Cold War

How did the Marshall Plan aim to contain the spread of communism?

• It built up the western European armed forces.

• It helped rebuild and strengthen European economies.

• It forced Americans to take loyalty oaths to avoid losing their jobs.

• It created a military alliance among western European and North American nations.

Which choice best describes the Second Red Scare ?

• the use of military force to put down civil unrest in American cities

• the use of accusations, blacklisting, and investigations against suspected communists

• the effort to expand civil rights protections to more groups of Americans

• the use of unethical searches and unfounded proclamations of a planned communist revolution in America  by Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer

Why did the United States not share the plan to develop the atomic bomb with the Soviet Union during World War II?

• The Soviet Union already had an atomic bomb.

• The United States did not trust the Soviet Union.

• The Allies would have been against its development on moral grounds.

• Scientists were unsure if they would be successful.

What is NATO?

• A military alliance between Western European Countries, the U.S. and Canada.

• A military alliance between Western European Countries, the Soviet Union and China.

• A military alliance between Eastern European Countries, Including the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.

• A military alliance between Eastern European Countries.

Which of the following terms refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union that began at the end of WWII and lasted until 1991?

• Iron Curtain

• Soviet-Communist War

• Korean War

• Cold War

What is significant about the 38th parallel?

• It divides Western and Eastern Europe, this line is also described as the Iron Curtain

• The division between North and South Korea

• The division between China and North Korea, also known as the Iron Curtain.

• The 38th parallel was the location of all communist satellite nations.

Which statement best describes the primary focus of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s?

• to prevent the admission of Red China to the United Nations

• to prevent the integration of various racial groups in U.S. society

• to investigate radical groups in order  to find disloyal Americans

• to place quotas on the number of immigrants entering the U.S. 

Based on your knowledge of the cartoon, which of the following items most accurately describes the source

• It is depicting the Cuban Missile Crisis

• It is depicting the Berlin Crisis

• It is depicting the Bay of Pigs

• It is depicting the Berlin Blockade 

The launch of Sputnik I intensified Cold War tensions and caused the —

• United States to increase spending on technology, education and weapons to compete with the Soviet Union

• Soviet Union to move missiles and warships to Cuba in order to threaten the United States

• United States to send troops and aid to East Berlin to free it from Soviet control

• Soviet Union to threaten Europe with nuclear attack if Soviet airspace were violated

Which statement best explains how the United States responded to the presence of the "Iron Curtain"?

• The United States established a blockade of East Berlin.

• The United States worked to stop the spread of communism.

• The United States withdrew from its European alliances

• The United States declared war on the Soviet Union.