Cold War Presidents

This incident referenced in the picture was most likely the result of which of the following?

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Berlin Wall

• Cuban Revolution

Which president? New Frontier in Space and Social Justice

• Kennedy

• Johnson

• Reagan

• Eisenhower

Which president? Gulf of Tonkin Resolution escalated US involvement in Vietnam to a military scale.

• Eisenhower

• Kennedy

• Johnson

• Nixon

Which president? His brinkmanship approach to the Cold War proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (dubbed "Star Wars" by his critics).

• Bush

• Reagan

• Nixon

• Ford

Which president? His Interstate Highway System's purpose was to eliminate congestion and provide a fast and safe way to escape nuclear attacks.

• Truman

• Eisenhower

• Reagan

• Kennedy

Which president? "The Buck Stops Here" - he took the initiative to create a three stool approach to containing communism.

• Truman

• Eisenhower

• Kennedy

• Johnson

Which president? He believed that communism needed to be stopped in Asia before more countries in Asia fall to communism. He referred to this as the Domino Theory,

• Truman

• Eisenhower

• Nixon

• Kennedy

Which president? Even though he wanted to focus on surpassing the Soviets in space, he was bogged down with events in Cuba and Berlin.

• Johnson

• Reagan

• Kennedy

• Truman

Which president? While Kennedy was the first to sent troops to Vietnam, Johnson escalated the fighting in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, however, this president brought the US involvement in Vietnam to a complete end.

• Ford

• Nixon

• Carter

• Bush

Which president? Vietnamization to bring the Vietnam War to an end but bombed Laos and Cambodia.

• Johnson

• Kennedy

• Carter

• Nixon