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1
Who is best known for investigating communism in the film industry?
HUAC
The CIA
The UN
NATO
2
Who was the leader of the Nationalists in China?
Kim Il Sung
Mao Zedong
Syngman Rhee
Chiang Kai-shek
3
What did the Soviet Union set up in response to efforts from the West to reunify Germany?
construction of the Berlin Wall
an embargo on wheat to NATO nations
An atomic bomb
A Soviet blockade of West Berlin
4
Who appeared to be winning the Korean War until China actively entered the conflict?
Nationalists
South Koreans
Communists
North Korean
5
After World War II, Germany was split in four by the United States, Great Britain, France and
Spain
Italy
Germany
Soviet Union
6
Since the the 1950s, the false and unsupported accusations of a person's actions is now called?
infiltration
McCarthyism
brinkmanship
containment
7
What is a global conflict between the USSR and the U.S., marked by an avoidance of direct war?
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Berlin airlift
Space race
8
What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?
Deliver Poland to the West
Jumpstart Europe's economy
Stop the USSR from spreading democracy
Stop the spread of communism
9
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was based on the principle of
appeasement.
free trade.
collective security.
isolationism.
10
The alliance between the Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War was called
NATO
Warsaw Pact
League of Nations
United Nations
11
The 38th parellel became an important dividing line between
North and South Korea.
China and Taiwan(Formosa).
North and South China.
Korea and China.
12
General Douglas MacArthur argued that the Korean War
was not a vital American interest.
should be extended into a war against China.
should be extended into a war against the Soviet Union.
should be limited to Korea.
13
Of the following participants in the Korean War, which fought on the side of the Communists?
Souht Korea
the United States
the United Nations
China
14
What was Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel convicted of?
destroying U.S. plans for the Hydrogen Bomb
aiding the launch of Sputnik
passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
containing Communism
15
What was the Berlin airlift a response to?
Soviet blockade of West Berlin
reunification of East and West Germany
German development of the atomic bomb
construction of the Berlin wall
16
What are border nations between the USSR and the West serving as a buffer zone called?
Stalin’s Wall
States
Iron Curtain
Satellite Nations
17
Who was the leader of the communists in China?
Syngman Rhee
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek
Kim II Sung
18
How did the U.S. respond to the Soviet's first explosion of the atomic bomb?
by exploding an atomic bomb
by exploding a hydrogen bomb
by firing satellite into space.
By forming NATO
19
Which of the following was NOT a member of NATO?
Britain
Soviet Union
United States
France
20
The Hollywood ten were ordered to go to prison because they were convicted of
leaking top secret material to the press.
being communist sympathizers.
being communists.
being in contempt of court.
21
Who was defeated in the Chinese civil War despite 2 billion dollars in aid from the U.S.?
Soviets
Nationalists
socialists
Communists
22
Although Mao won the hearts of Chinese peasants, he failed to win U.S. support because he
was a Communist.
was a Nationalist.
was corrupt.
had cooperated with Japan during World War II.
23
The first satellite launched into space was
Discovery
Sputnik
NCC-1701
Apollo II
24
What principle was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) based on?
appeasement
collective security
free trade
isolationism
