Cold War Quiz II - WH S2 2022

Who assassinated JFK according to police and the Warren Commission?

• The mafia

• Fidel Castro

• Lee Harvey Oswald

• Nikita Khrushchev

Which event was a CIA-sponsored invasion that failed miserably?

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Alliance for Progress
• Bay of Pigs
• Marshall Plan

The goal of the Bay of Pigs incident was

• Overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev
• Removal of nuclear missile sites
• Protection of communism in Europe
• Overthrow of Fidel Castro

Which was NOT a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Removal of missiles from Cuba & Turkey
• Treaty agreeing to reduce nuclear capacities
• U.S. promise to not invade Cuba
• Establish a hotline between U.S. & U.S.S.R.

Who was the leader of North Vietnam during the war?

• Ho Chi Minh

• Ngo Dinh Diem

• William C. Westmoreland

• Bien Denh Phu

What was the United States' bombing campaign of North Vietnam called?

• Operation Agent Orange
• Operation Napalm
• Operation Rolling Thunder
• Operation Hurricane

The idea that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations would soon follow was known as

• Vietnamization

• Subversion

• Domino Theory

• Detente

The Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed by Congress

• allowed the United States to invade Saigon.

• authorized President Johnson to take any measure needed to repel attacks on U. S. forces.

• called for both U. S. and North Vietnamese forces to withdraw from South Vietnam.

• condemned U. S. aggression against the people of Vietnam.

Which U.S. president escalated the conflict in Vietnam by sending in the first ground troops in 1964?

• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Richard M. Nixon

What countries helped North Vietnam during the war?

• US and Russia

• Canada and the Soviet union

• China and Spain

• Chinese and the Soviet Union