The Cold War and Nuclear Age

Senator Joseph McCarthy is responsible for

• Accusations against Americans related to the Red Scare

• Convinincing Kennedy to invade Cuba

• the fall of the Berlin Wall

• spying on the Soviet Union

What happened at the Bay of Pigs?

• the people of Cuba rise up and overthrow Fidel Castro

• a failed invasion by the United States and Cuban Rebels

• a Russian invasion of Cuba

• a nuclear reactor meltdown

Who won the Korean War?

• the North

• the South

• no one they signed a cease fire, still in effect today

• the Communists

The first satellite to orbit the Earth was called

• Sputnut

• Sputnik

• Yuri

• Norbit

The willingness to go right to the edge of war is called

• deterrance

• Brinksmanship

• Sputnik

• MAD

Who becomes president after Eisenhower?

• Harry Truman

• Lyndon Johnson

• Ronald Reagan

• JFK

The United States and the Soviet Union are great allies after WWII.

• True

• False

Who says, an "iron curtain has descended across Europe"

• FDR

• Mao Zedong

• Joseph Stalin

• Winston Churchill

Where is the dividing line or buffer zone in Korea between the North and South?

• the equator

• the iron curtain

• 38th parallel

• 138th parallel

Communist Leader in Cuba

• Mikael Gorbachev

• Fidel Castro

• Castille

  Fidel

• Krushchev