USH Cold War Abroad Bootcamp Review Quiz

Which U.S. action is Khrushchev challenging in this excerpt?

• Preventing Soviet advisors from meeting with revolutionaries in South America

• Establishing a naval blockade to stop the shipment of missiles to Cuba

• Enforcing a ban on military aid to communist forces in North Vietnam

• Conducting air shipments of vital supplies to East Berlin

This is a cross-sectional diagram of a major operation ordered by President Harry S. Truman in 1948. Why was this operation undertaken?

• To enable a rapid withdrawal of troops from a war-torn city

• To deploy substantial invasion forces

• To provide supplies to a blockaded city

• To rescue thousands of stranded political refugees

The event described in this headline resulted in -

• Decreased federal funding of student loans

• Increased support for the antiwar movement

• The reinstatement of the draft

• An end to federal investigations of student organizations

This amendment gained support based on the belief that people should have the right to vote if they are old enough to -

• Drive motorized vehicles

• Drive motorized vehicles

• Pay federal income taxes

• Be drafted into the military

Which policy guided U.S. opposition to this declaration?

• Containment

• Peaceful coexistence

• Constructive engagement

• Deterrence

Which policy guided U.S. opposition to this declaration?

• Rebuild the economics of devastated European nations

• Encourage Soviet withdrawal from the United Nations

• Create disagreements between western European nations

• Guarantee American factories a supply of cheap raw materials

In World War II, the US was allied with the Soviet Union, but that alliance became a rivalry after the war. Which statement explains the change?

• In World War II, the US was allied with the Soviet Union, but that alliance became a rivalry after the war. Which statement explains the change?

• Alliances only tend to last as long as nations see a mutual self-interest

• The Soviet Union stood in the way of US territorial expansion C. Alliances onl

• Historically, alliances made by countries with differing economic systems seldom last more than a few years

What was the main goal of the United States containment policy?

• To become more technologically advanced than the Soviet Union

• To prevent the spread of Communism around the world

• To provide more support for science and math educatio

• To support the establishment of the Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe

As a result of the Berlin Airlift, the United States was able to -

• Bypass a Soviet blockade without provoking a military conflict

• Transport Polish refugees to safety

• Prevent the Nazi Party from reorganizing

• Intimidate Soviet leaders by demonstrating superior military power

The Cold War was primarily a result of -

• The limitations of the League of Nations

• The tension between communism and capitalism

• The competition between established nations and new colonies

• The refusal of the United States to send economic aid to Japan