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Cold War Review Quiz for U.S. History
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1
What treaty organization was founded by the U.S. in 1949 in response to the Cold War?
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Manhattan Project
HUAC
2
What crime were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted and executed for during the Cold War?
Murder
Treason
Espionage
Arson
3
Period of huge boom in U.S. population following WWII. Lasted from 1945-1965.
Baby Boom
Domino Theory
HUAC
4
Paid for college, training, or home loan assistance to veterans and soldiers returning home.
Containment
HUAC
GI Bill
5
Which President's Doctrine stated that the U.S. would assist any country resisting Communism?
Kennedy
Truman
Johnson
Eisenhower
6
Whose policy of brinkmanship led to the Korean War and led to increased tension with the USSR?
Truman
Johnson
Eisenhower
Kennedy
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The belief that if one country fell to communism, countries around it would also fall soon.
McCarthyism
containment
domino theory
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What was the U.S. policy of trying to stop the spread of communism after WWII?
Sputnik
Containment
Domino Theory
Apocalypse
9
Developed the polio vaccine.
Elvis Presley
Jonas Salk
George Marshall
10
What event involved American troops lifting supplies to a blockaded city in Germany?
Berlin Airlift
Cuban Missile Crisis
Tonkin Gulf Incident
Korean War
11
What funded U.S. policy of assisting countries who needed economic aid and resisting Communism?
Truman Doctrine
Great Society
New Frontier
Marshall Plan
12
Which war began with the North invading the South by crossing the 38th parallel?
WWII
Cuban
Korean
Vietnam
13
Sputnik's launch in 1957 officially began what "competition" between the USSR and the U.S.?
Space Race
Apocalypse
Korean War
Cold War
14
What organization was founded by Sen. McCarthy and marked the beginning of the Red Scare?
HUAC
Warsaw Pact
NATO
NAFTA