Kennedy and the Cold War — Unit test

Question 1

Jonas Salk became well known in the early 1950s because he

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developed a vaccine that virtually eliminated polio from American society.

Question 2

How did the police respond to protestors at the Democratic National Convention in 1968?

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by setting up barriers and attacking the protestors who resisted them

Question 3

Which of the following is a characteristic of a whistle-stop campaign?

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short campaign speeches given by a politician from a train

Question 4

Americans who supported the Vietnam War were called

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hawks.

Question 5

The Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was designed to prevent

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people and supplies from entering or leaving West Berlin.

Question 6

In 1965, President Johnson immediately used the authority of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to

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begin sustained bombing of North Vietnam.

Question 7

The arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union began when

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the Soviet Union developed its own atomic bomb.

Question 8

By 1968, a majority of Americans

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believed that the Vietnam War was a mistake.

Question 9

Why did the system of government in the Soviet Union help to create conflict with the United States after World War II?

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The Soviet system of government did not allow its people to choose their own leaders, which the United States thought was wrong.

Question 10

What was the “missile gap” identified in the 1950s?

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The USSR, according to a report, was ahead in ICBM technology.

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