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Unit 4.2 Review
Unit 4.2 Review
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Early Cold War and 1950s
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1
The American-planned failed invasion of Cuba was called ______.
The Guantanamo Bay Battle
The Space Race
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
2
What is the name of the plan to provide economic aid to Europe after WWII for recovery?
Containment Policy
Warsaw Pact
Molotov Plan
Marshall Plan
3
All of these nations were communist during the 20th century EXCEPT
China
South Korea
Cuba
East Germany
4
McCarthyism ended when the President was accused of being a communist.
True
False
5
What is fallout?
Extreme mudslides
Bombs dropped during the Korean War
When a country falls to communism
Radioactive dust that falls after a nuclear blast
6
How did the Korean War end?
With the North becoming communist and the South becoming a democracy
With all of Korea becoming communist
Japan invaded and annexed Korea
Korea became part of China
7
All of these were popular in the 1950s EXCEPT
Video Games
TV shows
Baseball
Rock and Roll
8
The United States was a member of the Warsaw Pact
False
True
9
The booming car industry caused which of the following to develop in the 1950s?
the decline of drive-in theaters
Seatbelts standards
the Interstate Highway Act
Labor unions
10
What was Levittown?
The capital of North Korea
The first planned subdivision community
The re-named West Berlin
A hippie utopia
11
What is the name of the committee formed to investigate possible communist "subversives"?
the Warsaw Pact
the Doomsday Committee
HUAC
the FCDA
12
What is the 38th Parallel?
The divide between North and South Vietnam
The border between the USA and USSR
The approximate location of the Iron Curtain
The divide between North and South Korea
13
An economic system in which business are privately owned and controlled is called ____.
Capitalism
Communism
Socialism
Democracy
14
Once NATO was formed, the Soviet Union created their own economic/political alliance called the ______.
Molotov Plan
Marshall Plan
Iron Curtain
Warsaw Pact
15
How long did the Cuban Missile Crisis last?
3 months
13 days
13 weeks
11 days
16
Which of the following was an original member of NATO?
Poland
Turkey
Yugoslavia
East Germany
17
Who gave the famous "Iron Curtain" speech?
Dwight Eisenhower
Joseph Stalin
Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
18
The Berlin Blockade directly resulted in ______.
the Korean War
the Cuban Missile Crisis
the start of WWII
the Berlin Airlift
19
The Cuban Communist regime was successfully overthrown in the 1960s by the CIA.
True
False
20
Who was the communist leader of Cuba in the 1950s?
Cesar Chavez
Kim Il-sung
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
