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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the topic of the conference in which the Russians agreed to participate in 1958?
(a) Talk about supervision of nuclear weapons testing.
(b) Prisoner exchange.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Space flight.

2. When did the British sign the cease fire in Egypt?
(a) November 5, 1957.
(b) 2 days after Eisenhower was sworn into office.
(c) They never signed a cease fire.
(d) The day of the 1956 presidential election.

3. Who was at the head of Russia in 1958?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Bregnev.
(c) Putin.
(d) Khrushchev.

4. What agency did Eisenhower decide to create?
(a) NASA.
(b) CIA.
(c) SAC.
(d) NORAD.

5. What idea did Eisenhower come up with to try to lower the threat of nuclear war?
(a) Improve U.S. ballistic missiles.
(b) Atoms for Peace.
(c) An international peace treaty.
(d) The Soyouz Appolo missions.

6. What did Eisenhower do in secrecy so as not to attract McCarthy's attention?
(a) Promoted Fermi.
(b) Promoted Oppenheimer.
(c) Removed Oppenheimer from the H bomb project.
(d) Had Oppenheimer exchanged for American agents.

7. Who jumped in the Presidential race of 1969?
(a) Ford.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Kennedy.

8. What did Eisenhower think of a nuclear exchange with the USSR?
(a) NATO could prevent Soviet retaliation.
(b) No one could win.
(c) There was a 54% chance of a first strike destroying the USSR's capacity to retaliate.
(d) The U.S. could prevail with acceptable losses.

9. How did Nixon respond to Eisenhower's request concerning the 1956 election?
(a) He stalled.
(b) He tried to mount Kennedy against Eisenhower.
(c) He accepted.
(d) He refused.

10. Why was the National Guard called in Arkansas in September 1957?
(a) To guard the body of the assassinated governor.
(b) To fight students who were rioting.
(c) The help African American students go to class.
(d) To help block access to Central High School to African American students.

11. What summit took place in July 1955, according to Chapter 16?
(a) The Washington Summit.
(b) The Paris Summit.
(c) The Alger Summit.
(d) The Geneva Summit.

12. What did the U.S. and the Soviets agree on at the end of the summit?
(a) Both countries could be destroyed if nuclear weapons were used.
(b) That they did trust each other.
(c) That France was a loose canon.
(d) That Britain should not take sides for either of them.

13. How many heart attacks did Eisenhower suffer while hospitalized?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

14. What did Eisenhower vow to uphold in the civil rights movement?
(a) The right to segregation.
(b) Supreme Court Ruling.
(c) A state court ruling.
(d) The right to lynching.

15. What did Eisenhower refuse to do, despite Khrushchev's ultimatum?
(a) Remove its nuclear missiles from Turkey.
(b) Decommission half of its bomber fleet.
(c) Decommission its nuclear submarine.
(d) Remove NATO troops from West Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Eisenhower not opposed to, according to Chapter 14?

2. Who did the British agree to turn the canal over to after negotiating with Eisenhower?

3. What was settled at the end of the Summit?

4. What did Eisenhower try to convince Nixon of?

5. What was Eisenhower's son's name?

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