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Cold War Unit-- US History
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1
What nation did NOT have a security zone in former Germany after WWII?
Poland
USSR
Britain
France
2
Who was the leader of the North Vietnamese Communists?
Richard Nixon
Ngo Dinh Diem
Syngman Rhee
Ho Chi Minh
3
What was the primary goal of the FCDA?
Help prepare US citizens for a nuclear attack
Train US citizens to identify subversive behaviors
Recruitment of troops
Keeping US safe by finding Soviet spies
4
The launch of Sputnik inspired what types of clubs in US schools?
FFA
PETA
Space Monkey Clubs
Rocket Clubs
5
What event sped up the arms race between the two superpowers in 1949?
Iron Curtain Speech
Berlin Airlift
Soviets detonating an A-bomb
Sputnik
6
An armed attack on one nation is to be considered an attack on all members. Who followed this?
Axis Powers
Triple Entente
NATO
League of Nations
7
The FCDA created the Bert the Turtle films instructing how to do what?
Drop and Roll
Flip and Flop
Duck and Cover
Run and Hide
8
How did the Soviets respond to the Marshall Plan?
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Stalin plan
Molotov Plan
9
Stalins' goals at Yalta and Potsdam Conferences centered on what?
Est. a buffer zone of Soviet friendly states
Dividing Germany into 3 security zones
Allowing free and open elections
Securing foreign aid from the US
10
What was the fate of Laika, the world's 1st space traveler?
She was adopted by PETA
She died within hours of taking off
She survived and became the pet of Khruschev
She returned to Earth without a tail
11
What committed the US to a policy of containment?
Baruch Plan
None of these
Truman Doctrine
Long Telegram
12
Term used when someone publicly accuses someone falsely
Censure
McCarthyism
Stalinism
Blacklisting
13
When each side builds up its military power, it is with what intent?
Deterrance
All of these
Brinksmanship
To never use it
14
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
US attempt to overthrow Greece
CIA plan to get rid of Castro in Cuba
US attempt to overthrow Khruschev
CIA plan to invade Turkey
15
What nation launched the world's first artificial satellite?
USA
Israel
Japan
USSR
16
Winston Churchill gave a speech about an Iron Curtain. What was he referring to?
The divide between Communism and Monarchies
The divide between Eastern and Western Europe
The divide between North and South Korea
The wall that Trump wants to build
17
What was the purpose of the Iron Curtain speech?
To warn of the growing democratic powers of the west
To help expand communist influence in Western Europe
To warn of the growing Soviet threat of Eastern Europe
To warn of the increasing famine in war-torn nations
18
How did the US discover the missiles in Cuba?
Soviet spies informed the President
All of these
Castro bragged about it in an interview
U2 spy planes found them
19
What gave Greece and Turkey funding to help resist communism?
Monroe Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Containment
Truman Doctrine
20
Nations NOT allied to either superpower were known as:
Nonaligned Nations
Superpowers
Second-tier Nations
Suckers
21
What does the MAD stand for, in terms of the cold war?
Mutually Assured Destruction
Many Ants Dead
Mommy And Daddy
Mutually Actioned Desparation
22
The US began massively spending on education and technology because of what event?
Creation of Warsaw Pact
Sputnik
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviets getting the bomb
23
What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?
Overthrow dictatorships
Promote free elections
Help others resist communism
Push our ways into other nations
24
If one nation fall to communism, then other around it will -- this illustrates what?
Domino Theory
Collectivism
Collapse Theory
Containment
25
What happened to Sen. McCarthy when he was exposed of his lies?
He ran for President
He was awarded the Medal of Freedom
He was kicked out of the Senate
Nothing
26
The Marshall Plan was...
An economic assistance program
A nuclear testing plan
an "open skies" policy
A military assistance program
27
How did the USSR show the rest of the world why we were behind in the race for space?
Treatment towards African-Americans
We didn't have rocket clubs
Very little poverty in the US
US education only focused on non-scientific courses
28
The USSR did not allow their satellite nations to take Marshall Plan money because...?
None of these
It would require them to pay it back
It required those nations to resist communism
It made those nations adopt communism
29
Why did the Soviets reject the Baruch Plan?
None of these
It stopped communism from spreading
It would not allow them to join NATO
It prevented them from obtaining nuclear weapons
30
Which is NOT a way in which Americans protested the Vietnam War?
Burning draft cards
Black armbands to protest war
Sit-ins on college campuses
Watching it on TV each night
31
The Rosenbergs were convicted of selling atomic secrets, therefore committing what?
Brinksmanship
Sedition
McCarthyism
Treason
32
McCarthyism was a period of time where many were accused of what?
Being part of the French Resistance
None of these
Being British spies
Being Soviet spies
33
What nations received aid as a result of the Truman Doctrine?
Greece and France
Egypt and Greece
Turkey and Greece
Turkey and Egypt
34
This helped re-build Europe after WWII and resist the spread of communism
McCarthyism
Marshall Plan
Containment
Truman Doctrine
35
The HUAC investigated what types of people?
Those who worked on the Manhattan Project
Those who engaged in subversive activities
Those who proclaimed to be sympathetic to Israel
Those who worked in Hollywood making foreign films
36
What year did the Cold War end?
1981
1989
1975
1973
37
Soviet "satellite" nations were located where?
Eastern Europe
Eastern Asia
Western Africa
Western Europe
38
What was formed after WWII to prevent future wars and help in times of economic need?
Containment
League of Nations
Marshall Plan
United Nations
39
What was the outcome of the Korean War?
Korea was annexed by China
Korean peninsula remained divided
All of Korea became a democracy
North and South were united into one nation
40
Which of these greatly empowered President Johnson to increase US involvement in Vietnam?
Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam
Operation Rolling Thunder
The Pentagon Papers
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
41
In what year did US involvement in Vietnam officially end (Paris Peace Accords)?
1968
1989
1975
1973
42
US supplying West Berlin with food and fuel for over 11 months in 1947-48 became known as?
Truman Doctrine
Operation Airlift
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
43
Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Khruschev
Kennedy
Batista
Castro
44
What were the names of the two superpower alliances?
Triple Alliance and Triple Entente
NATO and Berlin Axis
Axis Powers and Allies
Warsaw Pact and NATO
45
What did Senator McCarthy accuse those he questioned?
All of these
Being communist spies
Being communist sympathizers
Being anti-American
