Cold War / Civil Rights Review

There was fear that the USSR had surpassed the U.S. in technology when...

• The USSR launched Sputnik in 1957

• The USSR developed Sonar in 1945

• The U.S. government was infiltrated with spies in 1947

• The USSR landed on the moon in 1959

What term is used to describe the accusing of people of subversive activity without evidence?

• McCarthyism

• Red Scare

• Racism

• Witch Hunt

Which organization had the primary goal of uniting and defending Western Europe against Communism?

• NATO

• NASA

• United Nations

• Warsaw Pact

The U.S. Containment Policy during the Cold War is the best explanation for

• the involvement in the Korean War

• the prosperity of the 1950s

• the Space Race

• the G.I.Bill

What agency investigated people accused of disloyalty to the U.S. in the 1950s

• HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

• NATO (North American Treaty Organization)

• NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration)

• HASCI (House and Senate Communist Investigations)

Which of the follow was NOT a result of the G.I. Bill

• High unemployment for returning veterans

• Low interest home loans for returning veterans

• College degrees for returning veterans

• Post-war economic prosperity

Due to the fear of the spread of Communism in struggling countries, military aid was offered through the

• Truman Doctrine

• NATO

• NASA

• United Nations

This incentive was offered by the U.S. to prevent European nations from turning to Communism:

• Marshall Plan

• NATO Loans

• G.I. Bill

• NASA Grants

What was the greatest reason for growth in new and different areas of the country after World War II

• Federal Interstate Highway Act

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corportation

• Space Race

• Low unemployment

Because of state sponsored atheism in the Soviet Union, the U.S.

• changed its motto to Ïn God We Trust.

• changed its motto to E Pluribus Unum

• added ¨Freedom of Religion" to the First Amendment

• Established Catholicism as the national religion