The Cold War and the Space Race - Page 4

Questions
  • What was the conclusion of the Warren Commission?
  • What was the name of the U.S. policy that aimed to slow the spread of Communism in the world?
  • What were Lyndon B. Johnson's most significant foreign policy concerns?
  • Why was Lyndon Johnson important to John F. Kennedy's victory in 1960?
  • Why was the Warren Commission created in November 1963?
  • What was General MacArthur willing to expand in an effort to bring an end to communism in Asia?
  • How did the Soviet Union respond to the U.S. policy of brinkmanship?
  • Why is President Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis considered one of his greatest accomplishments?
  • How did the Communist takeover of China and the Soviet explosion of an atomic bomb affect the United States?
  • What were Nixon's meetings with Soviet leaders called that discussed the limitation of strategic arms?
  • What were the goals of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan?
  • What was Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative?
  • During the Cold War what were a lot of civilians in the United States building? Why?
  • In what year did two United States astronauts land on the moon?
  • What increased fear of the Soviet Union in the United States in 1956?
  • Why did the United States and the Soviet Union install a "hot line" telephone system?
  • Why did JFK state that we would have a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s?
  • How do you the events of 1949 would affect think the U.S. policy toward communism in the future?
  • Which technology played an integral role in the 1960 election?
  • Who was the president at the end of the Cold War?