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Cold War - Chapter 12
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1
This line of latitude separated North and South Korea.
18th parallel
38th parallel
17th parallel
37th parallel
2
Who was the leader of the Communist forces within China?
Sing Moon Bay
Mao Zedong
Jiang Jieshi
Kim Ill Sung
3
Who won the Korean War?
China
South Korea
North Korea
No one, it ended basically where it began
4
Democratic Allies managed to give Aid/food/supplies to West Berlin through the use of
Underground Tunnels
Railways
Armored Trucks
Airlifts
5
The North Koreans started the Korean War by crossing
The Yalu River
The 17th Parrallel
The 38th Parallel
The Yellow River
6
A disagreement over this country worsened post war relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R
Italy
Russia
Poland
Japan
7
What term is given to countries that are controlled by the Soviet Union?
Satellite States
Arms Race
HUAC
Sputnik
8
He was an American Government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948
Sen. McCarthy
Dwight Eisenhower
Elthel Rosenberg
Alger Hiss
9
The United States offered $400 million dollars to Greece and Turkey through this program
Eisenhower Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Monroe Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
10
What event on September 2, 1949 drastically shifted the balance of world power?
the U.S. discovered the Soviet Union set off an atomic bomb
China and U.S.S.R combined their armies and declared war
Joseph Stalin died leaving the Soviet Union without a leader
an A-bomb accidentally released plutonium in the atmosphere
11
If the United States and Soviet Union broke out in a war, there would have been:
Little damage to the world
Immediate peace talks
Mutually Assured Destruction
Containment
12
Who led the United Nation's forces in Korea?
Clement Atlee
George Patton
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
13
Alger Hiss's crimes were especially startling because he
Was a member of the military
Worked for the secretary of Education
Had spent extensive time in China
Had Access to confidential government information
14
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
A representative from Washington
A representative from West Virginia
A senator from Wisconsin
A president in the 1950's
15
This announced the US would use force to help any Middle East country threatened by communism
Smith Act
Truman Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
Marshall Plan
16
The United States gave Europe $13 billion dollars through this program
Truman Doctrine
Monroe Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Eisenhower Doctrine
17
Left wing writers and producers in Hollywood who were investigated by HUAC were nicknamed what?
The Hollywood Ten
Reds
Blacklist
The Undesireables
18
In order to keep communism in its existing boundaries, “X” advocated a policy known as
containment
confirmation.
appeasement
boundaryship
19
What is the name given for the 46 year struggle between the United States and Soviet Union?
Operation Overlord
Cold War
Korean War
Operation Desert Storm
20
Who gave the speech saying "an Iron Curtain has descended upon Eastern Europe."
Jameis Winston
Winston Chruchill
Whitney Houston
President Truman
21
Julius/Ethel Rosenberg were _____ for conspiring to send secret nuclear information to U.S.S.R.
sentenced to death
sent to Siberia
sentenced 5 years in jail
Expelled from United States
22
When Joseph Stalin died, this man took over as the leader of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbechev
Vladamir Putin
Nikita Krushchev
23
The US foreign policy that suggests if a country falls to communism, others around it will fall
The Domino Theory
Containment
Marshall Plan
The Butterfly Effect
24
Einstein opposed developing the H-bomb stating it would lead to this:
Arms Race
Red Scare
Iron Curtain
Vietnam War
25
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union created
a hydrogen bomb
HUAC
Warsaw Pact
SEATO
26
This law made it illegal to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government
Hawley-Smoot Act
McCarren Act
Taft-Hartley Act
Smith Act
27
Members of the HUAC charged numerous Hollywood figures with
being sympathetic to communist ideas
Promoting anti-Semitism
avoiding the issue of racism
spying for the Soviet Union