Cold War Test Review - JFK and the Vietnam War

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union when JFK was president?

• Joe Stalin

• Leon Trotsky

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Nikita Khrushchev

Fidel Castro became became the leader of what country in 1959?

• Guatemala

• Haiti

• Cuba

• Chile

Which of the following actions by Castro alarmed the CIA and President Eisenhower?

• he nationalized all industry

• he redistributed land to peasants

• he had wealthy Cubans arrested and exiled

• all of the above

• none of the above

What was the name of the beach that the exile army was supposed to land in Cuba

• The Bay of Seals

• The Bay of Pigs

• Los Alamos

• Guantanamo Bay

Which of the following was a result of the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

• the failure of the invasion made Castro look like a hero to his people

• the invasion failed, but the Cuban people later overthrew Castro because they feared an American invasion was coming next

• the Soviets openly threatened to attack West Berlin if the US tried to invade Cuba again

• all of the above

Khrushchev met with JFK in June 1961 and demanded that the U.S. withdraw from

• Cuba

• West Berlin

• South Korea

• Hungary

When JFK refused to leave West Berlin, Khrushchev responded by

• building the Berlin Wall

• creating the Berlin Blockade

• invading West Berlin

• doing nothing

What did an American U-2 Spy plane discover in Cuba in October 1962?

• Smersh assassins

• Soviet Special forces

• Soviet made offensive nuclear missiles

• Chinese weapons

Which of the following describes the attitude of the U.S. military during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• they wanted to invade Cuba

• they wanted to avoid war

• they wanted JFK to compromise

JFK took what action after discovering the Soviet nuclear missiles?

• he invaded Cuba

• He invaded East Berlin

• He ordered an air strike

• He set up a naval quarantine of Cuba