Unit 6 - Cold War

The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that many feared could lead to a nuclear war was called the

• cold war

• arms race

• iron curtain

• Berlin airlift

The imaginary line that separated free Western Europe from Communist Eastern Europe was known as the

• communist shield

• capitalist-communist divide

• iron curtain

• steel door

Following World War II, international politics was dominated by which two world powers?

• the Soviet Union and China

• the Soviet Union and Germany

• the United States and Great Britain

• the United States and the Soviet Union

Why did President John F. Kennedy order the US Navy to blockade Cuba in 1962?

• to prevent Cuba from selling nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union

• to contain an outbreak of Spanish flu from reaching the United States

• to keep communism from spreading to other countries in Latin America

• to stop Soviet ships from transporting additional weapons to Cuba

Use the quotation to answer the following question. What was the "iron curtain" that Churchill referred to in this quotation?

• the Berlin Wall that surrounded the western zones of occupation in Berlin

• a dark and gloomy mood that was felt throughout postwar Europe

• the separation between the industrialized world and the developing world

• an invisible line that divided communist Europe from Western Europe

The United States believed that if one country fell to communism, other countries would fall, too. This idea was known as

• realism.

• Marxism.

• the domino theory.

• the containment principle.

Nikita Khrushchev brought the world to the brink of nuclear war when he

• launched Sputnik 1.

• built the Berlin Wall.

• put missiles in Cuba.

• blockaded Berlin.

Who led a national campaign to identify communists who were secretly working in the US government and army?

• Ivan Allen, Jr.

• Richard Nixon

• Joseph McCarthy

• Herman Talmadge

The nations that formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed to

• block trade with and prohibit travel to any communist nation.

• come to the aid of any other member nation if it were attacked.

• provide food and supplies to countries in need under Soviet control.

• promote peace by ratifying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Korean War was a part of what larger conflict involving the United States?

• the Cold War

• the Persian Gulf War

• the Bosnian War

• the Yom Kippur War