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What was the name of the first satellite sent into space and what was its effect?
Budspik - Sent the first man into the Sun
Sputnik - started the Space Race between US and USSR
Spudsnik - Sent the first potato to the moon
Spunstik - Put nuclear weapons on all the planets
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Which US president met with Stalin at Potsdam to discuss Japan?
Wilson
Truman
Roosevelt
Eisenhower
3
Who took control of Cuba in 1959 and started a communist dictatorship?
Che Guevara
Joseph Stalin
Fidel Castro
Benito Franco
4
What does N.A.T.O. stand for?
National American Treaty Organization
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
North American Treaty Organization
National Alliance of Treat Originators
5
In what city was an armistice signed, ending the Korean War in 1953?
Seoul
Pyongyang
Panmunjom
Inchon
6
What did the Berlin Wall separate?
East/West Germany
East/West Soviet Union
East/West Europe
East/West Berlin
7
What was formed by the Soviet Union in response to NATO?
Treaty of Versailles
SawHorse Pact
Warlock Pact
Warsaw Pact
8
What did the Iron Curtain separate?
East/West Berlin
East/West Germany
East/West Europe
Soviet Union/Poland
9
What is the rapid spread and production of nuclear weapons and technology?
Nuclear Emancipation
Nuclear Proliferation
Nuclear Precipitation
Nuclear Projectoration
10
The concept that if USSR or US fire a nuclear missile, both sides will destroy one another-
Mutually Beneficial Nuclear Weapons
Throwing Nuclear shade
Mutually Assured Destruction
Denuclearization
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What economic system did the Soviet Union have?
Communist (Centrally Planned)
Marxist
Democratic
Capitalist
12
What did the Truman Doctrine promise?
help to any nation who wanted to be communist
help to any nation who wanted capitalism
help to any free nation who was fighting communism
help to any nation fighting capitalism
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Why was Cuba becoming Communist such a big deal for the US?
Because now they could be our friends
Because we could take over Cuba
Because Cuba could help us fight communism
Becuase now the Soviet Union was 90 miles away from US
14
What did each member of NATO pledge?
To defend every other member of NATO if attacked
To help spread communism globally
To give money to every other member
To fight every communist nation
15
Why was the cold war called the "Cold War"?
Because it snowed
Because it was freezing everywhere
No shots were actually fired
Because the Presidents were cold to each other
16
How much money was appropriated by Congress for the Marshall Plan?
Over $10 Billion
Over $12 Billion
Over $20 Billion
Over $15 Billion
17
Which of these WAS NOT part of the "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference?
Churchill
Roosevelt
Truman
Stalin
18
Who was President during the Cuban missile crisis?
Nixon
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Ford
19
Which economic system does the United States have?
Capitalism
Marxism
Communism
Socialism
20
What is making wild accusations about people being communist, even if they're not?
McArdleism
McCarthyism
McCartneyism
McDonaldsism
21
What was the 13 day period of almost nuclear war called between US and Cuba?
Cuban Nuclear Proliferation
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Communist Issue
Castro's Cuban Communist Carousel
22
Who was the leader of the Chinese communist revolution?
Chang Kai Shek
Jackie Chan
Mao Zedong
Hirohito Tanaka
23
Which Soviet leader came after Stalin died?
Mikhail Gorbicav
Katana Borsckov
Nikita Kruschev
Boris Yeltsin
24
This announcement said that the US would oppose the spread of Communism into the Middle East.
Kennedy Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
Roosevelt Doctrine
25
Where did the "Big Three" meet to discuss plans for Europe after WWII?
Luxembourg
Yalta
New York
Berlin
26
What was the main goal of the Marshall Plan?
to build weapons
to fund communism
to destroy communism
to rebuild European economies to resist communism
27
What were the prison camps that Stalin sent political opponents to?
Bolsheviks
Gulags (Work camps)
Gorskis
Summer Camps
28
Where did CIA-trained Cuban exiles attempt to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro but failed?
Cuban Missile Crisis
D-Day Invasion
Bay of Pigs invasion
Guantanamo Bay Invasion
29
What was the strategy to resupply West Berlin called when the Soviet Union put up the Blockade?
Berlin Airdrop
Berlin Airmail
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Airport
30
What is the dividing line between North/South Korea called?
36th Parallel
52nd Parallel
48th Parallel
38th Parallel
31
What is the area between North and South Korea known as?
The DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)
The MZD (Major Zone Demilitarization)
The ZDM (Zebra Death March)
The TMZ (Useless Celebrity Gossip Garbage)
32
Who wrote the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital?
Vladimir Lenin
Karl Marx
Saul Alinsky
Joseph Stalin
33
What was Truman's policy on Communism? (AKA Truman Doctrine)
Capitalism
Containment
Conquer
Croissant
34
What was the meeting at Yalta about?
How to defeat Japan
How to defeat the Nazis
Splitting up Germany
Splitting up Japan
35
What were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg infamous for?
Being US spies in the USSR and stealing Nuclear secrets
Spying on Joseph McCarthy
Being Soviet spies in the US and giving Nuclear secrets
Spying in the White House for Nixon
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What did U.S.S.R. stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of the Soviet States of Russia
United Sovereign States of Russia
United States of Soviet Russia
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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union until 1953?
Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Kruschev
Truman
