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The Cold War & McCarthyism
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1
The witch hunt against gay people in government was called the:
Yellow Scare
Red Scare
Lavender Scare
Green Scare
2
True or False: The US gives more foreign aid than any other country in the world.
True
False
3
One of the heroes of the Lavender Scare who sued the government was:
Alan Ruck
Richard Kind
Frank Kameny
Connie Britton
4
The Wisconsin Senator who claimed he had a list of 205 secret communists in government was:
Joseph McCarthy
Bernie Sanders
Todd McCarthy
Joseph Stalin
5
HUAC called a group of screenwriters, directors and producers to trial. They were known as the:
L.A. Elite
Movie Moguls
Hollywood Elite
Hollywood Ten
6
If the US could build a deadly enough weapons arsenal, it would prevent the Soviets from ever attacking. This is called:
Aggression
Deterrence
M.A.D.
Containment
7
After WW2, Berlin was divided into how many zones?
4
3
2
5
8
The US and Western Europe created an alliance system known as:
UN
NATO
Warsaw Pact
NAFTA
9
The US - Soviet Union arms race was a competition to see who could have the most:
human arms
nuclear weapons
10
Foreign aid makes up what percent of our federal government's budget?
10%
25%
30%
1%
11
The couple accused of passing atomic secrets to the Soviets was:
Julian and Ethel Rosenberg
Mark and Edith Rosenblatt
Paul and Marcy Hill
James and Martha Feldman
12
The fear of communism that began spreading through America during the Cold War became known as the:
Red Scare
Yellow Scare
Soviet Scare
Commie Scare
13
What does M.A.D. stand for?
Military Action Designation
Mutually Assured Destruction
Magical Astronaut Donkey
Military Action Deterrence
14
Truman's strategy of trying preventing communism from spreading to other countries was called:
Domino Theory
Stop-Gap
Marshall Plan
Containment
15
Accused communists who lost their job and could never work in their industry again were:
whitelisted
waitlisted
redshirted
blacklisted
16
Which of the following was not a Soviet-controlled country after World War 2?
Spain
Hungary
Poland
Yugoslavia
17
Based on the Truman Doctrine, what was America's main foreign policy goal?
Send military and economic assistance to protect countries from communism
Use military force against the Soviet Union
Avoid getting involved in European affairs
Use money to control Latin American countries
18
Stalin tried to get the Allied Powers out of Berlin by:
begging them to leave
using military force against the Allied Powers
blockading all entry points into Berlin
writing a mean note to US forces
19
True or False: Democrats are more likely to give foreign aid than Republicans.
False
True
20
How much money did the US send to European countries as part of the Marshall Plan?
$240 Million
$1 Billion
$13 Billion
$2 Trillion
21
In this economic system, people can own private businesses and property.
Socialism
Communism
Capitalism
Agrarian
22
On what island chain did the US test their hydrogen bombs?
Guam Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Virgin Islands
Marshall Islands
23
The Soviet Union and their Soviet-controlled Eastern European countries made an alliance system known as:
UN
NAFTA
Warsaw Pact
NATO
24
The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands contains what?
oil
plastic pollution
coral reefs
radioactive waste
25
The dividing line that separated Soviet controlled countries from Western Europe was called:
Iron Curtain
Iron Fist
Soviet Bloc
Mason-Dixon Line
26
Critics of HUAC said that it violated Americans' freedom of:
religion
complaining
speech
press
27
The govenrment committee created to find communists within our American institutions was called the:
House of Un-Patriotic Activities Committee
House of Anti-Communist Committee
House of Un-American Activities Committee
International House of Pancakes
28
What 2 countries have more nukes than all of the other countries combined today?
Russia and France
England and America
England and France
Russia and America
29
Another name for the hydrogen bomb was the:
da bomb
big bomb
atom bomb
superbomb
30
At what conference did the Big 3 Powers divide up Berlin?
Teller conferece
Berlin Conference
Warsaw Conference
Potsdam Conference