Cold War and U.S. History Quiz

What was Ivy Mike?

• Code name for JFK

• Soviet nuclear test

• First successful U.S. test of a hydrogen bomb (1952)

• Nuclear treaty

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What was Castle Bravo?

• Cold War satellite

• Soviet bomb test

• Largest U.S. nuclear test, conducted in 1954; caused unexpected radioactive fallout

• First atomic bomb

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What was the purpose of "Duck and Cover"?

• Fire drill practice

• Civil defense drills taught to schoolchildren in case of a nuclear attack

• Sports training

• Earthquake drills

What were fallout shelters built for?

• Storing food

• Celebrations

• Protecting from air raids

• Bunkers built to protect against radioactive debris from nuclear explosions

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Who was U.S. President from 1953 to 1961?

• Harry S. Truman

• John F. Kennedy

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Who was Eisenhower’s Secretary of State?

• George Marshall

• Robert F. Kennedy

• John Foster Dulles

• Dean Acheson

What was brinkmanship?

• Agreement with USSR

• Use of small arms

• U.S. policy of pushing dangerous situations to the edge of war to intimidate opponents

• Military withdrawal plan

What did the policy of massive retaliation involve?

• Using tanks and jets

• Nonviolent resistance

• Policy of threatening to use nuclear weapons in response to any Soviet aggression

• Diplomacy only

What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?

• Promise to rebuild Europe

• U.S. promise to aid Middle Eastern countries resisting communism

• Domestic policy

• Space exploration plan

What happened in the U-2 Incident?

• USSR plane landed in the U.S.

• U.S. spy plane was shot down over the USSR

• JFK’s plane crash

• German bomber downed in Korea