Checkpoint 8 Review

Which event brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war?

• The Berlin Airlift

• The Kitchen Debate

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks

The quotation below is from J. Robert Oppenheimer. "When Hiroshima was bombed, there was a single plane...[and] we dropped one bomb...But we also had in mind...that it was not a question of one bomb. It would become a question of ten, and then one hundred, and then a thousand, and then ten thousand, and then maybe one hundred thousand." — J. Robert Oppenheimer, July 1953 This quotation shows Oppenheimer's concern about the—

• quickly increasing power of atomic bombs.

• potential dangers of an unchecked arms race.

• extreme costs of developing nuclear weapons.

• need for peaceful development of atomic energy.

What was the primary reason for US involvement in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s?

• To gain access to foreign oil reserves

• To establish new colonies

• To halt the spread of communism

• To find new markets for exports

Which goal of Nazi leaders led to the development of a plan called the “Final Solution”?

• wage a bomb strike over British cities

• launch a nuclear attack on American soil

• boycott all Catholic businesses in Europe

• exterminate the Jewish people of Europe

Which significant event in 1941 brought the U.S. into World War II?

• Atomic bomb dropped

• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• Assassination of Grand Duke Ferdinand

• Germany's invasion of France

What is the BEST interpretation of the political cartoon above?

• Hitler planned to build a worldwide empire.

• Hitler planned to spread the German culture around the world.

• Germany's empire stretched around the Earth.

• Germany's empire could not be beaten.

Which statements about World War I are supported by the excerpt?

• Trench warfare was a dominant defense approach during World War I.

• Air Warfare did not exist during World War I.

• Trench warfare caused enormous numbers of casualties. 

• Only the Allied powers used trenches during World War I.   

• Armoured warfare was the least successful response to trench warfare. 

Which scientific advance directly resulted from the Cold War arms race?

• antibiotic medicine

• artificial intelligence

• space exploration

• green energy

What allowed fascist leaders to come to power in Germany and Italy in the 1920s and 1930s?

• Their support of the League of Nations led to an influx of foreign aid and assistance.

• Resistance to all forms of extreme nationalism led to international support for their rule.

• Maintaining political traditions allowed them to gain the trust of their citizenry who feared reform.

• Exploitation of economic hardships experienced by their people helped them gain popular support.

Economic development has been limited in much of the Middle East due to —

• political instability

• a lack of profitable resources

• geographic isolation

• a lack of foreign markets