Unit 7: Cold War (American History)

Marriages delayed due to World War II resulted in what after WWII?

• Economic demise

• The baby boom

• Increase in teen marriages

• The Great Depression

What is it called when private citizens control economic activity?

• Facism

• A Command Economy

• A Capitalist Economy

• Democracy

What was passed by Congress shortly before the end of World War II that provided economic aid to veterans?

• The GI Bill

• Child Tax Credits

• The Airmen Bill

• The Doughboy Bill

Which Communist Dictator did the U.S try to overthrow at the Bay of Pigs Invasion (Cuba) just off of the mainland US coast?

• Josef Stalin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Nikita Kruschev

• Fidel Castro

China was the Communist country that supported North Korea during the Korean Conflict against U.N. and U.S. forces?

• True

• False

The Warsaw Pact and NATO were involved in a competition of "one-upmanship" where each wanted to accumulate the most and best weapons, this is referred to as the _______ _______.

The Warsaw Pact was organized by the Soviet Union and its satellite nations in response for perceived threats from ____________.

Joseph McCarthy accused up to 205 State Department employees of being what in the early 1950s?

• Disloyal

• Patriots

• Communists

• Draft Dodgers

Who set up the Berlin Blockade in an effort to force the U.S. and Great Britain to leave Berlin after WWII?

• Germany

• The Soviet Union

• The Warsaw Pact

• The United Nations

The main goal of the __________ ___________ was containment of the spread of Communism.