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1
Documents released in 1997 that proved the Soviets were spying on the US
The Rosenberg Papers
The CIA Papers
The Verona Papers
The Venona Papers
2
What were the border nations between the USSR and the West serving as a buffer zone called?
Stalin’s Wall
United Nations
Iron Curtain
Satellite Nations
3
What government agency is best known for investigating communism in the film industry?
The UN
The CIA
HUAC
NATO
4
The alliance between the Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War was called
NATO
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
League of Nations
5
Flexible Response was the foreign policy of which president?
Roosevelt
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
6
Eisenhower used this agency to overthrow "unfriendly" government and replace them with proU.S.
NSA
Secret Service
CIA
FBI
7
Who was the leader of the communists in China?
Syngman Rhee
Kim II Sung
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek
8
What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?
Deliver Poland to the West
Stop the spread of communism
Stop the USSR from spreading democracy
Jumpstart Europe's economy
9
How did the U.S. respond to the Soviet's first explosion of the atomic bomb?
By forming NATO
by firing satellite into space.
by exploding a hydrogen bomb
by exploding an atomic bomb
10
The plan to rebuild Europe to prevent the spread of Communism after WWII was called
The Marshall Plan
The Eisenhower Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine
Containment
11
The national motto of the United States after 1956 which shows the US is NOT the Soviet Union
Hakuna Matata
Just Do it
E Pluribus Unum
In God We Trust
12
The failed overthrow of the Communist government in Cuba was called
The Bacon Pigs
The Berlin Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
13
General Douglas MacArthur argued that the Korean War
should be limited to Korea.
should be extended into a war against China.
should be extended into a war against the Soviet Union.
was not a vital American interest.
14
Brinkmanship was the foreign policy developed by which Secretary of State
Dean Acheson
John F. Dulles
George F. Kennan
George Marshall
15
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was based on the principle of
collective security.
free trade.
isolationism.
appeasement.
16
What did Stalin do in the 1950s in response to efforts from the West to reunify Germany?
construction of the Berlin Wall
An atomic bomb
an embargo on wheat to NATO nations
A Soviet blockade of West Berlin
17
The launching of Sputnik led to
The red scare
The creation of NASA
The Space Race
The Arms Race
18
Since the the 1950s, the false and unsupported accusations of a person's actions is now called?
McCarthyism
infiltration
brinkmanship
containment
19
Leader of the Soviet Union that built the Berlin Wall
Stalin
Khruschev
Lenin
Truman
20
The successful removal of a nuclear threat from an island 90 miles away from the U.S. was
The Bay of Pigs
The Berlin Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Hungarian Revolt
21
What was the Berlin airlift a response to?
construction of the Berlin wall
reunification of East and West Germany
Soviet blockade of West Berlin
German development of the atomic bomb
22
Of the following participants in the Korean War, which fought on the side of the Communists?
China
the United Nations
the United States
South Korea
23
The first satellite launched into space was
Sputnik
Spudnik
Discovery
Apollo II
24
The 38th parellel became an important dividing line between
China and Taiwan(Formosa).
Korea and China.
North and South Korea.
North and South China.
25
After World War II, Germany was split in four by the United States, Great Britain, France and ______
Germany
Spain
Italy
Soviet Union
26
What was the global conflict between the USSR and the U.S., marked by an avoidance of direct war?
Cold War
Space race
Truman Doctrine
Berlin airlift
27
What was Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel convicted of?
destroying U.S. plans for the Hydrogen Bomb
passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
containing Communism
aiding the launch of Sputnik