Quarter 4 EoC Exam Review

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...

• helped the CIA break a Soviet spy ring

• supported Senator McCarthy in exposing communists

• were executed for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union

• Opposed the Soviet blockade of Berlin

How did Truman help the people of West Berlin?

• By airlifting supplies, such as fuel and food, into the city

• He didn't

• He sent American troops and tanks to break into the city

• He protested in the United Nations

Which foreign policy sought to prevent a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and USSR?

• The Domino Theory

• The Marshall Plan

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Strategic defensive initiative

What major event was a blow to Truman's containment policy?

• Vietnam War

• China becoming Communist in 1949

• The United States losing the Cold War

• South Korea invading North Korea

Which president created the Commission on Civil Rights and integrated the military in 1948?

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

The US and the Soviet Union were stockpiling weapons in an effort to have more weapons than the other side. This was called...

• the Korean War

• the Manhattan Project

• the arms race

• disarmament talks

What happened to many eastern European countries after WWII?

• They were dependent on the Marshall Plan

• They developed democratic governments

• They became economic world powers

• They became Soviet satellite states

The Eisenhower administration is responsible for the ___________, which is still important today.

• cable TV

• landing on the moon

• interstate highway system

• communication satellite system

What happened at the Bay of Pigs?

• The Soviets attempted to install nuclear weapons in Haiti

• The Soviets invaded Hungary

• The US tried to overthrow the Cuban communist government

• A meeting in the Soviet Union to develop the Warsaw pact

Who was President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• JFK

• LBJ

• Nixon

• Ford