WorksheetsSocial Studies: Pentathlon (CIA, Middle East, Khruschev)
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
Eisenhower’s foreign policy strategy that aimed to save money by relying on nuclear weapons and covert action over conventional arms and forces.
Eisenhower Doctrine
New Look
Operation AJAX
Operation PBSUCCESS
Throughout the Cold War, anti-communism consistently trumped democratic ideals in US foreign policy decisions to back dictatorial governments.
True
False
What organization under Eisenhower became like “a government within a government, which could evade oversight of its activities by drawing the cloak of secrecy about itself."
FBI
CIA
NSA
KGB
The democratically elected prime minister of Iran who was ousted in a CIA coup in 1953 to gain access to Iran's natural rich resource, oil.
John Foster Dulles
Allen Dulles
Mohammad Mossadegh
Eisenhower
US Secretary of State (1953–59), who championed massive retaliation as the official policy of the United States and helped orchestrate the CIA-backed coup of Iran, officially known as Operation AJAX.
Joseph McCarthy
Eisenhower
Dulles, Allen
Dulles, John Foster
The first director of the CIA (1953–61) who oversaw the agency’s expansion during the Eisenhower administration; he was instrumental in the elevation of clandestine intervention within US foreign policy; with the help of his brother he orchestrated the CIA-backed coup of Iran, officially known as Operation AJAX.
Dulles, Allen
Dulles, John Foster
Hiss, Alger
McNamara, Robert S.
The code name for the 1953 CIA coup that ousted democratically elected Mohammad Mossadegh and brought Reza Shah Pahlavi to power in Iran.
Operation PBSUCCESS
Operation AJAX
NASA
NSC-68
What organization helped undermine the democratically elected Iranian Mossadegh by bribing local officials, disseminating propaganda, organizing protests, and arming antigovernment forces.
CIA
FBI
NSA
KGB
Washington viewed the Operation AJAX as a double success because:
It ousted democratically elected Mohammad Mossadegh and replaced him with the pro American corrupt dictator Shah Reza Pahlavi.
It damaged America’s reputation among Iranians and sowed the seeds for the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979.
It expanded the CIA and offered the president a way to wield American power without congressional and public scrutiny.
It had saved Iran from falling into Moscow’s orbit and provided American corporations access to Iran’s oil.
A populist military officer and democratically elected leader of Guatemala who was overthrown in a CIA-backed coup in 1954.
Arbenz, Jacobo
Mossadegh, Mohammad
Lysenko, Trofim
Mobutu, Joseph
The Dulles brothers, both of whom had close ties to the United Fruit Company, feared Arbenz’s land redistribution represented the first stage of a communist infection that could spread throughout the region if left unchecked. Leading to what covert CIA operation?
Operation AJAX.
Operation PBSUCCESS
Geneva Accords
NSC-68
During what mission, did CIA agents helped train rebel forces, ran a radio station that broadcast propaganda, and even escorted the military junta into the capital?
Operation PBSUCCESS
Operation AJAX
Samizdat
Nash equilibrium
Vietnamese revolutionary and president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969; he led his nation’s struggle for independence from the French, resistance of the Japanese occupation during WWII, and fight for a unified Communist Vietnam against the United States.
Mossadegh, Mohammad
Pahlavi,RezaShah
Kai-shek, Chiang
Ho Chi Minh
A Vietnamese independence movement led by Ho Chi Minh that defeated the French Army, Supported by the US, at Dien Bien Phu in 1954
Viet Cong
Viet Minh
Students for a Democratic Society
Ngo Dinh Diem
What's going on here?
Shah Reza Pahlavi shakes hands with OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) members in Tehran in 1970. The CIA-supported coup that brought Shah Reza Pahlavi to power provided American corporations access to Iran’s oil.
Peace negotiations at the Geneva Conference in 1954 established what was meant to be a temporary partition of Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
Gamal Abdel Nasser raises the Egyptian flag in Port Said on the Suez Canal to celebrate Britain’s withdrawal from Egypt in 1956.
Khrushchev (front left) and Roswell Garst (front right) on a visit to an Iowa cornfield.
A peace agreement that formally granted Vietnam independence but partitioned the former French colony at the 17th parallel and called for national elections in 1956 for a unified Vietnam government; the elections were never held.
Détente
Geneva Accord
Bay of Pigs
Paris Peace Accords
What's going on here?
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort nine AfricanAmerican students into all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Shah Reza Pahlavi shakes hands with OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) members in Tehran in 1970. The CIA-supported coup that brought Shah Reza Pahlavi to power provided American corporations access to Iran’s oil.
Gamal Abdel Nasser raises the Egyptian flag in Port Said on the Suez Canal to celebrate Britain’s withdrawal from Egypt in 1956.
Peace negotiations at the Geneva Conference in 1954 established what was meant to be a temporary partition of Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
What's going on here?
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort nine AfricanAmerican students into all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Shah Reza Pahlavi shakes hands with OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) members in Tehran in 1970. The CIA-supported coup that brought Shah Reza Pahlavi to power provided American corporations access to Iran’s oil.
Peace negotiations at the Geneva Conference in 1954 established what was meant to be a temporary partition of Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
Gamal Abdel Nasser raises the Egyptian flag in Port Said on the Suez Canal to celebrate Britain’s withdrawal from Egypt in 1956.
Fear of a communist takeover of South Vietnam by Ho Chi Minh prompted Eisenhower to secretly funnel money, military supplies, and CIA advisers to bolster what Catholic anti-communist authoritarian?
A decade later, American covert intervention would dramatically escalate into full-blown war
Bao Dai
Ngo Dinh Diem
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Jawharal Nehru
What two countries were not invited to the Bandung Conference, where India’s Jawharal Nehru, Indonesia’s Sukarno, and others called for unity among former colonized peoples and advocated for non-alignment in the Cold War.
South Korea and North Korea
China and Vietnam
Soviet Union and United States
France and Japan
Held in Indonesia, as a forum for the Non-Aligned Movement, which encouraged newly independent nations to adopt a neutral stance in the Cold War.
Bangdung Conference
Geneva Accords
Operation PBSUCCESS
Operation AJAX
A movement led by leaders of newly independent nations in Asia and Africa to declare neutrality in the Cold War.
New Look
non-alignment
Viet Minh
Yalta Conference
What type of thinking by American policymakers held that nations not allied with the United States were against freedom and likely to turn communist.
pacifist
containment
appeasement
zero-sum
What Egyptian leader, sought economic aid from America for large-scale development projects like the 40 Aswan High Dam (a massive hydroelectric dam on the Nile) and from the Soviets, sought arms and other manufactured goods
Jawharal Nehru
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
On July 26, 1956, less than a week after the Americans broke off foreign aid talks, Nasser nationalized— or took government control of a privately owned enterprise without just compensation— an economically vital manmade waterway linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas jointly operated by Britain and France called what?
Geneva
The Suez Canal
Indonesia
Bandung
Khrushchev denounced Stalin, whom he accused of betraying Leninism through his murderous campaign of terror in what?
non-alignment
Secret Speech
Geneva Accord
Bandung Conference
During de-Stalinization, he pledged to restore multi-party rule, called for the complete withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary and announced Hungary’s exit from the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact security alliance and called on the UN to preserve its newly declared neutrality. Only to be executed during failed Hungarian Uprising.
Imre Nagy
Nikita Khrushchev
Roswell Garst
Dwight Eisenhower
What failed revolution underscored that US officials had accepted the Soviet Union’s domination of Eastern Europe as an unhappy feature of Cold War stability
popular protests in Poland
Hungarian uprising
the Suez Canal
An Iowa farmer who befriended Khrushchev in 1955 and supplied the Soviet Union with thousands of tons of hybrid corn seed.
Churchill, Winston
Ellsberg, Daniel
Dulles, Allen
Garst, Roswell
What's going on here?
Khrushchev and Vice President Nixon debate the merits of communism versus capitalism during the kitchen debate at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959.
Khrushchev (front left) and Roswell Garst (front right) on a visit to an Iowa cornfield.
Soviet tanks in the Hungarian capital of Budapest in October 1956.
John F. Kennedy casts his ballot in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections in American history.
What's going on here?
John F. Kennedy casts his ballot in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections in American history.
Khrushchev and Vice President Nixon debate the merits of communism versus capitalism during the kitchen debate at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959.
Khrushchev (front left) and Roswell Garst (front right) on a visit to an Iowa cornfield.
Soviet tanks in the Hungarian capital of Budapest in October 1956
What's going on here?
Soviet tanks in the Hungarian capital of Budapest in October 1956.
Khrushchev visits to an Iowa cornfield.
Vice President Nixon debates the merits of communism versus capitalism during the kitchen debate at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959.
John F. Kennedy casts his ballot in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections in American history.
What led Khrushchev to trumpet the scientific and technological superiority of the Soviet Union over the United States.
Khrushchev claimed that for Soviet engineers building missiles was like making sausages and boasted that the new ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) allowed him to target virtually any point on earth.
The successful 1957 launch of Sputnik I
The failed Hungarian uprising
de-Stalinization
The British and French attack of the Suez Canal
Select all of the following that occurred at the Kitchen Debate.
Khrushchev and Nixon met in a model-kitchen of the American Exhibition in Moscow.
Khrushchev claimed, and besides, unlike in the United States, all Soviet citizens were provided housing as a basic right.
Khrushchev issued an ultimatum, giving France, Britain, and the United States six months to demilitarize West Berlin and negotiate with the East German government for continued access to the city.
Nixon explained that an average American worker could afford the ranch style home and directed Khrushchev’s attention to the brand-new washing machine, which he said made life easier for American women.
Select all of the following that is related to the downing of a U-2 over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960.
erased any goodwill Khrushchev’s visit had generated
the aircraft was designed to fly at extremely high altitudes and evade radar, had been photographing Soviet missile sites
Eisenhower administration fumbled their response by saying the stray plane was conducting meteorological research.
Khrushchev paraded pilot Gary Powers, the miraculous crash survivor, before the international media as Powers publicly apologized for spying for the CIA
What Presidential candidate stridently criticized the Eisenhower administration’s management of the Cold War. His main line of attack centered on the erroneous claim that a growing “missile gap” threatened America’s national security.
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Kennedy quickly clashed with Khrushchev when the Soviet leader, eager to test the new president’s will did what?
constructed the Berlin Wall
asked Congress for an additional $3.2 billion in defense spending
Convicted of the pilot of the U2 plane, Powers, of espionage by a Soviet court and imprisoned for nearly two years
