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12.1 Review

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The 1960 Presidential election was a contest between which two candidates

a)

John Kennedy(R) and Richard Nixon(D)

b)

John Kennedy(D) and Richard Nixon(R)

c)

Robert Kennedy(D) and Richard Nixon(R)

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson(D) and Richard Nixon(R)

2.

What event was unique to the 1960 Presidential election?

a)

First Democratic Candidate elected to the Presidency.

b)

First Televised Debate

c)

Last Republican nominated for the Presidency

d)

No Vice-Presidential Candidates on the Ticket

3.

What was the main reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall?

a)

To blockade Berlin from obtaining supplies

b)

To stop East Germans from fleeing West Berlin

c)

To stop communism from spreading

d)

To anger the United States

4.

______________ was the political conflict and period of distrust between the Soviet Union and United States.

a)

World War I

b)

World War II

c)

Cold War

d)

French and Indian War

5.

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?

a)

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

b)

Holocaust

c)

Cuban Missile Crisis

d)

Bay of Pigs

6.

When one nation's government decides to prohibit or stop all trade with another nation is known as a(n) _____________.

a)

tariff

b)

quota

c)

embargo

d)

subsidy

7.

Bay of Pigs was the

a)

failed military invasion and unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro in 1962

b)

attempted bombing of the southern coast of Cuba

c)

agreement between the Soviet Union and U.S. to divide Cuba

d)

site of a nuclear explosion in Cuba

8.

Castro attempted to make improvements in Cuba's ________________ and ____________________.

a)

economy and trade

b)

freedom and equality

c)

healthcare and education

d)

trade and healthcare

9.

Much of Cuba's wealth was controlled by

a)

the U.S.

b)

Soviet Union

c)

Cuba

d)

Spain

10.
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Cuban Revolution?
a)
more tension with the United States
b)
weaker economy
c)
less political freedoms
d)
more freedoms
11.

What type of government did the Cuban Revolution overthrow?

a)

a communist autocracy

b)

a military dictatorship

c)

a representative democracy

d)

a command system

12.

Who was the leader of the USA during the Cuban Missile Crisis & the Cold War?

a)

Nikita Kruschev

b)

John F Kennedy

c)

Ronald Reagan

d)

Franklin D Roosevelt

13.

What kind of leader was Fidel Castro to Cuba?

a)

Governor

b)

King

c)

Senator

d)

Dictator

14.

Which invasion occurred with the intentions to overthrow the Castro government

a)

Cuban Missile Crisis

b)

Battle of Gettysburg

c)

Bay of Pigs

d)

Battle of Midway

15.

What type of government was eventually put in place under Castro's rule?

a)

Democracy

b)

Socialism

c)

Communism

d)

Fascism

16.

Who did Cuba have very close ties with that was a communist superpower in Europe and Asia?

a)

China

b)

North Korea

c)

United States

d)

Soviet Union

17.

What is the name of the country in white on the map?

a)

United States

b)

Cuba

c)

Colombia

d)

Soviet Union

18.

The goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to get rid of which communist leader?

a)

Nikita Khrushchev

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Fidel Castro

d)

None of the above

19.

Who helped train the Cuban exiles?

a)

FBI

b)

CIA

c)

NSA

d)

Police

20.

The United States used Cuban exiles for the Bay of Pigs invasion

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Which country became a closer friend of the Cuban government after the Bay of Pigs?

a)

Germany

b)

United States

c)

Soviet Union

d)

Canada

22.

The Soviet leader at the time of the Bay of Pigs was___________.

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Mikhail Gorbachev

c)

Leonid Brezhnev

d)

Nikita Khrushchev

23.

Which of the following statements is true about the Bay of Pigs?

a)

Castro was alert and prepared for a rebel attack because the first rebel soldiers had missed their target.

b)

Soviet ships carrying medical supplies and food were refused entrance to the Bay of Pigs and had to turn back.

c)

Castro made an alliance with Gorbachev, who placed missiles in Cuba which were directed at the US.

d)

A US spy plane observed the Cubans placing Soviet submarines in the Bay of Pigs, which prompted the US to attack Cuba.

e)

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.

24.

Which of the following justifies Kennedy's Navy block around Cuba?

a)

Khrushchev removed all Soviet missiles from Cuba.

b)

An American spy plane caught the Soviet Union placing nuclear weapons in Cuba.

c)

Fidel Castro becomes dictator of Cuba and launches his new line of army fatigues with matching beards.

d)

Khrushchev led a conference in Yalta but the US was not invited.

e)

Castro threatened to launch four missiles at the US if Kennedy refused to take down the US missiles in Turkey.

25.

Which of the following statements expresses the message in this political cartoon?

a)

Castro reluctantly agreed to give Khrushchev 54 of his submarines in exchange for the Soviet missiles.

b)

Castro had a terrible toothache and asked Khrushchev if he would pay his dental bill.

c)

In 1968 Khrushchev demanded that Castro remove 22 missiles in Turkey, which were pointed at the Soviet Union.

d)

Khrushchev determined he couldn't trust Castro and made the decision to remove the 100 missiles he had left behind in Cuba.

e)

Castro mockingly told Khrushchev he would rather lose all his teeth than to lose all the missiles pointed at the United States.

26.
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
27.
The United States sent troops to Vietnam
_________.
a)
to stop the spread of communism
b)
as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis
c)
to set up a capitalist goverment
d)
because they bombed us
28.
What event caused a negative shift in U.S. public opinion during the Vietnam War?
a)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
b)
The Geneva Accords 
c)
The Tet Offensive 
d)
Operation Rolling Thunder 
29.

What kind of government did Ho Chi Minh establish?

a)

Communism

b)

Democracy

c)

Socialism

d)

Monarchy

30.
South Vietnamese guerilla fighters; opposed Diem & supplied by Ho Chi Minh
a)
Vietcong
b)
Vietminh
c)
Flying Tigers
d)
Indochinese
31.
What effect did the geography of Vietnam have on fighting during the Vietnam War?
a)
Viet Cong forces took the fightinginto the dense jungles where theycould confuse the Americans.
b)
Viet Cong forces preferred to limitmost fighting to cities where theyfought most effectively.
c)
American forces learned to keepthe fighting away from the jungles.
d)
American forces committed tofighting the war only from the air.
32.

What Vietnamese victory led to the French agreeing to leave Indochina?

a)

Khe Sanh

b)

Phu Quoc

c)

Dien Bien Phu

d)

Du Doc Thien

33.

What US policy strongly influenced US involvement in the Vietnam War?

a)

Domino Theory

b)

Spread Theory

c)

Red Scare

d)

Vietnamization

34.

What type of war did the US face in Vietnam?

a)

terrorism

b)

guerrilla warfare

c)

trench warfare

d)

gentleman's warfare

35.

North Vietnamese offensive which attacked South Vietnamese cities by surprise; marked a turning point in US public opinion against the war.

a)

Battle of Khe Sanh

b)

The Vietcong

c)

Ho Chi Minh Campaign

d)

Tet Offensive

36.

Who won the Vietnam War?

a)

North Vietnam

b)

South Vietnam

c)

China

d)

United States

37.

The genocide of artists, monks, gov’t officials, and other educated individuals by Pol Pots communist regime in Cambodia is known as the -

a)

Ethnic Cleansing

b)

Final Solution

c)

Great Purge

d)

Cambodian Genocide

38.
League of the Independence of Vietnam and they wanted Communist independence from France
a)
Vietminh
b)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
c)
Paris Peace Talks
d)
New Left
39.
Gave Johnson almost complete control of armed forced in Vietnam
a)
Geneva Accords
b)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
c)
Vietnamization
d)
Agent Orange
40.
Nixon's 1969 policy for removing American forces and replacing them with South Vietnamese soldiers to continue fighting
a)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
b)
silent majority
c)
MIA
d)
Vietnamization
41.
1968 negotiations to end the war between US & North Vietnam
a)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
b)
Paris Peace Talks
c)
Tet Offensive
d)
silent majority