Cold War (Early Years) Review

Question 1

What was the program where the U.S. gave economic help to European countries after WWII?

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 2

What organization was made to investigate disloyalty and communist suspicions in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

House Un-American Activities Committee

Question 3

This U.S. President's death still remains a mystery

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

Question 4

What term, meaning witch-hunting and false accusations, is named after a Wisconsin senator?

Accepted Answer

McCarthyism

Question 5

This news anchor and journalist was the first to publicly question Joseph McCarthy's actions

Accepted Answer

Edward R. Murrow

Question 6

This former Soviet "Uncle" to the United States during WWII wasn't too friendly in the Cold War

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin

Question 7

What was the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe called?

Accepted Answer

Iron Curtain

Question 8

This Soviet leader put atomic weapons in Cuba and wanted to visit Disneyland

Accepted Answer

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 9

Soviet Union and the U.S. "fought," but it never resulted in a direct armed conflict

Accepted Answer

Cold War

Question 10

What term refers to the notion that once one country became Communist the rest would follow?

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 11

What phrase, often associated with George Kennan, best defines the Cold War era?

Accepted Answer

Peace Through Strength

Question 12

People born from the 1920's to the 1940's who focused on their careers and conformed

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Silent Generation

Question 13

U.S. sponsored operation to overthrow government of Cuba via Cuban exiles

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Bay of Pigs

Question 14

Soviets cut the roads and railways, so the U.S. and others take to the sky

Accepted Answer

Berlin Airlift

Question 15

This Communist country invaded South Korea starting the Korean War.

Accepted Answer

North Korea

Question 16

What was the name of the first successful Soviet satellite?

Accepted Answer

Sputnik

Question 17

If this hydrogen bomb had been any bigger the pilot that dropped it would've been vaporized

Accepted Answer

Tsar Bomba

Question 18

What was the closest the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. got to Mutually Assured Destruction?

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 19

These individuals chose not to answer HUAC questions and were blacklisted

Accepted Answer

Hollywood 10

Question 20

The U.S. inadvertently ruined this landmass through atomic testing

Accepted Answer

Bikini Atoll

Question 21

George Kennan founded what theory to prevent the spread of Communism?

Accepted Answer

Containment

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