Cold War Oversimplified Part 2

Who met in a bar in Mexico City and decided to overthrow the Cuban government?

• John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro and Che Guevara

• Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

• Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

What was the result of the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

• A humiliating defeat for America

• The establishment of a democratic government in Cuba

• A successful overthrow of Castro

• A nuclear war with the Soviet Union

What did the US spy plane notice over Cuba on October 14th, 1962?

• A large military parade

• Soviet missiles

• A fleet of Soviet ships

• A new Cuban airbase

What was the US response to the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba?

• A diplomatic negotiation

• Immediate airstrikes

• A naval blockade

• An invasion of Cuba

What did the US and Soviet Union agree to in order to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Both A and B

• a) The Soviet Union would remove missiles from Cuba

• Neither A nor B

• b) The US would remove missiles from Turkey

What treaty was signed after the Cuban Missile Crisis to limit nuclear weapons testing?

• The Non-Proliferation Treaty

• The Limited Test Ban Treaty

• The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

• The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

What was the main reason for the US involvement in Vietnam?

• To support French colonizers

• To prevent the spread of communism

• To gain control of Vietnamese resources

• To establish a military base in Asia

What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail used for?

• Conducting peace talks

• Transporting American troops

• Supplying the Vietcong

• Evacuating civilians

What was the doctrine of MAD?

• Massive Attack Deterrence

• Mutual Aid Defense

• Military Arms Development

• Mutual Assured Destruction

What event marked the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union?

• The fall of the Berlin Wall

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Vietnam War

• The Korean War