Cold War Test

Which statement describes how the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved?

• President John F. Kennedy ended the Cuban trade embargo

• Fidel Castro negotiated a peaceful settlement.

• The communist government in Cuba was overthrown.

• The Soviets agreed to remove their missiles from Cuba.

Into which country did General Douglas MacArthur want to expand military operations during the Korean War?

• Cuba

• China

• Vietnam

• The Soviet Union

What could have been the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis had a peaceful agreement not been met?

• A nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

• The United States would invade and take control of Cuba.

• The United States losing nuclear weapons to the Soviets.

• The Cuban people would be greatly affected by the blockade from the United States.

What caused the Red Scare?

• The fear of the spread of democracy in the United States.

• The fear of the spread of socialism in the United States.

• The fear of the spread of disease in the United States.

• The fear of the spread of communism in the United States.

What fear prompted the United States into entering the Space Race?

• The shame of losing WWII

• The fear that weapons could be sent from space

• Research confirming the existence of life in space

• None of these

"I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department."

-Senator Joseph McCarthy

Senator McCarthy gave this quote following World War II as a response to what?

• War in Korea

• Increase in Communist fears

• Growth of industry

• Increase in undocumented immigrants

What leader of the FBI helped to get information on people who were suspected of being communists?

• Robert Mueller

• J. Edgar Hoover

• Joseph McCarthy

• Clarence Kelly

The Cold War began due to confrontations over post-WWII decisions made about which part of the world?

• Africa

• Europe

• Middle East

• North America

What was one cause for the start of World War II?

• A cause for WWII is the anger Germany had about losing land at the end of WWI.

• The leaders of the Axis powers wanted all countries to be fascist countries.

• Hitler wanted revenge against the political leaders who put the blame on Germany.

• The German government wanted more landed in order to build businesses to make back the money they lost after WWI

“Seventy thousand people were killed instantly, and many more would die –60,000 by November and other 70,000 by 1950. Most of them would be victims of a new method of killing—radiation.”

What is being described in the above passage?

• the blitzkrieg of Poland by the Nazi army

• the attack on Pearl Harbor

• the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

• the internment of Japanese-Americans