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Test review on the Cold War.
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During the 1950's "Red Scare" people who were blacklisted were suspected of being-
feminist
capitalist
imperialist
communist
2
President __________ followed Truman.
Johnson
Eisenhower
Kennedy
MacArthur
3
M.A.D stands for-
Mutually Assured Destruction.
Momentary Allowable Detonation
Mutually Assured Devastation.
Morally Acceptable Destruction.
4
The American Couple accused of being Soviet spies and executed?
The Rosenbergs
The DiMartinos
The Steinbergs
The Rothsteins
5
The Smith Act was passed to make it-
illegal to teach Darwin's evolution in the classroom.
illegal to violate someone's freedom of speech.
unlawful to teach the violent overthrow of the U.S. Gov't
easier for war veteran's to get a job.
6
The line on the map separating communist Eastern Europe from the Democratic West was called -
the iron curtain
the Great Wall
the steel blind
satellite states
7
The day of the U.S. space programs crowning achievement (the first lunar landing) was:
July 20, 1969 and Mr. Dimartino's 4th birthday
June 14, 1965 and Mr. Dimartino's 4th birthday
August 7th, 1969 and Mr. Dimartino's 4th birthday
July 20, 1995 and Mr. Dimartino's 44th birthday
8
The U.S. entry into the space race meant billions of $ spent on a space program and:
the Manhattan Project
economic aid sent to poor countries.
the Apollo mission.
developing an education system to develop future scientists
9
What natural boundary, when approached by U.S. troops brought China into the Korean War?
Pacific Ocean
Yalu river
Lake Superior
Ural mountains
10
HUAC stands for-
Help Undeveloped Asian Countries
Human Under Action Conference
Hawaii undefined Action Conference
House Un-American Activities Commitee
11
In the Truman Doctrine the President was seeking to send what to Turkey and Greece?
15 billion dollars
400 million dollars
500 tanks
the U.S. Marines
12
System where all private property is managed by the government-
favoritism
capitalism
dictatorship
communism
13
NATO is an example of a-
A New Deal program
a defensive alliance
the newest American bomber.
A rare tropical disease.
14
The U.S. policy of containment is best described in which document?
Monroe Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
GATT
The U.N Charter
15
Plan to rebuild post-WWII Western Europe?
Patton Plan
MaCarthur Plan
Truman Plan
Marshall Plan
16
U.S. space agency created in response to Sputnik?
Nassau
Nasser
N.A.S.A
NSA
17
This cartoon represents what example of U.S. containment policy?
Korean War
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Airlift
18
The U.S. Senator who created controversy with his communist "witch hunt"-
MacArthur
Eisenhower
McCarthy
Smith
19
The "Cold War" was a struggle between the U.S. and?
Germany
U.S.S.R
Bulgaria
Japan
20
The leader of Nationalist China after WWII?
Chiang Kai Shek
Tojo
Mao Zedong
Amaral
21
House of Representatives organization that targeted communists?
HUAC
MAD
Hollywood Ten
McCarthy
22
North __________ Treaty Organization was an agreement between the U.S. & it's allies.
Korean
Atlantic
Adriatic
European
23
____________ Airlift is a successful example of containment.
Boston
Bulgaria
Berlin
Baltic
24
The U.S.S.R launched the first satelite into Earth's orbit, causing panic in the U.S., called-
beatnik
sputnik
cosmonik
no goodnik
25
The first U.S. space satelite into orbit was called:
Sputnik
Explorer 1
Uncle Samnik
Orbiter 1
26
Greece and ___________ were mentioed in the Truman Doctrine.
Turkey
France
Bulgaria
Poland
27
The
Hollywood Ten
were?
Top ten box office hits of the 1950's.
Top ten actors to serve in the Korean war.
Writers, directors and producers accused of being Communists
California's ten instructions to deal with a nuclear attack.
28
The term used to best describe U.S. foreign policy after WWII is-
containment
expansion
imperialism
isolationism
29
The leader of Communist China after WWII?
Hitler
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
Tojo
30
Acronym which suggests that there are no winners in a nuclear war?
NATO
NASA
MAD
HUAC.
31
Bulgaria and Hungary were members of what agreement?
GATT
Munich Pact
N.A.T.O
Warsaw Pact
32
In the Twilight Zone Episode "The Shelter" the main character (man in the bomb shelter) is a-
Doctor
Police Officer
Lawyer
Ghostbuster
33
The crisis in the Middle East involving Egypt, the British and French concerned the-
Panama Canal
Suez Canal
Egyptian Oil Reserves
Building of Atomic weapons.