1950s Cold War

North Korea and South Korea are divided at the 38th Parallel. This area is known as...

• DMZ

• No Man's Land

• Death Strip

• TNT

Communist leader of China that rose to power in the 1950s?

• Kim Jong Un

• Joseph Stalin

• Mao Zedong

• Fidel Castro

Who was fired for criticizing President Truman's policy of not invading China during the Korean War?

• General Dwight D. Eisenhower

• General George Patton

• General Douglas MacArthur

• General Washington

What was the purpose of "duck and cover" drills?

• to prepare citizens for a nuclear attack

• to show the rest of the world how to handle a nuclear attack

• demonstrate to the USSR the U.S. was not afraid of a nuclear attack

• to create fear in society

Fear of communism within the U.S.

• McCarthyism

• Bolshevik Revolution

• Red Scare

• Red Dawn

The successful testing of the hydrogen bomb led to the...

• Arms Race

• Space Race

• MAD

• All of the choice

The Korean War is still going on.

• True

• False

Who was the first country to explore space by launching a satellite in 1958?

• U.S.

• U.S.S.R

• China

• Great Britain

The name of the first satellite launched into space?

• Tsara

• Sputnik I

• Saturn

• Apollo

"the ability to get to the verge without getting into war is the necessary art" - Dulles, what is this quote referring to?

• U.S. containment policy

• U.S. MAD policy

• Soviet Union expansion policy

• U.S. brinksmanship policy