M21L5 - Mounting Tensions in the Sixties

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

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

President Kennedy's Vice-President:

• Jimmy Carter

• Adlai Stevenson

• Richard Nixon

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Seized power in Cuba in 1959.

• José Miró Cardona

• Nikita Khruschev

• Fidel Castro

• Fulgencio Batista

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

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

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.

What was the purpose of the "hot line?"

• So American generals could more quickly communicate.

• It's still classified to this day.

• So American spies could speak directly to Kennedy.

• So Kennedy and Khrushchev could speak directly to avoid disaster.

Nuclear Non-

Proliferation Treaty.

• Nuclear powers

  agreed not to sell or give nuclear

  weapons to any other country. Non-

  nuclear powers promised not to acquire

  such weapons.

• Nuclear powers agreed to sell secrets to highest bidders.

• Did not include the USSR.

• Only banned the largest nuclear bombs.

The Soviets got a satellite and a person into space first.

• True

• False