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The Cold War...the early years
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This policy was intended to defend the Middle East from attack by communist forces
Containment
Brinkmanship
Marshall Plan
Eisenhower Doctrine
2
The satellite nations were members of this military alliance
Warsaw Pact
United Nations
CIA
NATO
3
The ___ were defeated in China despite billion's in American aid.
Socialists
Communists
Nationalists
Soviets
4
The Soviet blockade of West Berlin was a response to
efforts by Western nations to divide Germany
the formation of NATO
the Marshall Plan
efforts by Western nations to reunify Germany
5
Who was forced to retreat to Taiwan?
the Korean Communists
the Chinese Nationalists
the Chinese Communists
the Korean Nationalists
6
This was intended to counterbalance the Soviet Union's growing prestige in the Middle East
CIA
Eisenhower Doctrine
Brinkmanship
NATO
7
The Eisenhower Doctrine was a warning to the Soviet Union against military intervention in
Western Europe
Latin America
the Middle East
Eastern Europe
8
The 38th parallel became an important dividing line between
China and Taiwan
North and South China
Korea and China
North and South Korea
9
This event led Khrushchev to call off a summit conference he and Eisenhower were to hold
the Korean War
U-2 incident
Marshall Plan
H-bomb
10
Which development is most closely associated with the belief in the domino theory?
construction of the Berlin wall
military involvement in Vietnam
the end of the Korean War
nuclear test ban treaty
11
"An attack on one is considered an attack on all" this foreign policy is held by
HUAC
NASA
Warsaw Pact
NATO
12
The successful launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 signaled the beginning of
the cold war with the U.S.
Soviet technological superiority
disarmament between the superpowers
Soviet aggression
13
This defensive alliance was the first military alliance that the U.S. entered during peacetime
NATO
Allies
Warsaw Pact
United Nations
14
When the USSR exploded an atomic bomb, the U.S. responded by intensifying efforts to develop
a space satellite
a hydrogen bomb
an atomic bomb
NATO
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___ could only be charged with perjury, not espionage, because too many years had passed
Alger Hiss
Nikita Khrushchev
Francis Gary Powers
Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
16
He arranged for about 400 million dollars in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece
Joseph Stalin
Harry S. Truman
Winston Churchill
Dwight D. Eisenhower
17
_____ was the leader of the Communists in China
Kim Il Sung
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
Syngman Rhee
18
____ is best known for investigating communism in the film industry.
NATO
HUAC
The CIA
The U.N.
19
The technique of making charges of disloyalty was named after
Alger Hiss
Joseph MacCarthy
John Foster Dulles
Senator Joseph McCarthy
20
Which problem of the Cold War is highlighted by this photograph?
a nuclear showdown between superpowers
The dangers of nuclear proliferation
Joseph McCarthy announced the discovery of "Reds"
Nuclear missiles installed in Cuba by the USSR
21
The Soviet Union set up the ____ in response to the U.S., U.K and France unifying West Germany.
Berlin Airlift
Iron curtain
German Democratic Republic
Berlin Blockade
22
This aid program was directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty
NATO
Marshall Plan
satellite nations
United Nations
23
This term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
Cold War
Warsaw Pact
Berlin airlift
containment
24
General Douglas MacArthur commanded U.S. forces in
Guatemala
the Middle East
Korea
Hungary
25
Although Mao Zedong won the hearts of the Chinese peasants, he failed to win American support
because he was corrupt
because he was a Nationalist
because he cooperated with Japan
because he was a communist
26
President JFK supported the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion as an effort to
to rescue Cuban freedom fighters
remove a communist dictator from power
stop the flow of illegal drugs
to support Fidel Castro
27
Both the United States and the Soviet Union joined this organization after WWII
NATO
United Nations
Marshall Plan
Berlin airlift
28
43 witnesses from the Hollywood film industry were subpoenaed to give testimony by
Hollywood Ten
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Joseph McCarthy
HUAC
29
To label someone with the term ___ would be to suggest that the person is making unsupported accusations.
infiltration
Containment
Brinkmanship
McCarthyism
30
When an armistice was signed ending the Korean War,
North and South Korea were still divided
Communist fears in the U.S were lifted
China gained control of the entire peninsula
a communist government was established in South Korea
31
Accusations that communism was widely present in the U.S. government and military were made by
Alger Hiss
Douglas MacArthur
Joseph Foster Dulles
Joseph McCarthy
32
The main goal of the Truman Doctrine was to
restrict the spread of communism
promote free elections in Europe
force Germany to pay war reparations
maintain international peace through the U.N.
33
This action provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
containment
Berlin airlift
34
The ____ appeared to be winning the Korean War until China actively entered the conflict.
North Koreans
Nationalists
Communists
South Koreans
35
This group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the Soviet Union
United Nations
NATO
satellite nations
Cold War
36
Of the following participants in the Korean War, which fought on the side of the Communists
the United Nations
South Korea
China
the United States
37
The U.S. responded to fear of Soviet military action in the Middle East by issuing the
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Warsaw Pact
Eisenhower Doctrine
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The main goal of the _____ was to stop the spread of communism.
Truman doctrine
Marshall Plan
Iron curtain
Warsaw Pact