WESTERN CIV: Cold War Oversimplified (part 2 of 2)

Fidel Castro, the Bay of Pigs, and the closest the world has yet to come to nuclear war all involves...?

• Haiti

• Cuba

• Puerto Rico

• My Kitchen

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US strategic air command alert level reached what level?

• Defcon 2

• Defcon Yellow

• Code Blue

• Code Red

To get the Soviets to remove their missiles from Cuba, the US had to agree to remove our missiles from ... ?

• Russia

• Greece

• Turkey

• Germany

Name the Cold War policy in which both sides tried to peacefully coexist to avoid a possible apocalyptic world.

• RAD

• BAD

• SAD

• MAD

Pres. Lyndon Johnson felt that he had to send the troops into Vietnam in order to combat "The Domino Effect" with?

• The full US nuclear arsenal

• Containment

• Backgammon moves

• Imperialism

Which of the following was NOT a "proxy war" in which the US & USSR took opposing sides?

• A) Vietnam

• B) Angola

• C) The "Yom Kippur War"

• D) The Lithuanian Uprising

In what year did the city of Saigon and South Vietnam fall to the communist forces of the North?

• 1969

• 1973

• 1975

• 1977

An example of "detente" during the Cold War was when President Nixon visited the USSR in 1972.

• True

• False

According to the video, in what place did the Soviet Union have its own "Vietnam"?

• Cuba

• Pakistan

• Afghanistan

• Vietnam

Which of the following is NOT true?

• Pres. Reagan proposed a nuclear shield that was nicknamed "Star Wars".

• Mikhail Gorbachev allowed criticism in the USSR with his "glasnost" policy.

• Hungary allowed its citizens (and others) to travel to Austria in 1989.

• Pres. Reagan called mainland China "the evil empire" in 1983.