Cold War Checkpoint 2 Review

The idea that if one country falls to communism, nearby countries will also fall to communism is called...

• Containment

• Domino Theory

• NATO

• Cuban Missile Crisis

The US foreign policy to stop the spread of communism was called...

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Domino Theory

• Containment

When the Soviet Union shout down all trains and roads into Berlin, the US responded by...

• giving control of West Berlin to the Soviet Union in the Berlin Agreement

• going to war with the Soviet Union

• flying food and supplies into West Berlin in the Belin Airlift

• using the military to take control of the railroads and get supplies to West Berlin

The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall separating East and West Berlin because...

• many people from East Berlin were leaving to go live in West Berlin

• many people from West Berlin were trying to move to East Berlin

• they needed to defend East Berlin from the US Army forces

• they wanted to protect East Berlin from the Nazis

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US was worried because...

• the Cuban Army, with the help of the Soviet Union, was preparing to invade the US

• communists in Cuba were trying to spread communism to the US

• the Soviet Union put nuclear missiles in Cuba, only 90 miles from the US coast

• the Soviet Union was planning to bomb Cuba with nuclear missiles

Why did the US get involved in the wars in Korea and Vietnam?

• Korea and Vietnam had natural resources that the US wanted to control

• the US wanted to make sure that Korea and Vietnam had communist governments

• there were many Korean and Vietnamese people living in the US

• the US wanted to stop communism from spreading to Korea and Vietnam

Cuban Missile Crisis Agreement:

Soviet Union removes all nuclear weapons from Cuba immediately

US secretly removes missiles from Turkey in four months

How did this agreement help the US look like they "won" the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• The Soviets had to remove more missiles than the US did

• The Soviet missile removal was big news around the world, but the US missile removal was secret. The rest of the world thought the Soviet Union had given in to US demands. It made the Soviet Union look weak

• The US still had nuclear missiles in other places near the Soviet Union, but there were not Soviet missiles left near the US

At the end of the Korean War, Korea stayed divided, with North Korea being communist and South Korea being capitalist. Why was Korea still considered a "win" for the US?

• because South Korea was bigger than North Korea

• because the US didn't lose as many soldiers during the war

• because the US had accomplished its goal of stopping communism from spreading to South Korea

• because the US forced the Soviet Union to spend more money on the war in Korea

Which are examples of difficulties faced by US soldiers fighting in Vietnam. (more than one correct answer)

• Viet Cong did not wear uniforms and used guerilla warfare which made it hard for soldiers to tell enemy soldiers from civilians.

• The US used a "seek and destroy" strategy instead of taking control of an area. That meant that enemy soldiers hid during US attacks and then returned when US soldiers left.

• Viet Cong soldiers knew the land better than US soldiers so it was easy for them to hide and carry out surprise attacks

• Fighting in Vietnam took place in hot, wet, jungles where US soldiers caught tropical diseases and suffered from heat exhaustion.