beginning cold war

What country launched Sputnik I in 1957?

• The U.S.
• Soviet Union
• England
• India

When Communist countries formed the Warsaw Pact, what organization was founded to oppose them?

• The United Nations
• NATO
• NAFTA
• NAFTA

What is the dividing line between North and South Korea?

• The Korean Wall
• The 38th Parallel
• The Yalu River
• The Free Zone

What type of music was considered a threat to American culture in the 1950s?

• Gospel

• Country and Western

• Hip-Hop

• Rock and Roll

What is a Cold War?

• War fought with nuclear weapons

• War fought with Icicles and Ice cubes instead of guns and bullets

• War fought indirectly with words and ideologies. No fighting.

• War fought in the ocean

What is the Warsaw Pact?

• An alliance of communists nations

• The alliance that the U.S.A. joined

• A group in America that wanted to create unions

• Another name for the Truman Doctrine

Define the "Domino Theory."

• If a country wants to become communist they have to pay the USSR

• When a war starts, everyone gangs up on one country

• If one nation falls to Communism, others around it will as well

• People started to play Dominoes and nobody ever fought a war again

What does the 38th parallel separate?

• Separates West Germany from East Germany

• Separates North Korea from South Korea

• Separates the Union from the Confederacy

• Separates North America from South America

What is "containment" means?

• Stop the spread of cancer

• Stop the spread of Communism

• Stop the spread of Democracy

• Stop the spread of money

Why did the USSR's Joseph Stalin block the city of Berlin from getting supplies after WWII?

• He wanted to make the people dependent on communist Germany for their needs

• He hated Berlin

• The railroads were broken and still needed to be fixed after the war

• The people of Berlin were very wealthy and did not need his help