US History M5 Checkpoint

Which of the following resulted from McCarthyism during the 1950s?

• Membership in the US Communist Party increased
• US Citizens were arrested for being suspected communists
• Recruitment procedures for the US military branches were reformed
• US diplomats began to express dissenting political viewpoints more freely

Where was the Truman Doctrine first used?

• Berlin
• Hungary
• Czechoslovakia
• Greece

What was the mutual defense alliance of non communist nations?

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Truman Doctrine

• Open Skies

What organization was created by Congress to hunt for communist spies?

• Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA)
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• House Un-American Activites Commitee (HUAC)

How did the United States respond to the Soviet Union’s Berlin blockade?

• airlifted supplies to the people of Berlin
• withdrew its troops from Germany
• sent troops into the Soviet zone of Germany
• built a wall between East Berlin and West Berlin

Why is the Cold War called a "cold" war?

• The areas affected were in the polar regions of the world
• The war was fought during winter months only
• Leaders of the superpowers were sick with coughs and fevers
• There was never direct fighting between the two superpowers

For what crime were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg found guilty and put to death?

• perjury
• murder
• espionage
• embezzlement

What vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, would have kept FDR out of his wheelchair?

• Polio
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Rickets
• HIV/AIDS

One of the benefits that the GI Bill of Rights offered to returning veterans was ___.

• counseling 
• low-interest loans 
• free homes 
• government jobs 

A US Senator from Wisconsin who made claims that there were a large number of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers in the US Federal Government in the early 1950’s. 

• Lyndon Baines Johnson
• John F Kennedy
• Fidel Castro
• Joseph Mcarthy