Cold War & Civil Rights

Which group was created during the Cold War to unify all of the member countries against communist aggression?

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• League of Nations

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

After World War II the United States used the Marshall Plan to help European countries rebuild their economies and infrastructure. The United States also provided assistance to Greece and Turkey. One of the reasons for this large amount of assistance was to

• prevent these countries from competing against US products.

• help these countries resist the influence of Communism.

• stop these countries from electing new leaders

• prevent these countries from joining NATO

Which of these most accurately represents the outcome of the Korean War?

• South Korea won

• North Korea won

• the United States won

• Containment was successful

Which of these was an outcome of the "Army-McCarthy Hearings" in early 1954

• McCarthy was court martialed for treason

• The Army continued to send troops to Asia

• McCarthy's accusations of communist infiltration of the government were discredited

• The Army was found to have violated international law in committing war crimes in Korea

Which definition BEST explains the concept of “Vietnamization”?

• a military strategy by the allied forces to bring total war to both North and South Vietnam

• a diplomatic strategy pursued by the international community to reunite North and South Vietnam

• a political strategy by the Nixon administration to transfer military responsibility from allied forces to South Vietnamese forces

• a military and political strategy of the Chinese government to seize control of Vietnam by forcing out the South Vietnamese forces

Which technology was a product of the arms race following World War II?

• the tank

• the radio

• the atomic bomb

• the hydrogen bomb

America responded to the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 by

• boycotting the 1958 summer Olympics

• deploying military forces to eastern Europe

• creating NASA and passing the National Defense Education Act

• increasing government funding for the Navy's nuclear submarine program

Which word best describes the U.S. policy towards communism in the 1950s and 1960s?

• appeasement

• containment

• elimination

• indifference

This chart shows American troop strength during what conflict?

• Gulf War

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• World War II

In order to break the Soviet blockade against West Berlin in 1948, the United States and Great Britain

• blockaded Cuba in retaliation to Soviet actions

• broke off all diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union

• instituted an economic boycott of all imported Soviet goods.

• began an airlift designed to keep West Berlin supplied with goods