The Cold War Overview - Exit Quiz

Which action BEST symbolizes the end of the Cold War?

• Establishing the Peace Corps

• Tearing down the Berlin Wall

• Achieving a truce in the Korean War

• Improving United States relations with China

The 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the 1962 missile crisis are conflicts directly related to United States relations with which two nations?

• China and Japan

• North Korea and South Korea

• The Dominican Republic and Haiti

• Cuba and the Soviet Union

During the 1950's, United States foreign policy was characterized by

• efforts to block communist expansion

• an alliance with the Warsaw Pact nations

• economic aid to the Soviet Union

• increased trade with Communist China

. . . But this secret, swift, and extraordinary buildup of Communist missiles—in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the United States and the nations of the Western Hemisphere, in violation of Soviet assurances, and in defiance of American and hemispheric policy— this sudden, clandestine [secret] decision to station strategic weapons for the first time outside of Soviet soil—is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country, if our courage and our commitments are ever to be trusted again by either friend or foe. . . .

– President John F. Kennedy, October 22, 1962

The statement above is most closely associated with which of the following Cold War events?

• Bay of Pigs invasion

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

Which event is an example of a direct result of the United States having to deal with the building of the Berlin Wall, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban missile crisis during the early 1960s?

• Concern for the safety of Americans living in foreign nations

• United States continued support of United Nations decisions

• United States failure to remain involved in world affairs

• Continuing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union

The United States policy of détente can best be described as an effort to

• halt the arms race with China

• reduce tensions with the Soviet Union

• end an embargo against Cuba

• negotiate peace agreements with North Korea

Which event of the 1950s most likely led to the publication of this cartoon?

• Russia developed an atomic bomb

• American students scored lower on tests in math and science

• The United States was defeated in Vietnam

• The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite

The changes shown on the chart most clearly reflect the

• reverses in political party control of Congress

• failure of United States military policy

• influence of the business cycle

• effects of the Cold War

The main idea expressed in the cartoon involves the

• need for all people to be informed about world affairs

• problems created by the development of nuclear weapons

• relationship between consumer needs and military needs

• problems associated with the shift from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy

What was the main reason for President Kennedy's action toward Cuba?

• Cuba threatened to seize United States merchant ships in the Caribbean

• The United States needed to protect business investments in Cuba.

• Cuba is located close to the United States.

• The cost of building missile defense bases in Florida was high.