Cold War Quiz

According to Winston Churchill, what was dividing Europe between the communist East and the democratic West?

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

• Iron Curtain

• Nuclear weapon

What was the main cause of the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union after WWII?

• the Soviet Union's support of Germany

• differences in government and economic beliefs

• rivalry for control of nuclear missiles

• the conflict between North and South Korea

What TWO messages did the Berlin Airlift send?

• The United States was concerned about the nuclear arms race.

• The Soviet Union was not interested enough to continue to divide Berlin.

• Berlin was able to get through conflict without outside help.

• Western Allies were not willing to allow the Soviet Union to have Berlin.

• The United States was determined to stop the spread of communism.

Why was the Berlin Wall built?

• to keep Americans from entering the U.S.S.R.

• to keep East Germans from entering West Germany

• to keep Germany from invading Great Britain.

• to keep the U.S.S.R from invading West Germany

What was the Truman Doctrine?

• a policy to contain the spread of communism

• the space race

• a program to develop the hydrogen bomb

• the antiwar movement

The Cold War was mostly a competition between the United States and

• Great Britain

• Soviet Union

• Germany

• Poland

What event in the 1960s brought the world close to a nuclear war?

• Apollo Project

• Berlin Wall

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union was a rivalry between what two forms of government?

• communism and dictatorship

• democracy and monarchy

• communism and socialism

• communism and democracy (capitalism)

The Korean War ended in 1953. Which of the following is an EFFECT of the Korean War?

• The two parts of Korean reunited.

• Korea remained a divided country.

• China took control of North Korea.

• The Soviet Union took over South Korea.

Read the following information and decide who is being described: *He was senator during the 1950s *He wanted to find communists in the US * His work was part of the Red Scare * His ideas became unpopular

• Joseph McCarthy

• Joseph Stalin

• Harry Truman

• Martin Luther King, Jr.