3rd Nine Weeks Test Review

How did the GI Bill help to improve the American economy?

• It gave tax cuts to people who bought war bonds.

• It gave returning soldiers new jobs.

• It provided education benefits for returning soldiers.

• It granted soldiers free housing.

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred because....

• Cubans were fighting for independence from Spain

• the Soviet Union sent nuclear weapons to Cuba

• The US was sending air shipments to Cuban rebels

• the Soviet Union was trying to invade Cuba

The United States responded to the Cuban Missile Crisis by...

• using a naval blockade to stop the shipment of missiles to Cuba

• Asking NATO to intervene on the US's behalf

• Sending missiles to Turkey

• arming Cuban rebels to fight Castro

World War 2 occurred between....

• 1914-1918

• 1920-1924

• 1920-1929

• 1939-1945

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall were important figures in the....

• Temperance Movement

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Civil Rights Movement

• Chicano Rights Movement

The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were ratified during which era?

• Civil Rights Era

• Civil War Era

• Reconstruction Era

• Progressive Era

In order to reduce communist influence in Europe, Truman created a policy of...

• imperialism

• containment

• subversion

• neutrality

How did the US and Western European countries respond to the Soviet blockade of Berlin?

• they airdropped pamphlets explaining how to get supplies from allied countries

• by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied air bases in western Germany

• By threatening the Soviets with NATO forces

• they forced the Soviets to negotiate a treaty

What was the name given to the fear that if one Asian country fell to communism, others would follow?

• McCarthyism

• Domino Theory

• Containment

• Eugenics

The US helped South Korean forces fight the North Korean forces in order to....

• avoid future conflicts in Asia

• force China to adopt democracy

• gain access to valuable resources and trade routes

• contain the spread of communism in Asia