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1
Who became the leader of the Soviet Union when Joseph Stalin died?
Nikita Khrushchev
Lavrentiy Beria
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Lenin
2
What are characteristics of a capitalist country?
Private enterprise & Free speech
Government-owned enterprise & censorship
3
What does MAD stand for?
Mutual Anti Detonation
Mutually Assured Destruction
Maximum Allowed Destruction
Mass Acceleration Dissasembly
4
Who was the American politician who accused many celebrities of being a Communist with no proof
Joseph McCarthy
Harry Truman
Joseph Stalin
Franklin Roosevelt
5
Why did East Germany become a separate country from West Germany?
The Soviet Union wanted it to be communist
democratic countries didn't want E Germany to be democratic
allies wanted Germany to remain separated
the United Nations forced them to
6
What two countries were most involved in the Arms Race during the Cold War?
USA and USSR
Germany and the Soviet Union
Japan and Canada
France and Germany
7
When Fidel Castro became the president of Cuba, Cuba became an ally of what country?
Soviet Union
United States
Germany
Vietnam
8
American leaders developed a policy of ____ to resist and stop Soviet aggression.
isolationism
massive retaliation
containment
mutually assured destruction
9
The _____ was a program of European economic recovery after World War II.
Marshall Plan
NATO
The New Deal
The Truman Doctrine
10
Why was the Berlin Wall built?
to convince East Germans to become communists
to keep people in West Berlin from joining the communists
to keep people from escaping communism
to keep the Americans from reaching East Germany
11
The Cold War was a struggle between?
Communism and Democracy
USA and Russia
North vs South
freedom and free enterprise
12
The _____ was a Cold War policy that pledged U.S. support for free peoples resisting communism.
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Red Scare
Marshall Plan
13
After the Yalta Conference, what country is divided into a communist and a non-communist nation
Germany
Korea
Soviet Union
Vietnam
14
What were the 2 opposing pacts that began at the beginning of the cold war?
NATO & UN
NORAD & NATO
NATO & WARSAW
WARSAW & Truman Doctrine
15
__was a military alliance formed by the US, Canada,& European nations following World War II
The League of Nations
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Warsaw Pact•
The United Nations
16
What event put the U.S. on the brink of nuclear war in the early 1960s?
Bay of Pigs
U-2 Crisis
Sputnik
Cuban Missile Crisis
17
The easing of relations between the East and West in the Cold War was termed...
Deterrence
Brinkmanship
Containment
Detente
18
According to the ____, if one country fell to communism, others would soon follow.
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Domino Theory
Containment Theory
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True or False? The Iron Curtain was an actual wall built...
True
False
20
Which country had the most influence in Eastern Europe - east of the Iron Curtain?
America
France
Soviet Union
Britain
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The Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan were examples of _____
containment policy
Eisenhower’s domino theory
the arm’s race
communist ideology
