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1
What is best known for investigating communism in the film industry?
HUAC
NATO
The UN
The CIA
2
The alliance between the Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War was called
United Nations
NATO
League of Nations
Warsaw Pact
3
What is a global conflict between the USSR and the U.S., marked by an avoidance of direct war?
Berlin airlift
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Space race
4
Who was the leader of the communists in China?
Kim II Sung
Syngman Rhee
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek
5
What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?
Jumpstart Europe's economy
Stop the USSR from spreading democracy
Stop the spread of communism
Deliver Poland to the West
6
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was based on the principle of
isolationism.
collective security.
free trade.
appeasement.
7
What did the Soviet Union set up in response to efforts from the West to reunify Germany?
A Soviet blockade of West Berlin
An atomic bomb
construction of the Berlin Wall
an embargo on wheat to NATO nations
8
The first satellite launched into space was
NCC-1701
Sputnik
Apollo II
Discovery
9
General Douglas MacArthur argued that the Korean War
should be extended into a war against China.
was not a vital American interest.
should be extended into a war against the Soviet Union.
should be limited to Korea.
10
Of the following participants in the Korean War, which fought on the side of the Communists?
the United States
the United Nations
South Korea
China
11
What was the Berlin airlift a response to?
construction of the Berlin wall
reunification of East and West Germany
German development of the atomic bomb
Soviet blockade of West Berlin
12
Since the the 1950s, the false and unsupported accusations of a person's actions is now called?
brinkmanship
containment
McCarthyism
infiltration
13
Which of the following was NOT a member of NATO?
France
Britain
United States
Soviet Union
14
Who was the leader of the Communists in China?
Mao Zedong
Syngman Rhee
Chiang Kai-shek
Kim Il Sung
15
Although Mao won the hearts of Chinese peasants, he failed to win U.S. support because he
was a Nationalist.
was a Communist.
had cooperated with Japan during World War II.
was corrupt.
16
The 38th parellel became an important dividing line between
China and Taiwan(Formosa).
North and South China.
Korea and China.
North and South Korea.
17
After World War II, Germany was split in four by the United States, Great Britain, France and
Germany
Soviet Union
Italy
Spain
