Cold War

Question 1

Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the United States’ policy of containment?

proxy wars
McCarthyism
Cuban Missile Crisis
the Fair Deal

Answer 1

fair deal ????

Question 2

The “cooling off” period of the Cold War was called the Detente. Which 2 men were presidents during this time?

Answer 2

carter and nixon

Question 3

Which answer best explains the House Un-American Committee?

Answer 3

a group in Congress that accused people of communism and blacklisted them

Question 4

Which FBI program was created to expose and dismantle communist organizations in the United States?

Answer 4

COINTELPRO

Question 5

What policy did the Immigration Act of 1965 overturn?

Answer 5

quota system

Question 6

A command economy is a key component of which economic model?

Answer 6

communis

Question 7

Which of the following was the Soviet Union’s response to the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

Answer 7

warsaw pact

Question 8

Communism and Capitalism are two different types of…

Answer 8

economic models

Question 9

Which of the following factors did NOT contribute to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War?

Answer 9

people to people program

Question 10

Which term is the Soviet Reform of economic reform that eased Soviet control of the economy and created more opportunities for western brands to enter Soviet markets?

Answer 10

perestroika

Question 11

Which answer best explains the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 11

a policy to contain communism in the countries that it already existed in so it did not spread to developing nations

Question 12

Which of the following was NOT one of Reagan’s policies?

Answer 12

increase taxes

Question 13

Which of the following events or policies did NOT happen during the Second Red Scare at the beginning of the Cold War?

Answer 13

soviet-afghan

Question 14

President John F. Kennedy was known for his diplomatic solution to the 13-day stand-off between the US and the USSR known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. What was the solution?

Answer 14

a treaty that the USSR would remove its nuclear weapons from Cuba and the US would remove its weapons from Turkey

Question 15

Which president was responsible to escalating American involvement in the Vietnam War?

Answer 15

Johnson

Question 16

The containment policy was put into place to prevent the spread of communism to other countries that weren’t communist; it was not a policy of abolishing communism in communist countries. In the Cuban Missile Crisis, there was fear of the Soviets and the Americans dropping atomic bombs on each other after the realization that nuclear weapons were found in Cuba. These two ideas relate to each other because they both demonstrate how America wanted to contain Soviet ideologies and weaponry in Soviet territory and not someplace else that could be convinced to partake in communism.

Answer 16

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