Cold War Quiz - JFK, LBJ

What wars were fought during the Cold War as a result of containment and the Domino Theory?

• Korean & Vietnam War

• WWI & WWII

• Civil War & Spanish American War

• Persian Gulf & War on Terror

What policy implemented in the Cold War said the U.S. would give military aid to a country that needed to resist communism?

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Domino Theory

• Open Door Policy

Johnson's domestic program was called

• New Deal
• Square Deal
• Awesome Society
• Great Society

What was the purpose of LBJ's Great Society?

• end poverty
• end drug trafficking
• end lynching
• fix the economy

Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis:

• Lech Walesa

• Mikhael Gorbachev

• Nikita Khruschev

• Leonid Brezhnev

What was the main reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall?

• To blockade Berlin from obtaining supplies

• To stop East Germans from fleeing West Berlin

• To stop communism from spreading

• To anger the United States

Kennedy's most obvious foreign policy disaster....

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

What was JFK's response to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Naval blockade of Cuba [quarantine]

• invade Cuba

• bomb U.S.S.R.

• attack Vietnam

Led a revolution in Cuba in 1959 to overthrow brutal Batista dictatorship-Became a pro Soviet Communist Nation

• Barry Goldwater

• Lyndon B Johnson

• Joseph Mcarthy

• Fidel Castro

Plan to overthrow Castro which became an embarrassment for Kennedy when our CIA Operatives were captured by Fidel Castro's government

• Bay of Pigs

• NASA

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cuban Blockade