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WorksheetsUnit 9
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 28mins
What is the term used to describe the invisible line that separated communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe?
Berlin Wall
Iron Curtain
No Man's Land
Iron Wall
What wars were fought during the Cold War as a result of containment and the Domino Theory?
Korean & Vietnam War
WWI & WWII
Civil War & Spanish American War
Persian Gulf & War on Terror
During the Cold War, what bill did the U.S. Congress pass to provide financial assistance to western European countries?
Truman Doctrine
Open Door Policy
Marshall Plan
Domino Theory
During what Cold War event did the U.S. bypass a Soviet blockade in Germany without provoking a military conflict?
Berlin Airlift
Vietnam War
Watergate Scandal
Bataan Death March
How did the Soviets begin the "Space Race" which started in 1957?
They launched the first ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile)
They launched the first artificial satellite named Sputnik into space
They created the first space station
They produced the largest hydrogen bomb ever
Why did the launch of Sputnik frighten many in the United States?
It meant the Soviet Union could stop all nuclear attacks sent their way
It made them feel they fell behind the Soviets in technology and they had more powerful nuclear rockets
They believed the USSR would soon declare war on the US
It made Americans feel an impending invasion of US soil was happening
How did the United States work to challenge the Soviet Union in the "Space Race" after Sputnik?
They sent spies to copy Soviet space secrets
War was declared on the Soviet Union
The US put nuclear missiles closer to the Soviet Union
NASA was created and the US spent more on math and science education to make engineers.
What was created by the Soviet Union in response to NATO?
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Wall
Central Powers
The Kremlin
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)
A competition between superpowers to develop new, more deadly nuclear and controversial weapons.
Arms Race
Domino Theory
Glasnost
Warsaw Pact
Why did the USSR want to put missiles on Cuba?
To have more missiles because they couldn't match the nuclear power of the US
To counter the Warsaw Pact countries that were overthrowing communism
To counter the US missiles in Italy and Turkey
To counter the power of NATO
Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
James Gregory
What ended the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The USSR removes missiles and the US leaves Cuba alone.
The US uses all of their missiles and destroys Cuba
Cuba forfiets
JFK got tired of fighting and just made a treaty
Exit strategy for American forces during the Vietnam War. Plan was to gradually reduce American forces and replace those leaving with trained South Vietnamese troops.
Vietnamization
War Powers Act
Containment
Tet Offensive
People became critical of Lyndon Johnson's administration due to tv images not showing what Johnson's people were saying.
Domino Theory
New Frontier
Credibility Gap
Pentagon Papers
This resolution allowed the President of the United States to use military force as he saw fit without asking for a formal war declaration from Congress. Credited with having allowed the Vietnam War to escalate into a war.
War Powers Act
Pentagon Papers
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
New Frontier
This act was passed to prevent another situation in which the American President could use military force without asking Congress for a war declaration.
Pentagon Papers
Vietnamization
Tet Offensive
War Powers Act
In the war on terror, the United States targeted the terrorist group Al-Qaeda and
Afghani Civilians
The Taliban
Russian Nationalists
Northern Alliance Troops
NAFTA was an agreement between which countries?
America, Cuba, and Mexico
Mexico and Canada
Mexico, Canada, and the United States
Mexico, Columbia, and Canada
