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Modern Era Containment-Iran Contra Scandal

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The Cold War ended in 1991, when which country broke apart?
a)
China
b)
Kuwait
c)
Soviet Union
d)
Cuba
2.
To resist the spread of Communism in Latin America and liberate American hostages, the several US officials became involved in what scandal?
a)
Watergate
b)
Whitewater
c)
Iran-Contra
d)
Benghazi 
3.

Selling weapons to Iran to free hostages and using the money to fund war in Central America

a)

Iran-Contra Affair

b)

Watergate Affair

c)

Reagonomics

d)

Camp David Accords

4.
Ronald Reagan declared war on what?
a)
Terror
b)
Poverty
c)
Drugs
d)
AIDS
5.

Which of the following actions occurred during the Iran-Contra affair?

a)

The Reagan administration used earnings from weapons sales to Iran to illegally fund the contras.

b)

The Reagan administration secretly hired Iranian agents to fight against the contras.

c)

The Reagan administration paid the contras to release Americans being held hostage in Iran.

d)

The Reagan administration hired Lebanese agents to rescue Iranians being held by the contras.

6.

In November 1979, revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. The Carter administration tried unsuccessfully to negotiate for the hostages release. On January 20, 1981, the day Carter left office, Iran released the Americans, ending their 444 days in captivity.

a)

Iran Contra Affair

b)

OPEC Hostage Crisis

c)

Iran Hostage Crisis

d)

Tehran Hostage Crisis

7.
Profits from weapons sales to Iran were used to fund:
a)
Reagonomics
b)
Domestic Programs
c)
Nicaraguan Contras
d)
Social Security
8.

The U.S. got involved in Korea and Vietnam because of what foreign policy?

a)

containment

b)

Good Neighbor policy

c)

isolationism

d)

Roosevelt Corollary

9.

After WWII, North Korea was occupied by the ____________ and had a ____________ government.

a)

U.S.S.R./Communist

b)

U.S.S.R./Democratic

c)

U.S.A./Communist

d)

U.S.A./Democratic

10.

After WWII, South Korea was occupied by ____________ and had a ____________ government.

a)

U.S.S.R./Communist

b)

U.S.S.R./Democratic

c)

U.S.A./Communist

d)

U.S.A./Democratic

11.
What is the idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, the rest of SE Asia would follow?
a)
Domino theory
b)
MAD theory
c)
Containment theory
d)
China Syndrome
12.
What was the main reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall?
a)
To embarrass America
b)
To stop East Germans from fleeing to West Germany
c)
To reduce cold war tensions
d)
To demonstrate the success of Communism
13.
In Vietnam the fighters used an irregular warfare tactic that made it difficult for our soldiers to be successful...it was called?
a)
Vietnamese Warfare tactics
b)
Cheetah Warfare
c)
Hidden Warfare
d)
Guerrilla warfare
14.

Why is 1991 significant?

a)

Pearl Harbor

b)

End of the Cold War

c)

Sputnik

d)

MLK Assassinated

15.

Supreme Court ruled that state criminal abortion laws violated a woman's right to privacy

a)

Roe v. Wade

b)

Plessy v Ferguson

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Martin V. King