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COLD WAR REVIEW!
COLD WAR REVIEW!
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1
C.I.A stands for “Covert Investigative Association”.
True
False
2
Veterans of WW II.
Castro
Kennedy
Khrushchev
3
The Soviet Union’s answer to N.A.T.O was
the Berlin Wall.
the Warsaw Pact.
the Aid to Families of Dependent Children Act.
the Berlin Airlift.
4
Truman felt it necessary to
promote
General MacArthur for his bravery and cooperation after the Korean War.
True
False
5
Willing to sacrifice whole country to punish America.
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Castro
6
Which of the following presidents ended the Korean War during his term in office?
Truman
Roosevelt
Kennedy
Eisenhower
7
To escape Communist oppression, Germans in the 1950’s tried to flee from West to East Berlin.
False
True
8
The Bay of Pigs invasion occurred
before
the Cuban Missile Crisis.
False
True
9
Sputnik
is the term used to describe...
a Communist manifesto.
a Russian potato farmer.
a 184 lb. Soviet satellite.
the first Russian monkey to reach the moon.
10
Truman’s response to the Soviet’s closing of roads leading into Berlin was to
order the Berlin Airlift.
destroy the Berlin Wall.
encourage France and Great Britain to attack East Berlin.
call on U.N. troops to remove the blockade.
11
Participated in violent bike "game" as teenager!
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Castro
12
Communist leaders.
Kennedy
Castro
Khrushchev
13
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N.A.T.O) was established to
provide aid to Asian countries.
aid the German economy.
check Soviet aggression in Western Europe.
negotiate with the Soviet Union.
14
The general in charge of the U.N. forces during the Korean War was
Gen. William Westmoreland
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gen. Robert McNamara
None of the above.
15
After WW II ended,
the U.S. and the Soviet Union formed a new alliance.
the Soviet Union took control of Germany.
the Soviet Union dominated all of Europe.
the U.S. and the Soviet Union became the world’s dominant powers.
16
Critics called President Eisenhower’s policy of never backing down from the Communists
isolationism.
limited war.
containment.
brinksmanship.
17
Which of the following is considered by some to be “the most dangerous two weeks” of the Cold War era?
the Suez Canal seizure.
the Cuban Missile Crisis.
the Bay of Pigs.
the Korean conflict.
18
Grew up poor and uneducated.
Khrushchev
Castro
Kennedy
19
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan both...
used the threat of military force to gain foreign cooperation.
reduced racial discrimination.
helped to end the Cold War.
gave economic aid to nations to help them resist communism.
20
Fidel Castro’s existing popularity in Cuba contributed to the
failure
of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
False
True
