The Cold War and the Space Race U.S. History Modern America and Conflict The Cold War and the Space Race Questions Which regions of the country supported Kennedy? Which regions supported Nixon? What was the effect of William F. Buckley’s magazine national review? Do you think the United States still participates in the "space race"? What evidence did Joseph McCarthy present to prove that Communists inside the United States did more to spread communism around the world than Communists abroad? Who was the first northern Democrat elected to the presidency since 1968? How did the Cold War further the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy? How did his career end? How did the GI Bill of Rights affect veterans and the U.S. economy? How did the early Cold War affect life in the US? Which three main candidates ran in the 1948 Presidential election? What was Nixon's "Southern strategy"? George Marshall said his plan was "Directed against hunger. poverty, desparation and chaos". So why did the USSR refuse Marshall Aid? Why do you think most Americans went along with Eisenhower's conservative approach to domestic policy? What were the circumstances of President Richard Nixon's resignation from office? Why did the U.S. support Saddam Hussein and lraq in the war against Iran in the 1980s? Who became the first and only person to become president without being elected to either the office of president or vice president? What did Congress raise the minimum hourly wage to during Kennedy's term? What was the name of the U.S. policy that aimed to slow the spread of Communism in the world? Who did most people expect to win the Presidential Election of 1948? Who was Harry Truman? Why didn't all Democrats support Harry Truman in 1948? What effect did détente have on Soviet-U.S. relations? How did the Truman Doctrine affect the Cold War? What was the Truman Doctrine? Why did some oppose this strategy? What is The Truman Doctrine? Please explain briefly, thanks? What were Lyndon B. Johnson's most significant foreign policy concerns? Why was Lyndon Johnson important to John F. Kennedy's victory in 1960? What was the conclusion of the Warren Commission? What theory was used by the United States government to justify intervention in many countries around the world during the Cold War? Why was the Warren Commission created in November 1963? What was the purpose of the Apollo program? What effect did the Soviet Union's sending a man into space in 1961 have on President Kennedy? When did the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba occur? The U.S. policy of "containment'' aimed to contain what? What is the nuclear arms race? What was General MacArthur willing to expand in an effort to bring an end to communism in Asia? How did brinkmanship lead to an arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union? During which event was the world closest to nuclear war during the Cold War? The period of time during the 1920s when there was a fear of Communism growing in the United States was known as what? The cold war was between the United States and what country? What U.S. actions led Fidel Castro to believe he was in danger of being invaded? Why did the Soviet Union decide to send missiles to Cuba? Why did many people in the United States and Europe held protests related to the Rosenbergs trial ? According to the domino theory, why would neighboring nations be vulnerable to the spread of communism ? After the U2 incident, Eisenhower believed it was necessary to employ a policy of brinkmanship against which world leader? In 1950, approximately how many Americans were members of the Communist party (including those who were undercover FBI agents)? After his reelection in 1948, who or what kept Truman from enacting any significant initiatives that were part of his Fair Deal? What was an effect of the Termination Policy? What was President Eisenhower's stated policy for deterring a Soviet nuclear strike? Why dd the United States and the Soviets end up on opposite sides of the Cold War? What was President Johnson able to do that President Kennedy had failed to do? What U.S. action in 1948 inflamed Arab resentment to the United States? Question #8afd2 What did President Ronald Reagan believe about economic growth? Question #ae3a8 Why do you think President Truman believed that poverty and suffering created conditions in which communism might spread? Why was the Soviet development of satellite so significant to the people of the United States? Question #2ed29 Why did Cuba want Soviet support? Question #924db What is one success of the American Foreign Policy from 1945-1980 ? What idea was the major justification for U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War era? What was the U.S. response to the Soviet Union placing missiles in Cuba? What event put the U.S. on the brink of nuclear war in the early 1960s? Why did the U.S. and Soviet Union think success at the Olympics was important? When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik I satellite in 1957, what did many Americans fear? What Cold War institution continued into the 1990s and beyond because of close ties between the government and business? What were Americans afraid of during the Red Scare of the 1950s? What was the primary motivation behind the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War? What were Nixon's policies toward China and the Soviet Union? Why were they so surprising at the time? What lead to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy? What was the goal of the U.S. policy of containment in the years following World War II? Why do you think Kennedy decided to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey? What was the United States' goal in the space race? How wiykd you describe Reagan's foreign policies toward the Cold War? Joseph McCarthy always appeared before television cameras with loose sheets of paper, which he could wave at the camera and claim contained the names of what persons? How did Joseph McCarthy gained public attention? Question #57b5f What heightened American fears of communism at the beginning of the cold war? Modern America and Conflict View all chapters America and World War I America and World War II The Cold War and the Space Race Vietnam War Korean War Social Movements in America African American History and Movements Prev Next