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Origins of the Cold War
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A growth in weapons based on the number of weapons an enemy county has
Arms Race
Space Race
Cold War
2
Who was the leader of The Pink Ladies?
Rizzo
Sandy
Frenchy
3
Which country launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik?
China
United States
North Korea
Soviet Union
4
Young people, many of whom were writers and artists, who disliked the American society
Beats
Boomers
Hippies
5
After WW2, how many zones was Germany divided into?
1
3
5
4
6
Who won the election of 1948?
FDR
Harry S. Truman
Thomas Dewey
John F. Kennedy
7
The movie "Grease" is a
action
documentary
musical
8
Who were the communist that were convicted and executed for passing atomic bomb secrets?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Sacco and Vanzetti
Saban and Malzahn
Penne and Risotto
9
An alliance of nations that attempts to end disputes between countries peacefully.
Yalta Confence
The Big Three
United Nations
10
A sharp increase in the number of American births during the 1950s and 1960s.
Baby Boom
90 Babies
Generation X
80s Baby
11
What was it known as when the U.S. birth rate rose dramatically?
Rocket Births
Baby Boom
Not Listed
Baby Rise
12
What do the shows "I Love Lucy" and "Grease"have in common?
1950s Decade
Both are sitcoms
Both are black and white films
13
The boundary between North and South Korea before the Korean War.
Berlin Wall
38th Parallel
Iron Curtain
14
A foreign policy that attempts to stop the spread of Communism
Blockade
Containment
Prohibit
15
Where was Korea divided?
38th Parallel
41st Parallel
Yalu River
Demilitarized Zone
16
What state was Joseph McCarthy from?
Alabama
Vermont
Wisconsin
Washington
17
What international organization was created after WW2?
Warsaw Pact
United Nations
NATO
League of Nations
18
The Cold War foreign policy designed to "get to the verge without getting into the war"
Brinkmanship
Kamikaze
Arms Race
19
The U.S. and its allies supplied West Berlin from the air. This was known as the
Helicopter
Yalta
Berlin Airlift
Not listed
20
Which communist leader took over China?
Mao Zedong
Kim Jung Un
Hideki Tojo
Not Listed
21
In October 1957 the Soviets launched _________, the world’s first artificial satellite.
Sputnik
Fat Daddy
Apollo11
Little Boy
22
A governmental program that attempted to rid cities of slums
Urban Renewal
Ghetto
Suburbs
23
Which bomb is the most powerful?
Atomic Bomb
Hydrogen Bomb
24
What was the most popular TV sitcom of the 1950s?
Grease
I love Lucy
The Flintstone
Leave it to Beaver
25
The United States occupied South Korea. True or False
TRUE
FALSE
26
What peace keeping international organization was created after WW2?
League of Nations
NATO
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
27
What was the name of the mass-produced suburbs
Hinton Place
Levittown
Suburbia
None of the above
28
The_______________ controlled the Northern part of Korea.
France
Soviet Union
America
Italy
29
What legislation gave money to returning veterans for houses and school?
Marshall Plan
GI Bill or Rights
Veterans Bill
Truman Doctrine
30
What group of people criticized American society?
Levittons
Baby Boomers
Beats
Hippies
31
This was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War
Berlin Blockade
Latitude
38th Parallel
Berlin Airlift
32
Led by _______, the Communists officially established the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Mao Zedong
Stalin
Tojo
Japan military leaders
33
Where did the U.S. and Britain have to airlift supplies?
Munich
East Berlin
West Berlin
Yalta
34
A meeting between the leaders of the Allied powers that resulted in a plan for peace after WW2
Yalta Conference
United Nations
League of Nations
35
President Truman's legislative plan for the nation that included anti-lynching laws
All of the above
New Deal
Fair Deal
Second New Deal
36
What were Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin known as?
The Big Three
The Yalta Three
The Allied Three
None of the above
37
Which General did Harry S. Truman fire?
Erwin Rommel
General Patton
Douglass MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
38
Who stated that an "iron curtain" had descended over Europe?
FDR
Harry Truman
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
39
By the end of the 1950s what percent of American families owned a TV?
25%
80%
90%
50%
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The war crimes trials of Nazi leaders.
Nuremberg Trials
Scandal
Brown vs. Education