The Cold War Test Review

During what event did U.S. airplanes drop food and supplies to the people in West Berlin?

• Berlin Airlift
• World War II
• British Air Raid
• Soviet Food Drive

I was a senator in the 1950s.
I wanted to find Communists in the US.
My work was part of the Red Scare.
My ideas became unpopular.
Who am I?

• Henry Ford
• Charles Lindbergh
• Joseph McCarthy
• General Eisenhower

In 1950, Korea fought a civil war over the spread of communism.  Communists from the north tried to take over the south.  What role did he US play in this war?

• The US and its allies went to Vietnam to fight Korean Communists.
• The US and its allies did not join the Korean War.
• The US and its allies join the fight to keep communism from spreading.
• The US and its allies fought to defend the North.

What does the ‘Iron Curtain’ symbolize? 

• The division between East Germany and West Germany
• The division between East Berlin and West Berlin
• The division between communist Europe and noncommunist Europe 
• The division between North Korea and South Korea

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Who were the two participants in the Space Race?

• The US and Cuba
• The USSR and US
• China and US
• US and North Vietnam

Which of the following choices best describes the U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War?

• Containment of communism

• Whoever smelt it dealt it

• The enemy of my enemy is my friend

• Whoever supplied it denied it

• The War on Terror

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What was the name given to the buildup of weapons during the Cold War?

• Space Race

• Bombageddon

• Arms Race

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Nuka-palooza

How did the Korean War end for the United States?

• It was considered a defeat for the United States

• It ended in a stalemate (the border did not change; neither side gained any territory)

• The Korean War caused the U.S. to win the Cold War

• The Korean War ended with all of Korea becoming a democracy.

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Type of government where the government owns everything and makes all the decisions.

• Constitutional monarchy

• Direct democracy

• Republic

• Communist

Which leader came up with the term "Iron Curtain"?

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Harry Truman

• John F. Kennedy

• Winston Churchill

• Nixon Bunch