CP Unit 6: Cold War Review

Question 1

Attacks on individuals thought to be communists in the 1950s..

Accepted Answer

McCarthyism

Question 2

Leader of UN Forces in the Korean War..

Accepted Answer

Douglas MacArthur

Question 3

Which of the following events was the turning point for the United States in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Tet Offensive

Question 4

Belief that if one country falls to communism, the others will follow..

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 5

Why were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed?

Accepted Answer

Selling nuclear secrets to the USSR

Question 6

Policy of preventing the spread of communism..

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 7

What factors contributed to the Baby Boom?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 8

Which country helped North Korea during the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 9

What was the significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

Was the closest the world came to a full-scale nuclear war

Question 10

First person to orbit Earth..

Accepted Answer

Yuri Gagarin

Question 11

Leader of North Vietnam..

Accepted Answer

Ho Chi Minh

Question 12

What new mass media technology greatly expanded after World War II?

Accepted Answer

Television

Question 13

Imaginary "line" that separated Communism and Democracy in Europe..

Accepted Answer

Iron Curtain

Question 14

What was the Berlin Airlift?

Accepted Answer

Dropping of food supplies & medicine in West Berlin

Question 15

Who is ready for this test?!

Accepted Answer

Ask me after I study, I feel pretty good about it!, ..... you're funny Miss Weiser..., I am!

Question 16

Triggered the 1950s Red Scare..

Accepted Answer

Joseph McCarthy

Question 17

What was the chemical defoliant used to clear Vietnamese jungles during the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

Agent Orange

Question 18

First person to walk on the moon..

Accepted Answer

Neil Armstrong

Question 19

Public distrust of government officials and statements..

Accepted Answer

Credibility Gap

Question 20

Mainstream Americans who supported the war in Vietnam

Accepted Answer

Silent Majority

Question 21

What was the goal of President Nixon's policy of Vietnamization?

Accepted Answer

Increase the role of South Vietnam in the conflict

Question 22

Which of the following presidents challenged the Soviets to a race to the moon?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

Question 23

Alliance led by the Soviet Union..

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 24

Rejection of traditional American values..

Accepted Answer

Counterculture

Question 25

What was US justification for involvement in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Truman Doctrine

Question 26

Which college campus protest resulted in four student deaths by the National Guard?

Accepted Answer

Kent State

Question 27

What is the dividing line between North and South Korea called?

Accepted Answer

38th Parallel

Question 28

_______ were teenage boys who were stereotyped with participating in illegal activities

Accepted Answer

Greasers

Question 29

Communist backed guerrilla fighters

Accepted Answer

Vietcong

Question 30

Alliance led by the United States..

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 31

A ________ is a company that offers similar services in many locations

Accepted Answer

Franchise

Question 32

How did the Cold War and the Korean War change America?

Accepted Answer

Increased the fear of communism in the US

Question 33

Which European city had a wall built around it to keep people from escaping communism?

Accepted Answer

Berlin

Question 34

In the 1950s, many Americans began working in ________ -collar jobs, such as management

Accepted Answer

white

CP Unit 6: Cold War Review

Questions 34

CP Unit 6: Cold War Review

Questions 34