Oversimplified Cold War Part II

Why was the Bay of Pigs an international disaster for President Kennedy?

• The United States-trained Cuban exiles failed in trying to overthrow the Cuban communist regime.

• The United States had an economic crisis because they paid for the Cuban revolutionaries' weapons.

How did the Kennedy Administration respond to the Soviets sending weapons to Cuba?

• The United States launched a military invasion at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.

• The United States imposed a naval blockade around Cuba.

What is the premise of the United States's global policy of MAD?

• The USA & USSR will not attack one another out of fear of mutually assured destruction.

• The USA & USSR will resolve all potential military conflicts through mutually assured diplomacy.

What is the premise of the United States's global policy of the Domino Theory?

• The Domino Theory is a strategy to promote democracy in neighboring countries by providing potential NATO members with weapons of mass destruction.

• If one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall to communism so the United States should intervene.

How would the USA and the USSR typically fight each other during the Cold War?

• They would provide humanitarian aid to one another to prevent revolutionary groups from overthrowing their governments.

• They would fund differing political sides in countries struggling to develop legitimate governments.

How did President Nixon change Cold War relations with the Soviet Union?

• He was the first President to visit Russia during the Cold War.

• He was the first President to freeze international funding of the Cold War.

How did US diplomacy with China change during the Nixon Administration?

• The US established Ping Pong Diplomacy engaging in games with the foreign nation.

• The US cut off political ties with China and funded a Soviet invasion of the Asian nation.

What is the premise of Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program?

• It would prevent nuclear weapons from entering the United States airspace.

• It would research new stealth technologies to spy on Soviet airspace.

What happened in Germany leading to the decline of the Cold War?

• The Congress of Berlin met and decided to cut ties with both the Soviet Union and the United States.

• The fall of the Berlin Wall reunited Germany leading to a decline of Soviet European influence.

How did Soviet global influence change during the leadership of Boris Yeltsin?

• The USSR dissolved and the eastern bloc nations became independent governments.

• The USA decided to invade Moscow to take advantage of the fall of Soviet democracy.