Cold War Test Review

Question 1

The term "Cold War" refers to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

tension for potential war between the US and Soviet Union

Question 2

What were blacklists used for in Hollywood during the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

to prevent suspected communists from making movies

Question 3

Where were the Chinese Nationalists sent to after the Chinese Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Taiwan

Question 4

How did Truman respond to the Berlin Blockade

Accepted Answer

Used an airlift to send supplies in

Question 5

What policy did the US adopt towards Communism?

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 6

When one country would fall to communism, the next would follow.

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 7

Communist Dictator of China in 1949.

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong

Question 8

Greece and Turkey benefited from this Doctrine.

Accepted Answer

Truman Doctrine

Question 9

The Korean War resulted in

Accepted Answer

no significant change in the border between N and S Korea.

Question 10

What was the GI Bill used for?

Accepted Answer

All of the answers

Question 11

He was the leader of the war in the Pacific in WWII and the leader of the Korean War.

Accepted Answer

Douglas MacArthur

Question 12

What event made America think that we were getting passed by the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

Sputnik launched by the USSR

Question 13

Popular president, former WWII General, and creator of the highway system.

Accepted Answer

Eisenhower

Question 14

What were women in America expected to do in the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

Raise children

Question 15

What group did the HUAC attack in Hollywood and send to jail?

Accepted Answer

Hollywood Ten

Question 16

Nations in Eastern Europe that were esentially controlled by the Soviet Union.

Accepted Answer

Satellite Nations

Question 17

What is presented in this picture?

Accepted Answer

Iron Curtain

Question 18

He started the Second Red Scare in America.

Accepted Answer

Joseph McCarthy

Question 19

The largest public works project during Eisenhower’s presidency was

Accepted Answer

construction of the interstate highway system

Question 20

Where did Stalin refuse to promise that Eastern Europe would have free elections?

Accepted Answer

Potsdam

Question 21

What was the first suburban in New York called that made housing affordable?

Accepted Answer

Levittown

Question 22

This was created to ensure nations could find peaceful solutions to conflicts.

Accepted Answer

United Nations

Question 23

Baby Boomers were?

Accepted Answer

Children born after World War II

Question 24

Designed to protect nations if they were attacked by a communist agressor.

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 25

This was designed to help rebuild countries of Western Europe and stop communism from spreading

Accepted Answer

The Marshall Plan

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