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Cold War Unit Review
What is the Marshall Plan?
How was the Cold War fought?
Cold War Unit Review
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How was the Cold War fought?
All of the above
Defence systems (NATO and Warsaw Pact)
Arms race
Space race
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What is the Marshall Plan?
All of the above
To give money to others
To help people who need it
US gave amounts of money to help build European Countries
3
The purpose of both the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan was to
increase membership of the United Nations
attempt to solve world hunger
prevent the spread of communism
support the construction of the Iron Curtain
4
What is Brinkmanship?
creation of mutual defense alliance b/w US, Britain, France
willingness to use secret CIA missions to get rid of enemies
willingness go to brink of war force other side to back down
creation of mutual defense alliance b/w SU, China, Korea
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What does HUAC stand for?
Hitler's Usual Activities Committee
House and Underground Area Cleaning
An old vacuum company.
House Un-American Activities Committee
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What was the cold war?
A war between Germany and USSR
The third world war
A new conflict between USA and USSR
A hot war
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The U2 spy plane incident...
the US declared war on Soviet Union
increased US-Soviet tensions.
never happened, it's a conspiracy theory.
decreased US-Soviet tensions.
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The purpose of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact is to
establish a military alliance
discourage religious toleration
promote economic self sufficiency
eliminate political corruption
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Which of the following resulted from McCarthyism during the 1950s?
U.S. diplomats began to express political viewpoints freely.
Membership in the U.S Communist Party increased.
U.S citizens were arrested for being suspected communists.
Recuritment procedures for the US military branches reformed
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What is the purpose of the United Nations?
Encourage trade between member nations
Promote peace and prevent war.
Organize member nations as democracies
Share military secrets among member nations
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The Nuremberg Trials are...
The trials that placed blame for the war on the Allies
The trials that sentenced Hitler to death by hanging
The trials that convicted many Nazi criminals after the war
The famous trials that freed the Jewish people from Germany
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What made the Cold War "cold"?
No actual combat going on
Not enough coats available for soldiers
No real enemies; all in imagination
Soviet Union’s temperature was always below freezing.
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Which of the next options is
NOT
a main body of the United Nations?
International Court of Justice
General Assembly
Security Council
Social and Event Planning Council
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What was the Berlin airlift a response to?
construction of the Berlin wall
Soviet blockade of West Berlin
German development of the atomic bomb
reunification of East and West Germany
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What are ICBMs?
International Committee to Better Mankind
Devices often used to spy on USSR
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
Device used to propel space crafts into space
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Capitalism
Iron Curtin
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Satellite Nations
A corporation that controls other companies
politic system
Countries controlled politically and economically by soviets
economic system
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Who provided supplies in the Berlin Airlift?
Russia & United States
France & United States
Great Britain & United States
France & Great Britain
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Group that worked in the movie industry who was blacklisted by HUAC.
Steven Spielberg
The Hollywood 10
Joseph McCarthy
The magnificent 7
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Which of the following resulted from McCarthyism during the 1950s?
Recruitment procedures for the U.S. military branches were reformed.
Membership in the U.S. Communist Party increased.
U.S. citizens were arrested for being suspected communists.
U.S. diplomats began to express dissenting political viewpoints more freely
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What was an effect of the Soviet Union’s successful launch of “Sputnik” in 1957?
American education focuses more on math, science & technology
Soviets became more cooperative with American space program
Americans gained confidence in their educational leaders
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The 1947 National Security Act created what US spy organization
KGB
CIA
FBI
NSA
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What are ICBMs?
Short range nuclear missiles launched from ships
Large nuclear bombs dropped from airplanes
Nuclear torpedoes launched from submarines
Long range missiles that can hit targets on other continents
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What were the Rosenbergs guilty of
Robbing White House
Stealing Constitution
Espionage
Murdering McCarthy
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What does the Iron Curtain represent?
European nations needed to build more factories
Peace had spread throughout Europe
Militaries of Western Europe were too powerful.
Division between communist Eastern Europe and Western Europe
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German was divided into how many zones?
4
6
2
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The Truman Doctrine was originally designed to --
use of the United Nations to eliminate threats
rebuild Korea by extending economic aid
stop the use of nuclear weapons
contain Communism by giving aid to Greece and Turkey
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When Sputnik was launched, we began the space race with what country?
England
Soviet Union
Germany
Canada
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Who was the Cold War between??
France and USSR
US and Germany
Britain and Germany
US and USSR
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What is the
policy of containment
?
overthrowing communist governments
stopping the spread of communism
taking down the Soviet Union
establishing democracies in former communist countries
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Alger Hiss
Was the only news anchor to challenge McCarthy
Should have found a different name
Accused his own sister of spying for the Soviets
Was a state department official who acted as a spy
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What was the purpose of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
put Nazi war criminals on trial
investigate possible Communists during the 2nd Red Scare
investigate the military following Truman's desegregation
investigate Americans who refuse to serve during WWII
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What was the Second Red Scare?
When fire fighters rebelled against the American government
A time when police would shoot red paint balls at people
Red apples were becoming extinct
The fear-driven movement of the spread of communism
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The McCarran-Walter act did what?
Limited immigration from Communist regions
Created numerous agencies to investigate communist ties
Resulted in a blacklist for suspected communists
Allowed the Hollywood 10 to get out of jail
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Military Industrial Complex
military does not like to work with industry
industry relies on military needs in order to make money
military and industry are not linked
industry does not like to work with military
