Cold War Quiz Part 2

1. Explain MAD.
2. Put the following leaders in order:
1. Gorbachev
2. Putin
3. Stalin
4. Lenin
5. Khrushchev
3. What was Sputnik and why did it matter?
4. What happened at the Bay of Pigs?
5. How did JFK resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis?
6. Who was Ho Chi Minh?
7. Name one of the consequences of the Vietnam War?
8. Name 3 of the fruits of communism in the Soviet Union which we discussed in class.
9. What is ironic about the U.S. involvement in the Soviet-Afghan War?
10. What was the effect of glasnost on the Soviet Union?
11. Why was it significant that the Soviet Union developed the atomic bomb in 1949?
12. What two foreign countries governed Vietnam prior to the Vietnam War?
13. What is the historical significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
14. What were the Pentagon Papers and why did they matter?