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American history Unit 9: Cold War
American history Unit 9: Cold War
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1
Who was the Republican President elected in 1980 and 1984?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
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What year did the Cold War begin?
1951
1991
1947
1989
3
In Korea, which side attacked first?
West
South
North
East
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Democratic president from 1961-1963. He is associated with the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ronald Reagan
Ricard Nixon
Alger Hiss
John F. Kennedy
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What two events mark the END of the Cold War?
Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961
U.S. Olympic Boycot in 1980, and Soviet Olympic Boycott 1984
Vietnam War in 1975 and the Warsaw pact
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989/Breakup of the Soviet Union1991
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What strengthened the position of Castro's dictatorship and strengthened ties with the USSR?
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Blockade
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Who was the Communist Leader of Cuba?
Nikita Kruschev
Mao Tse Tung
Fidel Castro
Ho Chi Minh
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What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
North American Treaty Organization
Not A Terrorist Organization
Naval Air Trading and Operating
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What is containment?
Resisting further expansion of disease
Resisting further expansion of terrorism
Resisting further expansion of slavery
Resisting further expansion of communism
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Which Treaty signed between the U.S. and soviets in 1969 limited the number of Nuclear weapons?
NATO
NAACP
SALT I
START I
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What was the Warsaw Pact?
A mutual defense organization
An organization for women's rights
An organizations to support the rise of communism
An organization for the benefit of WWII Veterans
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Vietnamese communist leader
Fidel Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
Ho Chi Minh
Joseph Stalin
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What year did the Cold War officially end?
1975
1951
1947
1991
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Who built a nuclear arsenal as a defense against the Soviets and he Coined the Domino Theory?
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
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Which conflict had Northern Communists invading Southern Non-Communists, and Tet Offensive
Vietnam War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Cold War
16
Who was the State Department Official accused by Whittaker Chambers of being a Communist
Joe McCarthy
Alger Hiss
John Service
George Kennan
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What happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Cuba sent nuclear missiles to the USSR
The USSR sent nuclear missiles to Cuba
Cuba ran out of missiles
All of the above
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He gave a speech in Fulton, MO at Westminster College in which he coined the term"iron curtain"
Ricard Nixon
Winston Churchill
John F. Kennedy
Alger Hiss
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Soviet communist leader associated with glasnost, perestroika, and the end of the Cold War
Joseph Stalin
Ho Chi Minh
Mikhail Gorbachev
Fidel Castro
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Soviet communist leader associated with the Berlin Blockade
Ho Chi Minh
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joseph Stalin
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Who coined the term "Iron Curtain"?
Marshall
Truman
Churchill
Eisenhower
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What became the primary FOREIGN POLICY of the U.S. government during the Cold War?
containment
Capitalism
Communism
Isolationism
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Soviet communist leader associated with the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Warsaw Pact
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Fidel Castro
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Republican Senator from Wisconsin who accused many government officials of being communists.
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Joe McCarthy
Richard Nixon
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What is McCarthyism?
The act of becoming a terrorist
The act of becoming a communist
The act of making false accusations
Fighting against the spread of communism
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What did the Rosenbergs do?
Shared the nuclear bomb recipe with Russia
They baked pies that were actually explosive bombs
Shared the nuclear bomb recipe with North Korea
Illegally released the U.S.'s financial records
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An economic system where the ownership of factories and businesses is private
Socialism
Communism
Capitalism
Nihilism
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Which conflict resulted in the country being divided into two nations along the 38th parallel?
Vietnam War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cold War
Korean War
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Who was Mao Zedong?
Korean Communist
Chinese communist leader
Cuban Communist
Vietnamese Communist
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Republican president from 1969 -1975. associated with Detente, going to China & visiting Moscow
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
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Was accused of being a communist as a member of the State Department and was investigated-HUAC?
Richard Nixon
Alger Hiss
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
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What is the HUAC?
House Unopposed Activist Communism
House Uncommon American Candidates
Handling Unjust Acts of Crime
House Un-American Activities Committee
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What was the Second Red Scare?
The fear-driven movement of the spread of communism
When fire fighters rebelled against the American government
Red apples were becoming extinct
A time when police would shoot red paint balls at people
