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Cold War Review
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1
After both countries attained an atomic bomb, what weapon did they race to attain next?
Automatic Weapons
Surveillance Drones
The Hydrogen Bomb
Guided Missiles
2
The leader of the Soviet Union in WWII and the early Cold War was:
Vladamir Putin
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
3
Which Vietnamese leader did the US support in the conflict in Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
4
The US president who was in office at the end of the Cold War:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ronald Regan
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
5
The name of the 1962 nuclear stand-off
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Korean War
The Assassination of President Kennedy
The Bay of Pigs
6
What event allowed the US to gain an upper hand in post WWII negotiations?
The Creation of the UN
The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
US success in WWII
The Building of the Berlin Wall
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This agency was created during the Cold War to collect intelligence about Communism abroad
The CIA
The International Police Force
The FBI
The Navy Seals
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Which of the following nations was NOT a member of the Warsaw Pact?
Russia
Ukraine
France
East Germany
9
The leader of Communist China:
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kim Jong-Un
Qingjia Edward Wang
10
Which country was the first to put a man in space?
The United States
Germany
The USSR
England
11
This individual accused many Americans of being Communists
Joseph McCarthy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Malcom X
Lyndon B. Johnson
12
This policy had much to do with the US enacting the Marshall Plan in Europe
Brinkmanship
Atomic Diplomacy
Containment
A Great Society
13
What were the two opposing pacts that began at the beginning of the Cold War?
NATO & UN
Warsaw Pact & NATO
NATO & NARO
Warsaw Pact and League of Nations
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Winston Churchill referred to the spread of Communism as this:
An Iron Curtain
A big stick
The end of the world
The Berlin Wall