11.3/11.4 Quiz

In 1957, the USSR successfully launched this satellite into space:

• Hubble Telescope

• Gemini 2

• Apollo 11

• Sputnik

What "politically tense" event began in 1962 when the U.S. discovered that the USSR had placed ICBM missile sites in Cuba?

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Laika disaster

• U-2 incident

In 1956, John Dulles said the U.S. was willing to risk war in order to state our interests/goals. What did the U.S. call this policy of pushing close to the edge of war?

• Space Race

• Brinkmanship

• Containment

The idea that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations would soon follow...

• Communism

• Imperialism

• Vietnamization

• Domino Theory

Which word means, "easing/lessening of tension?"

• Inflation
• Detente
• Stagflation
• Constipation 

This cartoon represents which topic?

• the Space Race

• the Arms Race

• the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

• the Earth's environmental problems

Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Felipe Gonzales

• Fidel Castro

• Pancho Villa

Who is the man with the "missile teeth"?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Raul Rodriguez

• Che Guevara

The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)

• Inchon Invasion

• Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhal Gorbachav

• Fidel Castro