Social Studies final - cold war
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The foreign policy followed by the majority of U.S. president during the Cold War was:
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The G.I. Bill helped spur the growing economy in the U.S. in the 1950's by
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During the Cold war, the two "superpowers" of the world fought in many proxy wars, which are:
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Following WWII Winston Churchill warned the U.S. of the "Iron Curtain" descending on Europe, which came to be:
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Major legacies of Eisenhower's presidency within the U.S. include the following EXCEPT
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During & after the Korean war, The peninsula was split between the north and south at the
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During the 1950's, America's economy boomed, helped by all of the following concepts EXCEPT?
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The Space race began between the U.S. and USSR following:
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In Eisenhower's farewell speech, he warned of a growing military industrial complex in the U.S., which was
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Which technology helped JFK gained a slight edge of support due to his display on it in the 1960 election?
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Kennedy's Inaugural Address focused much of its attention on:
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Kennedy supported the Civil Rights movement during his presidency by doing all the following EXCEPT:
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What did the Nuclear Ban Treaty of 1963 do?
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The Warren Report was unsuccessful in refuting the American public's concerns around JFK's assassination because:
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Became the youngest elected U.S. president. He established many major changes in the US, including overseeing the space race & tense political actions such as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964.
The Communist leader of Cuba, who encouraged the USSR to use Cuba to store nuclear weapons and aim them at the United States.
According to US government investigations, he was the sniper who assassinated President JFK in Dallas, TX.
American who (with his wife) was accused, sentenced, convicted, and killed for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
Senator who tasked himself with investigating Americans suspected of having ties to Communism, creating the second "Red Scare".
34th president of the United States, campaigned on ending the war in Korea and maintaining peace with USSR during the Cold War
American astronaut who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969.
American initiative to help Western Europe after the devastation from WWII, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of August 2015) in economic support.
This effort brought in supplies to part of Germany that was cut off from supply lines due to a Soviet Blockade meant to unify the country and unite it all under Soviet control.
The large increase in the number of babies born following World War II and starting of new families
The time when people labeled others as communists due to fear of being called communists themselves. led by senator Joseph McCarthy.
U.S. research and development program during that produced the first nuclear weapons.
A failed CIA operation in the country of Cuba in 1961, aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's communist government
Competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
The 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba.
Creating assistance that helped veterans and their families pay for college, graduate school, and training programs
Wars fought between groups or smaller countries that each represent the interests of other larger powers
The symbolic boundary separating the western free countries of Europe from Eastern countries under the control of the USSR
Alliance between 10 European Countries, USA, & Canada, to prevent further spread of communism & protection of western Europe
The first successful trip to the moon
The launch of Sputnik 1 by the USSR
Influence of private business promoting government spending on military for their own profits
Civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States
Encouraging the new generation of Americans to create an era of peace during the Cold War
Using U.S. Marshals to protect students admitted to desegregated schools
Banned all tests of nuclear weapons on ground, water or space, with over 100 countries signing the agreement
The evidence provided did not link Oswald to the killing of JFK
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