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Cold War Quiz
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True or False? The Iron Curtain was an actual wall built...
False
True
2
What were the 2 opposing pacts that began at the beginning of the cold war?
NATO & UN
WARSAW & Truman Doctrine
NATO & WARSAW
NORAD & NATO
3
Who was the American politician who accused many celebrities of being a Communist with no proof
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Stalin
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
4
When Fidel Castro became the president of Cuba, Cuba became an ally of what country?
Germany
Vietnam
Soviet Union
United States
5
What are characteristics of a capitalist country?
Government-owned enterprise & censorship
Private enterprise & Free speech
6
The Cold War was a struggle between?
North vs South
USA and Russia
freedom and free enterprise
Communism and Democracy
7
Why was the Berlin Wall built?
to keep the Americans from reaching East Germany
to keep people from escaping communism
to convince East Germans to become communists
to keep people in West Berlin from joining the communists
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Which country had the most influence in Eastern Europe - east of the Iron Curtain?
Soviet Union
America
Britain
France
9
The easing of relations between the East and West in the Cold War was termed...
Containment
Detente
Deterrence
Brinkmanship
10
Who became the leader of the Soviet Union when Joseph Stalin died?
Lavrentiy Beria
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir Lenin
Mikhail Gorbachev
11
What two countries were most involved in the Arms Race during the Cold War?
France and Germany
Japan and Canada
USA and USSR
Germany and the Soviet Union
12
American leaders developed a policy of ____ to resist and stop Soviet aggression.
massive retaliation
isolationism
mutually assured destruction
containment
13
__was a military alliance formed by the US, Canada,& European nations following World War II
The United Nations
The League of Nations
The Warsaw Pact•
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
14
According to the ____, if one country fell to communism, others would soon follow.
Domino Theory
Containment Theory
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
15
After the Yalta Conference, what country is divided into a communist and a non-communist nation
Vietnam
Soviet Union
Korea
Germany
16
What does MAD stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction
Mutual Anti Detonation
Mass Acceleration Dissasembly
Maximum Allowed Destruction
17
The Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan were examples of _____
containment policy
Eisenhower’s domino theory
communist ideology
the arm’s race
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The _____ was a Cold War policy that pledged U.S. support for free peoples resisting communism.
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Red Scare
Marshall Plan
19
The _____ was a program of European economic recovery after World War II.
The Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
The New Deal
NATO
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Why did East Germany become a separate country from West Germany?
allies wanted Germany to remain separated
the United Nations forced them to
democratic countries didn't want E Germany to be democratic
The Soviet Union wanted it to be communist
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What event put the U.S. on the brink of nuclear war in the early 1960s?
Bay of Pigs
Sputnik
Cuban Missile Crisis
U-2 Crisis
