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Worksheets12.1 Review
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 34mins
The 1960 Presidential election was a contest between which two candidates
John Kennedy(R) and Richard Nixon(D)
John Kennedy(D) and Richard Nixon(R)
Robert Kennedy(D) and Richard Nixon(R)
Lyndon B. Johnson(D) and Richard Nixon(R)
What event was unique to the 1960 Presidential election?
First Democratic Candidate elected to the Presidency.
First Televised Debate
Last Republican nominated for the Presidency
No Vice-Presidential Candidates on the Ticket
What was the main reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall?
To blockade Berlin from obtaining supplies
To stop East Germans from fleeing West Berlin
To stop communism from spreading
To anger the United States
______________ was the political conflict and period of distrust between the Soviet Union and United States.
World War I
World War II
Cold War
French and Indian War
What is the 1962 Cold War event where the Soviet Union, with the agreement of the Castro regime, placed missiles on the island of Cuba?
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Holocaust
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
When one nation's government decides to prohibit or stop all trade with another nation is known as a(n) _____________.
tariff
quota
embargo
subsidy
Bay of Pigs was the
failed military invasion and unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro in 1962
attempted bombing of the southern coast of Cuba
agreement between the Soviet Union and U.S. to divide Cuba
site of a nuclear explosion in Cuba
Castro attempted to make improvements in Cuba's ________________ and ____________________.
economy and trade
freedom and equality
healthcare and education
trade and healthcare
Much of Cuba's wealth was controlled by
the U.S.
Soviet Union
Cuba
Spain
What type of government did the Cuban Revolution overthrow?
a communist autocracy
a military dictatorship
a representative democracy
a command system
Who was the leader of the USA during the Cuban Missile Crisis & the Cold War?
Nikita Kruschev
John F Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Franklin D Roosevelt
What kind of leader was Fidel Castro to Cuba?
Governor
King
Senator
Dictator
Which invasion occurred with the intentions to overthrow the Castro government
Cuban Missile Crisis
Battle of Gettysburg
Bay of Pigs
Battle of Midway
What type of government was eventually put in place under Castro's rule?
Democracy
Socialism
Communism
Fascism
Who did Cuba have very close ties with that was a communist superpower in Europe and Asia?
China
North Korea
United States
Soviet Union
What is the name of the country in white on the map?
United States
Cuba
Colombia
Soviet Union
The goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to get rid of which communist leader?
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Fidel Castro
None of the above
Who helped train the Cuban exiles?
FBI
CIA
NSA
Police
The United States used Cuban exiles for the Bay of Pigs invasion
True
False
Which country became a closer friend of the Cuban government after the Bay of Pigs?
Germany
United States
Soviet Union
Canada
The Soviet leader at the time of the Bay of Pigs was___________.
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Which of the following statements is true about the Bay of Pigs?
Castro was alert and prepared for a rebel attack because the first rebel soldiers had missed their target.
Soviet ships carrying medical supplies and food were refused entrance to the Bay of Pigs and had to turn back.
Castro made an alliance with Gorbachev, who placed missiles in Cuba which were directed at the US.
A US spy plane observed the Cubans placing Soviet submarines in the Bay of Pigs, which prompted the US to attack Cuba.
The Bay of Pigs is a small farming community that was being used to disguise the Soviet missiles being set up on the coast of Cuba.
Which of the following justifies Kennedy's Navy block around Cuba?
Khrushchev removed all Soviet missiles from Cuba.
An American spy plane caught the Soviet Union placing nuclear weapons in Cuba.
Fidel Castro becomes dictator of Cuba and launches his new line of army fatigues with matching beards.
Khrushchev led a conference in Yalta but the US was not invited.
Castro threatened to launch four missiles at the US if Kennedy refused to take down the US missiles in Turkey.
Which of the following statements expresses the message in this political cartoon?
Castro reluctantly agreed to give Khrushchev 54 of his submarines in exchange for the Soviet missiles.
Castro had a terrible toothache and asked Khrushchev if he would pay his dental bill.
In 1968 Khrushchev demanded that Castro remove 22 missiles in Turkey, which were pointed at the Soviet Union.
Khrushchev determined he couldn't trust Castro and made the decision to remove the 100 missiles he had left behind in Cuba.
Castro mockingly told Khrushchev he would rather lose all his teeth than to lose all the missiles pointed at the United States.
_________.
What kind of government did Ho Chi Minh establish?
Communism
Democracy
Socialism
Monarchy
What Vietnamese victory led to the French agreeing to leave Indochina?
Khe Sanh
Phu Quoc
Dien Bien Phu
Du Doc Thien
What US policy strongly influenced US involvement in the Vietnam War?
Domino Theory
Spread Theory
Red Scare
Vietnamization
What type of war did the US face in Vietnam?
terrorism
guerrilla warfare
trench warfare
gentleman's warfare
North Vietnamese offensive which attacked South Vietnamese cities by surprise; marked a turning point in US public opinion against the war.
Battle of Khe Sanh
The Vietcong
Ho Chi Minh Campaign
Tet Offensive
Who won the Vietnam War?
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
China
United States
The genocide of artists, monks, gov’t officials, and other educated individuals by Pol Pots communist regime in Cambodia is known as the -
Ethnic Cleansing
Final Solution
Great Purge
Cambodian Genocide
