M21L5 - Mounting Tensions in the Sixties

M21L5 - Mounting Tensions in the Sixties

11th Grade

10 Qs

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M21L5 - Mounting Tensions in the Sixties

M21L5 - Mounting Tensions in the Sixties

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11th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 10 pts

What was "flexible response?"

Treaty that barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere

Direct phone line between the White House and the Kremlin

President Kennedy's policy of using nonnuclear weapons to fight a war

Theory that one country falling to Communist influence would

quickly lead to other countries in the same area falling, too

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 10 pts

Theory that one country falling to Communist influence would

quickly lead to other countries in the same area falling, too

domino theory

flexible response

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

containment

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 10 pts

President Kennedy's Vice-President:

Jimmy Carter

Adlai Stevenson

Richard Nixon

Lyndon B. Johnson

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 10 pts

Seized power in Cuba in 1959.

José Miró Cardona

Nikita Khruschev

Fidel Castro

Fulgencio Batista

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 10 pts

Kennedy's approved plan that called for Cuban exiles to invade Cuba

and overthrow Fidel Castro.

flexible response

Operation Torch

Cuban Missile Crisis

Bay of Pigs

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 10 pts

What action did Kennedy take that started the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Ordered missile strike on Havana

Moved nuclear missiles closer to USSR

He drew a funny cartoon that made fun of Castro

Surrounded Cuba

with U.S. Navy ships

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 10 pts

Why did Khrushchev order construction of the Berlin Wall?

In response to the Bay of Pigs invasion.

To prevent East Germans

from fleeing to West Berlin.

To prevent Russians

from fleeing to West Berlin.

The Iron Curtain was getting old so they needed a proper wall.

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