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The Cold War: 1946-1962
The Cold War: 1946-1962
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1
What was the name of the "line" identified as the
border
in Europe between Communism and Democracy?
The Copper Fence
The Cement Fortress
The Steel Barrier
The Iron Curtain
2
The conviction and execution of the
Rosenbergs
turned the
Red Scare
from cautionary vigilance to...
Anger
Peace
Paranoia
Fear
3
J. Robert Oppenheimer
was accused of being, or at least, associating with...
White Supremacists
Nazi Spies
Soviet Officials
Fellow Travellers
4
The name of the "contest" to make more and stronger
Atomic Bombs
, and eventually
Hydrogen Bombs
was called...
Arms Race
100 Kiloton Race
Human Race
Space Race
5
The incident that resulted in the USA getting
caught in a lie
to the world in 1960?
Berlin Airlift
Bay of Pigs
U2 Incident
Cuban Missile Crisis
6
To prevent another attempt by the
USA
to invade or attack
Cuba
, the
Soviets
put
nuclear missiles
on the island?
True
False
7
What was the
dividing line
between the nations of North Korea and South Korea at the start of the war in 1950?
45th Latitude
Prime Meridian
Equator
38th Parallel
8
City that needed an
airlift
to resupply it for months since the Soviets surrounded it with 2 million troops in 1947...
South London
West Berlin
East Hudson
North Moscow
9
The name(s) of the
person/people
most responsible for the Soviets getting the USA's A-Bomb secrets were...
Robert Hanson & Edward Snowden
Robert Oppenheimer & Haakon Chevalier
Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
Klaus Fuchs & Algier Hiss
10
The most likely "
flash point
" for the Cold war to become a Hot War was the
border
between?
North & South Vietnam
USA & USSR
East & West Germany
North & South Korea
11
What tactic did
Rep. Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon
use against
Rep. Helen "Pink Lady" Douglas
in the 1950 CA Senate Race?
Pinkizing
Trickoration
McCarthyism
Red Baiting
12
The
derogatory
(and sexist/homophobic) term used by Americans to refer to Communists was...
Brown Streaks
Reddies
Pinkos
Weenies
13
A year later,
President Eisenhower
ended the
Korean War
by promising to extend the war to China and use atomic weapons.
False
True
14
The
fear
that Communist spies were everywhere in America at the beginning of the Cold War:
Pink Ladies
Blue Meenies
Green Backs
Red Scare
15
What
line separated
the nations of North Korea and South Korea at the end of the war in 1953?
Prime Meridian
45th Latitude
38th Parallel
Equator
16
Once our
spy planes
discovered
nuclear missile sites
being built in
Cuba
the
USA
and
USSR
did the following
EXCEPT
:
Each nation used one nuclear weapon against each other.
Both nations moved war fleets into the region ready to fight each other.
USSR demanded USA's missiles be removed from Turkey.
USA demanded the USSR's missiles be removed from Cuba.
17
As a result of the
Cuban Missile Crisis
in 1962 the
USA & USSR
began talks to slow/stop the spread of
nuclear weapons
?
False
True
18
As a result of the growing
paranoia
over Communist Spies in America, all of the following were formed
EXCEPT
...
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Secret Security Boards
Nuremberg Commision
H.U.A.C.
19
Why didn't the Soviets
veto
the UN's decision to use military action against communism in South Korea?
China paid them not to.
The Soviets wanted to stop the North Koreans.
It was done in secret.
The Soviets were boycotting the UN that day.
20
President Truman
fired
General MacArthur in 1952 for the following reasons
EXCEPT
...
MacArthur wanted to use atomic weapons.
MacArthur wanted to extend the war into China.
MacArthur went to the media to turn the public against Truman.
MacArthur slapped Truman and called him a "yellow coward".
21
The incident that started the
Space Race
in 1957 was...
Launch of Sputnik
Launch of the Space Shuttle
Launch of the Redstone Rocket
Launch of the V2 Rocket
22
A lesson learned of the Korean War was...
There were multiple Superpowers by 1950.
Weak nations had no chance against a Superpower.
No country was a Superpower.
There a limits even to what a Superpower could do.
23
The main reason the
USA
got caught lying in the
U2 Incident
was all of the following
EXCEPT
:
We did not know that the Soviets could detect and shootdown our U2's.
The USA was arrogant and sloppy in how it dealt with the Soviets.
The pilot did not self-destruct the plane and commit suicide.
The military and department of defense got their stories "crossed".
24
What group agreed to use military action to keep
South Korea
democratic in 1950?
US House of Representatives
United Nations
Soviet Politburo
NATO
25
How did the Soviets (surprisingly) develop their own
A-Bomb
by 1949, code named
First Lightning
?
A Byproduct of their Space Program
Stolen NAZI Plans
Spies and Fellow Travelers
Years of Scientific Experimentation
26
The
CIA
funded and trained attempt to retake
Cuba
from the
Communists in 1961
was...
Bay of Pigs
Guantanamo Bay
Havana Harbor Invasion
Cigar Bay
27
The person who made the famous
Iron Curtain Speech
was...
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Harry S. Truman
Mao Zedong
28
Who was the scientist in charge of the
Manhattan Project
during WW2 and Los Alamos at the beginning of the Cold War?
Albert Einstein
Edward Teller
Haakon Chevalier
J. Robert Oppenheimer
