Chapter 18 Cold War Review

Question 1

The U-2 incident, the use of airplanes to bring food and supplies to the people of West Berlin.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

the false accusations of being communist was named after who?

Accepted Answer

Joseph McCarthy

Question 3

nationalist government leader in China.

Accepted Answer

Chaing Ka-Shek

Question 4

unfriendly witnesses who were called to testify but refused and were sent to prison.

Accepted Answer

Hollywood Ten

Question 5

He arranged for about 400 million dollars in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece.

Accepted Answer

Harry Truman

Question 6

A military alliance of the Eastern satellite nations and the Soviet Union.

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 7

people who were condemned for having a communist background.

Accepted Answer

Blacklist

Question 8

Replaced Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union

Accepted Answer

Nikita Khrushev

Question 9

was charged with perjury for spying on the United States

Accepted Answer

Hiss

Question 10

the president of the United States from 1953-1961.

Accepted Answer

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 11

defensive military alliance was the first alliance that the USA ever entered during peacetime.

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 12

Troops from South Korea first crossed the 38th parallel and began the Korean War.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

China's Communist leader Mao Zedong used tactics to lure Chinese peasants to the Communist Army

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

policy of containment threatened retaliation to the edge of all-out war

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

American foreign policy to stop the spread of communism.

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 16

This event led Khrushchev to call off a summit conference he and Eisenhower were going to hold

Accepted Answer

U-2 Incident

Question 17

The indirect but hostile conflict between the US and the USSR that began at the end of WWII

Accepted Answer

Cold War

Question 18

After Stalin's death, several leaders shared power in the Soviet Union until Joseph Gorbachev

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

leaked secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union and was guilty of espionage.

Accepted Answer

Rosenbergs

Question 20

Gary Powers was convicted of perjury after being accused of spying for the Soviet Union.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

U.S. policy required greater dependence on nuclear weapons and the airplanes that delivered.

Accepted Answer

Brinkmanship

Question 22

The leader of the Soviet Union during WWII who died in 1953.

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin

Question 23

provided aid to all European nations that needed it.

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 24

Satellite nations of the Soviet Union joined the military alliance known as the Warsaw Pact.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

The satellite nations were members of this military alliance.

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 26

McCarthyism is the unfair tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without providing evidence

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

Truman fired MacArthur because of of his insistence that the US should bomb North Korea.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

This group's covert actions helped to topple governments in Iran and Guatemala.

Accepted Answer

CIA

Question 29

Both the U.S.A and the Soviet Union joined this organization after World War II.

Accepted Answer

United Nations

Chapter 18 Cold War Review

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Chapter 18 Cold War Review

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