Exit Ticket: Cold War

Which president officially sent the first conscripted American soldiers to Vietnam?

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Harry Truman

• Richard Nixon

In a speech by ​ (a)   , the borders set up by ​ (b)   mimicked an ​ (c)   around Eastern Europe

• Winston Churchill
• Soviet Russia
• Iron Curtain
• FDR
• Harry Truman
• Nazi Germany
• East Berlin
• Impenetrable Door
• Indestructible Wall

A deterrent...

• keeps the status quo during a "hot war"

• Represents a "cooling down" of aggressive tensions

• is designed to limit aggression in the fear of nuclear threats

• kept Switzerland from fighting in WW2

Match these presidents to their political actions:

• The Great Society

• Harry Truman

• HUAC

• Richard Nixon

• "Vietnamization"

• Eisenhower

• Truman Doctrine

• Joseph McCarthy

• Interstate Highway Act

• Lyndon B. Johnson

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did this...

• made it legal for African Americans to vote in the south

• outlawed the practice of public segregation

• abolished the poll tax

• made it legal for any woman of color to vote in the USA

What did the policy of containment do?

• Stop the spread of communism

• Take away the USSR's power in the UN

• Destroy communism at the source

• attempt to overturn Communism before it spreads