned national attention by

• almost winning multiple Presidential elections.

• falsely accusing many people of being communists.

• supporting national desegregation efforts

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 came to an end when

• the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its nuclear missiles from Cuba.

• CIA-backed rebels were defeated by the Cuban army at the Bay of Pigs.