7.5B USH Group Study Questions Name______
1. Who became the leader of Cuba during the Cold War? What country supported this new leader?
2. Describe the Bay of Pigs invasion. (Remember: The CIA is an United States organization.) Was it a success?
3. What effect did the Bay of Pigs invasion have on President Kennedy?
4. In the fall of 1963, American spyplanes photographed nuclear missle sites being built in Cuba. What country was building them?
5. What did President Kennedy do to Cuba when he found out about the nuclear missile sites?
6. The situation described was the closest that the Soviet Union came to armed conflict during the Cold War. What was this situation called?
7. What is the Kremlin?
8. What efforts were made to avoid nuclear war after the Cuban Missile Crisis?
9. Why did the United States want to get involved in the Middle East during the 1970s and 1980s?
10. There has been an ongoing conflict between Israel and Arab nations. Which side did the U.S. take? Which side did the Soviets take?
11. Where did the Eisenhower Doctrine extend containment to?
12. Why did the United States want to stop the OPEC oil embargo in the 1970s? What is an embargo?
13. ***What was the United States trying to accomplish in the Camp David Accords?
14. Does the United States have a good relationship with Iran today?
15. Describe the Camp David Accords.
16. What were the 4 reasons that the Cold War ended?
17. What was the most important symbol of the Cold War? Did this event mark the end of the Cold War?
18. Describe the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.
19. The Taliban and al Qaeda, the groups that were involved in 9/11, do NOT like Israel. Do you think that this will cause these groups to NOT like the United States?