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CPUSH Unit 14: The Cold War
CPUSH Unit 14: The Cold War
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The cold war
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1
The term beatnik originally meant
An addict or junkie
A communist
A hustler or thief
A prostitute
2
Jackie Robinson desegregated
The Army
The Montgomery Bus System
Education
Baseball
3
The Rosenbergs were executed because they planned to
Assassinate the President
Sabatage the Space Race
Spy on the US Army for Russia
Help steal plans for the Atomic Bomb
4
Blacklists were secret lists that contained the names of suspected
Nazis
Communists
Anarchists
Fascists
5
Eastern European nations dependent on the Russians for protection and money were known as
Satellite nations
Colonial nations
Red nations
Dependent nations
6
The major difference between Yalta and Potsdam was the fact that at Potsdam
Stalin had taken over
The Nazis had been defeated already
The US had the atomic bomb
FDR was still president
7
Jonas Salk helped to invent a vaccine for which disease?
Polio
Mumps
Measles
Rubella
8
The concept behind containment was that communism would die out if
It could not spread
It was met with a superior force
It was denied military power
It was exposed to the world
9
Philo Farnsworth was the teenager who gets credit for the creation of
Penicillin
Computers
Nuclear Energy
Television
10
Zionism was instrumental in the creation of
Cuba
Israel
South Vietnam
South Korea
11
The United Nations was the replacement for
The Guild of Nations
The Union of Nations
The League of Nations
The Alliance of Nations
12
Nuclear Warfare carries with it the acronym
MIG
BFG
NWA
MAD
13
Richard Nixon claimed in a televised speech that the only campaign gift he ever accepted was
A bike for his daughter
A pony
None - he never accepted any gifts
A puppy
14
Ray Kroc was instrumental in the creation of franchises when he helped to popularize
McDonald's
Burger King
Dairy Queen
Pizza Hut
15
Sputnik?
Was the Russian's new weapon
Was a Russian satellite sent into orbit
Was the Russian plan to invade Berlin
Was a Russian monkey sent to space
16
A conglomerate is a big business that
Uses the best technologies
Sell the rights to their name
Makes more money than the government
Owns many small businesses
17
Who coined the term "iron curtain"?
Atlee
Truman
Churchill
Roosevelt
18
For the goal of collective security, the Russians created
The Moscow Pact
NATO
The Atlantic Charter
Warsaw Pact
19
Alan Freed "created" rock n' roll by
Recording new songs for white artists
Hosting a tv show
Hiring black musicians
Renaming R N' B music
20
Brown v. Board of Education overturned the case of
Plessy v. Ferguson
Shenk v. US
Korematsu v. US
Scott v. Sanford
21
Levittown houses were designed to be all of the following EXCEPT
Cheap
Easy to make
Identical
Large
22
Douglas MacArthur was fired because
He offended the Japanese
He wanted to invade China
He wanted to conquer North Korea
He wanted to nuke Russia
23
Harry Truman dramatically defeated Thomas Dewey in the election of
1948
1950
1952
1946
24
Joseph McCarthy was a US Senator from which state?
Michigan
Iowa
Wyoming
Wisconsin
25
Joe Welch embarrassed Joe McCarthy when McCarthy decided to look for communists in
Hollywood
The Army
The Media
The State Department
26
For more than twenty years, this country was also called China
Saipan
Burma
Formosa
Taiwan
27
To keep Western Europe from becoming communist, the US used
The Truman Doctrine
The Eisenhower Principle
The Marshall Plan
The Roosevelt Corollary
28
The concept of Brinksmanship said that the leaders of the country had to be willing to
Find better technology
Destroy the world
Attack first
Seek allies and help
29
Which company was instrumental in the creation of transistors?
Systel systems
IBM
Microsoft
Bell laboratories
30
Who was effected by the "problem that has no name?"
Immigrants
Women
Minorities
Veterans