The Cold War and the Space Race - Page 3
Questions
- Why was the Soviet development of satellite so significant to the people of the United States?
- Why did Cuba want Soviet support?
- 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 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 goal of the U.S. policy of containment in the years following World War II?
- 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?
- Why do you think Kennedy decided to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey?
- What was the United States' goal in the space race?
- How did Joseph McCarthy gained public attention?
- 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"?
- Who was the first northern Democrat elected to the presidency since 1968?