Cold War Part II Test

Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis "scare" Americans

• Communist Cuba was taking over American businesses

• The Bay of Pigs invasion almost failed

• Soviets were financing Cuba

• Cuba was within nuclear missile shooting range of American cities

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...

• helped the CIA break a Soviet spy ring

• supported Senator McCarthy in exposing communists

• were executed for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union

• Opposed the Soviet blockade of Berlin

How did Truman help the people of West Berlin?

• By airlifting supplies, such as fuel and food, into the city

• He didn't

• He sent American troops and tanks to break into the city

• He protested in the United Nations

The National Security Act established the...

• Center of Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

• Department of State

The US and the Soviet Union were stockpiling weapons in an effort to have more weapons than the other side. This was called...

• the Korean War

• the Manhattan Project

• the arms race

• disarmament talks

What happened at the Bay of Pigs?

• The Soviets attempted to install nuclear weapons in Haiti

• The Soviets invaded Hungary

• The US tried to overthrow the Cuban communist government

• A meeting in the Soviet Union to develop the Warsaw pact

Why is the Cuban Missile Crisis so important?

• It was the closest we have come to total nuclear war

• It was a signal to the world that Cuba was vulnerable

• It helped create NATO and the Warsaw Pact

• It created an alliance between the Cubans and the Americans

Who won the space race?

• The Soviet Union

• The United States

The Cold War was between the US and

• Korea

• China

• Germany

• The Soviet Union

What were the defining characteristics of the Cold War?

• Prohibition, Flappers, Jazz

• Arms Race, Space Race, Red Scare

• Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Pearl Harbor

• Poverty, Unemployment, Dust Bowl