What is the iron curtain?

Dividing line between Eastern and Western Europe

How did the Korean War begin?

North Korea invaded South Korea

What was the purpose of Mutually Assured Destruction?

Prevent the enemy from using nuclear weapons

What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?

Provide military support to Middle East to prevent communism

Why did the Soviets build the Berlin Wall?

To keep East Germans from leaving

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1
What is the iron curtain?
Dividing line between Eastern and Western Europe
dividing line between Poland and USSR
Dividing line in Vietnam
Dividing line in Korea
2
Created between the White House and Kremlin after the Cuban Missile Crisis
Satellite connection
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Kremlin Treaty
Hot line
3
Truman's foreign policy
arms race
Containment
Massive retaliation
Flexible response
4
What does the term McCarthyism mean?
Being loyal to the USSR
Calling them soft on communism
Being loyal to the USA
Making unsupported accusations
5
How did the Korean War begin?
South Korea invaded North Korea
North Korea invaded South Korea
Japan invaded Korea
China developed an atomic bomb
6
What alliance organization did the USSR create?
NATO
SEATO
UN
Warsaw
7
What was the purpose of Mutually Assured Destruction?
Prevented large stockpile of nuclear weapons
Prevent the enemy from using nuclear weapons
Stopped both countries from admitting they had weapons
Kept US & USSR on friendly terms
8
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Aid package to other nations
Helped to rebuild Japan
Military aid package to other nations
Ending the American-Anglo Alliance
9
How did most American feel about the Korean War at the end of the war?
Against it
Indifferent
Supported it
Most Americans did not care
10
How did the Bay of Pigs Invasion make the USA appear?
Peaceful
Incompetent
Aggressive
Timid
11
How did the USSR react to Hungarian revolts?
Did not allow Hungary to participate in Olympics
Free elections
Dropped an atomic bomb
Brutal crackdown
12
Who did the US try to overthrow in the Bay of Pigs?
Douglas MacArthur
Fidel Castro
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
13
Symbol that divided Berlin
38th parallel
17th parallel
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
14
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
Formed the CIA
Created alliance with Egypt
Provide military support to Middle East to prevent communism
Gave money to Egypt to build dam
15
Civil Defense film to protect against nuclear attack
Duck and Cover
CIA
Bob & Weave
Fallout Shelters
16
If one nation falls to communism, other around it will fall
Shuffle board theory
Eisenhower Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
Domino Theory
17
Limited the amount of nuclear weapons tested
brinkmanship
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Hot line
M.A.D.
18
Kennedy's foreign policy
Massive retaliation
Flexible Response
brinkmanship
containment
19
What is the time period in which Americans feared the communist threat?
Cape Fear
Red Terror
Red Scare
Red Fear
20
What does it mean to blacklist someone?
Create a list of names with black pen
Kick them out of their house
Paint black paint on their door
Prevent them finding a job
21
What happened to Eastern Europe after WWII?
Controlled by Germany
Controlled by USA
UN controlled
Controlled by USSR
22
How did Kennedy prevent the completion of missile sites in Cuba?
Diplomacy
Embargo against Cuba
The Quarantine
Invasion of Cuba
23
Why did the Soviets build the Berlin Wall?
To keep Americans out
To keep East Germans from leaving
As part of the decision made by the UN
To maintain peaceful relations
24
Eisenhower's foreign policy
Containment
Flexible Reponse
Duck and Cover
Massive retaliation
25
Geographic dividing line between North and South Korea
Iron Curtain
17th parallel
Berlin Wall
38th parallel

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