The Cold War Test Review SS5H5

Which US President went against (had a "showdown") Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• JFK ( John F. Kennedy)

• Lincoln

• Roosevelt

• Truman

What Impact did the TV have on the Vietnam War?

• It made more people support the war.

• It made more people NOT support the war.

Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• JFK

• Fidel Castro

• Hitler

During the Cold War, the imaginary line dividing Europe into two sides of democracy and communism.

• The Velvet Curtain

• The Iron Curtain

• The Berlin Wall

What were Americans most scared of during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Naval Blockade
• McCarthyism
• Soviet Spies
• Nuclear War

What was the purpose of NATO?

• To provide supplies to communist Berlin
• To prevent communism from spreading to other countries
• To prevent democracy from spreading to other countries
• To divide communist from non-communist countries

Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" to describe...

• The division of communism and non-communism in Berlin
• The division of communism and non-communism in Europe
• The division of communism and non-communism in Korea
• The division of communism and non-communism in Vietnam

Why was it called a "Cold War"?

• It was a war of nuclear weapons
• It happened in the winter time
• It happened after atomic bombs were dropped
• It was a war of threats with no fighting

When aircrafts dropped supplies such as food, water, fuel, and medicine into West Berlin to the noncommunist citizens trapped there by the Soviet blockade

• Berlin Wall
• Berlin Airlift
• Iron Curtain
• Cuban Missile Crisis

Why did the Korean War start?

• The North invaded the South

• The South invaded the North

• The East invaded the West

• The West invaded the East