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1
Who was the leader of the communists in China?
Syngman Rhee
Mao Zedong
Kim II Sung
Chiang Kai-shek
2
Who was defeated in the Chinese civil War despite 2 billion dollars in aid from the U.S.?
Nationalists
socialists
Communists
Soviets
3
The alliance between the Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War was called
Warsaw Pact
United Nations
League of Nations
NATO
4
What is a global conflict between the USSR and the U.S., marked by an avoidance of direct war?
Space race
Cold War
Berlin airlift
Truman Doctrine
5
What are border nations between the USSR and the West serving as a buffer zone called?
Satellite Nations
Iron Curtain
States
Stalin’s Wall
6
After World War II, Germany was split in four by the United States, Great Britain, France and
Italy
Spain
Soviet Union
Germany
7
Who is best known for investigating communism in the film industry?
The UN
The CIA
HUAC
NATO
8
How did the U.S. respond to the Soviet's first explosion of the atomic bomb?
by exploding an atomic bomb
By forming NATO
by firing satellite into space.
by exploding a hydrogen bomb
9
The 38th parellel became an important dividing line between
North and South China.
China and Taiwan(Formosa).
North and South Korea.
Korea and China.
10
Although Mao won the hearts of Chinese peasants, he failed to win U.S. support because he
had cooperated with Japan during World War II.
was a Nationalist.
was a Communist.
was corrupt.
11
Which of the following was NOT a member of NATO?
Britain
United States
Soviet Union
France
12
Who was the leader of the Nationalists in China?
Kim Il Sung
Syngman Rhee
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek
13
Since the the 1950s, the false and unsupported accusations of a person's actions is now called?
containment
McCarthyism
brinkmanship
infiltration
14
What was Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel convicted of?
aiding the launch of Sputnik
destroying U.S. plans for the Hydrogen Bomb
passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
containing Communism
15
The first satellite launched into space was
Sputnik
Apollo II
Discovery
NCC-1701
16
Who appeared to be winning the Korean War until China actively entered the conflict?
North Korean
Communists
Nationalists
South Koreans
17
Of the following participants in the Korean War, which fought on the side of the Communists?
the United Nations
Souht Korea
China
the United States
18
Who was the Soviet Premier who initiated peristroika and glasnost?
Gorbachev
Reagan
Putin
Yeltsin
19
What principle was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) based on?
appeasement
collective security
free trade
isolationism
20
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was based on the principle of
collective security.
free trade.
appeasement.
isolationism.
21
What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?
Stop the USSR from spreading democracy
Jumpstart Europe's economy
Stop the spread of communism
Deliver Poland to the West
22
General Douglas MacArthur argued that the Korean War
was not a vital American interest.
should be extended into a war against the Soviet Union.
should be limited to Korea.
should be extended into a war against China.
23
What did the Soviet Union set up in response to efforts from the West to reunify Germany?
A Soviet blockade of West Berlin
construction of the Berlin Wall
An atomic bomb
an embargo on wheat to NATO nations
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What was the Berlin airlift a response to?
Soviet blockade of West Berlin
German development of the atomic bomb
construction of the Berlin wall
reunification of East and West Germany