U.S. History B Final Exam 2025

American ground troops were deployed to Cuba.

• True

• False

The world seemed to be on the verge of a “nuclear holocaust.”

• True

• False

President Kennedy ordered a blockade of Cuba.

• True

• False

Soviet Premier Khrushchev offered President Kennedy a deal.

• True

• False

Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared war on the Soviet Union.

• True

• False

The crisis was resolved by the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

• True

• False

What was the Marshall Plan?

• A) A corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that asserted American supremacy in Western Europe.

• B) U.S. Ambassador Phillip Marshall’s proposal for peace between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

• C) A covert CIA plot to overthrow Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev.

• D) The U.S. initiative to help Europe rebuild after World War II.

The Truman Doctrine was a policy of -

• Using small-yield nuclear weapons against America’s communist enemies

• A corollary to the Marshall Plan which added Portugal and Spain to NATO.

• Aiding any country or group fighting against communism in order to stop it from spreading.

• America’s use of the atom bomb against communist revolutionaries on Bikini Atoll.

What would be the BEST caption for the political cartoon above?

• Détente in Europe, Asia, & Africa

• American Containment in Vietnam, 1967 - 1968

• Glasnost Spreads Through Central Asia

• The Domino Theory in Action

The Berlin Airlift was —

• A) A U.S. Air Force project to fly German residents out of East Berlin during Soviet occupation.

• B) A top-secret World War 2 era plan to take over Germany.

• C) The U.S. and the U.K. flying food, fuel, and supplies to Berlin after the Soviets blocked it off.

• D) The German national soccer team that inspired the German people to unite in 1963.