8R Unit 7 Test: The Cold War- ENL

The excerpt was most likely designed to

• provide economic assistance to struggling European nations

• allow European workers to settle in the United States

• install democratic governments in Western Europe

• strengthen European military defenses

The SALT I and SALT II agreements of the 1970s aimed to improve US-Soviet relations by

• encouraging space exploration

• increasing cultural exchanges

• lowering trade barriers

• limiting nuclear weapons

The situation in Europe described by Secretary of State George Marshall was the result of the

• failure of the United Nations to help people in need

• destruction caused by fighting in World War II

• construction of the Berlin Wall by the Soviet Union

• takeover of Greece and Turkey by communist forces

The Berlin airlift, Marshall Plan, and Korean War were early events in U.S. policy of

• imperialism

• containment

• isolationism

• neutrality

United States involvement in the Vietnam War was to

• prevent Japanese expansion in the Pacific

• ensure access to oil from the Middle East

• contain communism in Southeast Asia

• protect American business in China

The information in this article most directly led President Kennedy to

• explore Mars and other planets

• ask Congress to fund the Hubble telescope

• pledge to put a man on the moon within 10 years

• join the Soviet Union in building a space station

Which development is linked to the "domino theory"?

• military involvement in Vietnam

• signing of the nuclear test ban treaty

• construction of the Berlin Wall

• end of the Korean War

The Cuban Missile Crisis ended when the

• Soviet Union withdrew weapons from Cuba

• Bay of Pigs invasion removed Fidel Castro

• Cuba signed trade agreements with the US

• US announced the Alliance for Progress

President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972 was significant because it

• decreased US dependence on Chinese exports

• unified Taiwan and Communist China

• convinced China to abandon communism

• reduced US-China tensions

One action taken by the United States in response to the map was to

• return to a foreign policy of isolationism

• attack Soviet-controlled territories

• help form NATO

• sign trade agreements with Soviet-controlled nations