Honors Unit 6: Cold War Review

Question 1

Who is ready for this test?!

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

Alliance led by the United States..

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 3

Why was the Berlin Wall created?

Accepted Answer

Built by E. Germany to stop people from entering West Berlin

Question 4

Rejection of traditional American values..

Accepted Answer

Counterculture

Question 5

What was the Berlin Airlift?

Accepted Answer

Dropping of food supplies & medicine in West Berlin

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

38th Parallel

Question 7

Mainstream Americans who supported the war in Vietnam

Accepted Answer

Silent Majority

Question 8

What was the significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the Bay of Pigs incident?

Accepted Answer

CIA trained Cuban exiles, but invasion did not go as planned

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

Kent State

Question 11

How can America's lifestyle in the 1950s best be described?

Accepted Answer

Relative wealth but social pressure towards conformity

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Agent Orange

Question 13

Policy of preventing the spread of communism..

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

Increase the role of South Vietnam in the conflict

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

Franchise

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Television

Question 17

Why were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed?

Accepted Answer

Selling nuclear secrets to the USSR

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Greasers

Question 19

Which country helped North Korea during the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 20

In total, how many Americans died in the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

58,000

Question 21

Which events became a justification for Johnson to escalate the American effort in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

A N. Vietnamese boat attacked destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin

Question 22

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

Accepted Answer

McCarthyism

Question 23

What was US justification for involvement in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Truman Doctrine

Question 24

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

During WWII the Soviets suffered more casualties than the US

Question 25

Alliance led by the Soviet Union..

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 26

Why was the Tet Offensive the turning point of in the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

Demonstrated US failed to maintain security in S. Vietnam

Question 27

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

Accepted Answer

Iron Curtain

Question 28

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

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 29

Which of the following is an accurate statement about Levittowns?

Accepted Answer

It was a suburb community created by William Levitt

Question 30

Why did President Truman fire General Douglas MacArthur?

Accepted Answer

MacArthur openly discussed Truman's shortcomings with press

Question 31

Which of the following could you NOT do in America during the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

Watch the Super Bowl on a television

Question 32

Public distrust of government officials and statements..

Accepted Answer

Credibility Gap

Question 33

Communist backed guerrilla fighters

Accepted Answer

Vietcong

Question 34

Which was NOT a weapon or tactic used by US during the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

Agent Orange to pollute the Susquehanna River

Honors Unit 6: Cold War Review

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Honors Unit 6: Cold War Review

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