U.S. History Review

What was the term 'iron curtain' used to describe the division of?

• North and South Vietnam

• East and West Asia

• North and South Korea

• East and West Europe

What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?

• Spain and Portugal
• England and France
• Germany and Italy
• United States and Soviet Union

Who made the statement "An Iron Curtain has descended across the continent"?

• President Roosevelt
• Joseph Stalin
• Winston Churchill
• President Harry Truman

Why did the U.S. enter the Korean War?

• It did not want another country to fall to communists
• It did not want another country to be split
• It wanted to attack North Korea
• It wanted to sell more weapons to its allies

What year did the Korean War begin?

• 1940
• 1950
• 1970
• 1960

Which statement describes the Marshall Plan?

• An alliance designed to combine the forces of all democratic nations in Western Europe
• An economic plan to spend 12.5 billion dollars on reconstructing Western Europe
• A failed military plan to cripple communist influence in Western Europe
• A peace treaty with the Soviet Union that was ultimately rejected

How did the US respond to finding out that the Soviets had missiles in Cuba?

• They sent the Air Force to bomb Cuba
• They began placing missiles in the Soviet Union.
• They placed a naval blockade around Cuba.
• They invaded Cuba and the Soviet Union.

Dramatic increase in birth rate, especially in the years following WWII. This was due to so many people working and making a better living.

• Baby Boom ­

• Baby Gap

• GI Bill

• Transistor

_____________ rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the ruling of unsegregated public places.

• Freedom Rides

• National Organization for Women

• United Farm Workers

• Counterculture

What president assured the nation that "we shall overcome" when he signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

• Harry Truman