UNIT 8 The Cold War Era & Contemporary America Exam Review

Select all of the following that are effects of September 11 terror attacks:

• Creation of the Department of Homeland Security

• Passage of the USA PATRIOT Act

• US invasion of Afghanistan

• US withdrawal from NATO

Who won the 2000 election even though he lost the popular vote?

• Donald Trump

• Bill Clinton

• Abraham Lincoln

• George W. Bush

What structure symbolizes the Cold War?

• The Iron Curtain

• Sputnik I

• The Berlin Wall

• World Trade Center

Match the following

• George W Bush

• Called for the end of division in Berlin "Tear Down This Wall!"

• Ronald Reagan

• Went to war to protect access to Kuwaiti oil

• George HW Bush

• Established the Truman Doctrine & policy of containment

• Richard Nixon

• detente policy - reached a better understanding with the Soviets in the 1970s (SALT I)

• Harry Truman

• Lost the popular vote in 2000 election but won the electoral college vote

Identify the first example of the Truman Doctrine in action:

• Diplomatic solution to the Cuban. Missile Crisis

• Economic aid to Turkey and Greece ($400m)

• Construction of the Berlin Wall

• Use of the two atomic bombs at the end of WWII

Which plan was adopted by the United States to provide aid to devastated Europe?

• The Truman Plan

• The Marshall Plan

• The Warsaw Plan

• The Soviet Plan

Identify a conflict or crisis that did not result in the containment of communism:

• The Berlin Airlift

• The Korean War

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Vietnam War

How did the United States respond to the first Soviet satellite? (Sputinik 1)?

• The US immediately sent a mission to the moon

• The US put nuclear missile launch sites in Turkey

• The US blockaded Cuba

• The US invested federal funds in math and science education

What strategy did Martin Luther King adopt to challenge segregation?

• violence

• civil disobedience

How did President Eisenhower show that he would use the power of the US government to enforce integration of schools in the South?

• He deployed the army to Little Rock, AK

• He marched with protesters in the South

• He got involved in boycotts and sit ins

• He supported the southern leaders who resisted integration