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What is true of Joseph McCarthy?
Tito ruled this country:
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Tito ruled this country:
Poland
Hungary
East Germany
Yugoslavia
2
What is true of Joseph McCarthy?
Called for aid to Greece and Turkey
Said there were communists in the State Department
Died in the electric chair
Was a communist in the State Department
3
Which of the following is true of Harry Truman?
Defeated Communist China
Called for aid to Greece and Turkey
Ended the Korean War
Directed a U2 flight over the USSR
4
3rd country to develop nukes:
France
North Korea
China
Great Britain
5
Who was the first American to go into space?
Yuri Gargarin
Gus Grissom
John Glenn
Alan Shepard
6
What is true of Stalin?
Won the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ruled USSR from 1922-1953
Invaded South Korea
Sent troops across the Yalu
7
What is true of Douglas MacArthur?
Was hailed as a hero when he won the Korean War
Invaded South Korea
Wanted to use nukes in the Korean War
Invaded China
8
Which of these countries turned communist after a Civil War following WWII?
China
Turkey
South Korea
Greece
9
2nd Country to develop nukes:
USA
Great Britain
USSR
China
10
Which is true of Richard Nixon?
Defeated JFK
VP who debated Khrushchev
Shot in Dallas
First man in space
11
Which of these countries received aid from the Truman Doctrine?
Greece
Yugoslavia
Italy
France
12
4th country to develop nukes:
India
Pakistan
France
China
13
Alger Hiss was a communist in the State Department
True
False
14
Which is true of Khrushchev?
First man in space
Invaded South Korea
Ruled Yugoslavia
Produced Gary Powers
15
Which of these events happened after Sputnik was launched?
Tzar Bomba is tested
Hiroshima is destroyed
First H bomb tested
USSR detonates first nuclear weapon
16
Which of the following was NOT a communist country?
North Korea
West Germany
Bulgaria
East Germany
17
The US pulled some nukes out of this country after the Cuban Missile Crisis:
Turkey
Greece
Norway
Cuba
18
Last American to go into space alone
Chuck Yeager
Alan Shepard
John Glenn
Gordo Cooper
19
What country is Imre Nagy associated with?
Russia
West Germany
Poland
Hungary
20
What is true of Fidel Castro?
Wanted Hungarian independence
Invaded South Korea
Shot JFK
Spread Communism to Latin America
21
The Deutsche Mark was introduced in this country causing the Berlin crisis:
East Germany
West Germany
Germany
Austria
22
The USSR mistakenly believed that the US:
Wanted to eliminate communism from the planet
All of the above
Wanted to attack with NATO
Wanted the nuke with the highest yield
23
Which of the following is true of JFK?
Truman's Vice President
First American in Space
Invaded North Vietnam
Signed off on the Bay of Pigs
24
The USA incorrectly believed the USSR wanted to:
Spread communism to Africa
Spread communism to South America
All of the above
Make the world communist
25
Who was the first person to break the sound barrier?
Chuck Yeager
John Glenn
Gus Grissom
Gordo Copper
26
What is true of Kim Il Sung?
Invaded North Vietnam
Invaded North Korea
Invaded South Korea
Invaded South Vietnam
27
Churchill gave the ________ speech
Iron Curtain
Steel Ring
Picket Fence
Concrete Wall
28
Which of the following was NOT a cold war policy of the United States?
MAD
Containment
Gunboat diplomacy
Massive retaliation
29
Chuck Yeager traveled faster than the speed of light
False
True
30
Soviets crushed a revolution in this country in 1956:
Hungary
East Germany
Yugoslavia
Poland
31
What is true of Leonid Brezhnev?
Ruled USSR from 1922-1953
Denounced Stalin
Took power after the Cuban Missile Crisis
First man in space
32
Warsaw is the capital of this country:
Hungary
East Germany
Poland
Russia
33
What is true of Mao Zedong?
Spread communism to Latin America
Sent troops across the Yalu
Died in the electric chair
Invaded Poland
34
Which of the following were created to stop the spread of Communism?
The Marshall Plan
NATO
All of the above
Containment
35
What is true of Yuri Gagarin?
Shot JFK
Broke Sound Barrier
Took power after the Cuban Missile Crisis
First man in space
36
Planes had to fly across this country to reach West Berlin:
Russia
France
East Germany
Poland
