Cold War and Life in the 50s

NATO and the Warsaw Pact are both examples of:

• treaties
• mutual defense organizations
• constitutions
• weapons

The Korean War was part of the Cold War struggle between the U.S. and (the):

• UK
• France
• USSR
• Mexico

The soviet action of blockading Berlin caused the U.S. and G.B. to start (the)

• Operation Berlin
• World War III
• Oscars
• Berlin Airlift

The man who tried to confirm American's fears of wide spread Communist infiltration was:

• Joseph McCarthy
• Harry Truman
• Joseph Stalin
• Jim Donovan

The U.S.'s response to the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik was:

• to reduce defense spending
• built a joint space station with the USSR
• build anti-missile defense systems
• provide new funding for science and math education

General MacArthur was relieved of his command in the Korean war because he-

• nuked China
• publicly criticized Truman
• escaped to the USSR
• wanted to live a quiet life

When an armistace was signed ending the Korean war:

• N. and S. Korea were still divided along the 38th parallel
• S. Korea became Communist
• Communist fears were lifted in the U.S.
• China gained control of entire peninsula

The primary goal of the containment policy was to:

• limit the use of atomic bombs
• bring war criminals to justice
• stop the spread of Soviet influence
• end colonialism in Africa and Asia

The term Iron Curtain refers to the:

• heavily fortified border btw Poland and the USSR
• boundary btw W. Europe and Communist E. Europe
• border btw E. Europe and the USSR
• boundary separating E. Europe from E. Germany

The United States gave billions of dollars in aid to Western Europe-

• to counteract containment
• in violation of the Berlin Airlift
• as part of the Marshall Plan
• to protest the creation of NATO