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1
What was the meeting between the Allied Powers to discuss the division of Germany into 4 zones?
Yalta Conference
Camp David Accords
Potsdam Conference
Versailles Conference
2
What term describes a contest for weapons superiority?
Mutually Assured Destruction
Space race
Arms race
Peace through Strength
3
What law helped WWII veterans buy homes & pay for higher education?
Veterans Rehabilitation Act
G.I.Bill
Post War Recovery Act
Military Reimbursement Act
4
What law created a federal highway system?
The Interstate Highway Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
Works Progress Administration
Public Works Administration
5
What is the international organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace?
NATO
The League of Nations
Warsaw Pact
The United Nations
6
What term describes foreign policy of preventing the expansion of Communism around the world?
Imperialism
Containment
Socialism
Egalitarianism
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What term describes an area immediately outside of a city?
urban
suburbs
rural
remote
8
What was Eisenhower's announcement to help Middle Eastern nations defend against Communism?
The Eisenhower Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine
9
What is the name of the documents that confirmed the Rosenbergs guilt?
The Venona Papers
The Marshall Plan
The Federalist Papers
The Pentagon Papers
10
Who was the hero of WW II & was put in command of United Nations forces in the Korean War?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Omar Bradley
George S. Patton
11
What is the name of the program of economic assistance to help rebuild Western European?
Marshall Plan
Lend-lease Act
Dollar Diplomacy
Imperialism
12
What was the government agency established to investigate disloyalty in the U.S.?
FDIC
OWI
HUAC
HUD
13
What is the latitude line that divided North & South Korea at the midpoint of the peninsula?
the prime meridian
19th parallel
the equator
38th parallel
14
What is the alliance of U.S. & Western European nations that agreed to “collective security”?
NATO
The League of Nations
The United Nations
The Warsaw Pact
15
What U.S. policy helped support nations threatened by Communism with economic & military aid?
Truman Doctrine
containment
Big Stick Policy
Dollar Diplomacy
16
What term describes the competition between the U.S. & Soviet Union for influence in the world?
The Cold War
The Red Scare
The Communist Manifesto
Soviet-German non-aggression pact
17
What is the name of the alliance between the Soviet Union & its Eastern European satellites?
The Axis Powers
The Warsaw Pact
NATO
The Allied Powers
18
What is the conflict over the Korean peninsula which ended in a stalemate?
Korean War
Spanish-American War
The Cold War
Vietnam War
19
What term describes a dramatic increase in birthrate?
boom town
baby boom
sonic boom
housing boom
20
What was the American & British operation that moved supplies into West Berlin by plane?
Berlin Airlift
D-Day
The Manhattnm Project
Operation Overlord
21
Who were the American spies found guilty of selling atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union?
Hitler & Mussolini
Sacco & Vanzetti
Julius & Ethyl Rosenberg
Rob & Blac Chyna
22
What term describes Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist accusations without evidence?
Despotism
Socialism
McCarthyism
Communism
23
What term describes the division between communist and democratic nations of Europe?
No Mans land
The European Front
The Iron Curtain
The Berlin Wall
24
What was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviets?
Sputnik I
Mercury 7
Freedom 7
Apollo 13
