Chapter 19/20 Formative Assessment

After World War 2, a widespread fear of ___________ swept through the United States

• Germans

• communism

• a stock market crash

The United States and its allies used ______ to get supplies to citizens of Berlin after they had been cut off by the Soviets.

• underground tunnels

• air drops

• spies

The major strategy for stopping the spread of communism was known as ______

• containment

• appeasement

• isolationsm

The international peacekeeping body designed to prevent another global war

• Washington Conference

• League of Nations

• Berlin Congress

• United Nations

The October 1957 event that triggered the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union

• Explorer I

• Dropping of atomic bombs

• Launching of Sputnik

• Launching of Apollo 11

Wisconsin Senator who used bullying tactics and accused the federal government of being over-run with communists

• Harry Truman

• Joseph McCarthy

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Richard Nixon

In the aftermath of World War II, birth rates in the United States ___________

• increased

• decreased

• did not change

As the highway system expanded, citizens began to leave large cities and move to smaller, surrounding towns known as ____________

• Hoovervilles

• suburbs

• barrios