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Cold War at Home: Review

Authored by Christina Steppi

Social Studies

12th Grade

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Cold War at Home: Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What organization was created by Congress to hunt for communist spies?

Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
House Un-American Activites Commitee (HUAC)

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Protested racial segregation in the armed forces.
Investigated disloyalty and harmful foreign influences in the United States. 
Investigated U.S. involvement in the Korean War and its lack of progress towards victory.
Tried to deport all foreigners or Un-American peo

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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First general loyalty program in the United States, designed to root out communist influence in the U.S. federal government.

Hollywood Ten 
Collective security
Loyalty Review Boards
Black list

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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I the 1950's Senator Joseph McCarthy won national attention when he...

Was convicted as a spy.
Claimed hundreds of government employees were communists.
Helped Eisenhower become president.
Went to Korea and said atomic weapons should be used to break the stalemate.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Shelters such as this represented American concern about 

the potential threat of domestic terrorism in the 1950s
the increasing number of natural disasters in the 1950s
a potential nuclear attack during the Cold War
a successful launch of a Soviet satellite into space.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A marked increase in the birthrate, especially in the US following WWII

Baby Boom
Summit
Perjury
Arms Race

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The vast majority of new homes in the 1950’s were built here

suburbs
cities
barrios
sub-divisions

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