Cold War Blitz Quiz

The US flying planes over a Soviet Blockade of Berlin to get supplies into West Berlin was called-

• Berlin Airdrop

• Berlin Bombing Raid

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Rain of Generosity

The name of the plan where the US provided financial assistance to Western European countries to rebuild after WW2 was-

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Plan

• McCarthy Plan

• Eisenhower Plan

The first UN multinational force fought the ________ in order to contain communism.

• Baltic War

• Korean War

• 100 years War

• Civil War

What was the competition between the US and USSR to promote science and technology as both try to develop larger nuclear arsenals?

• Nuke Race

• Big Bomb Race

• The Great Race

• Arms Race

_________ was the first man made satellite launched into orbit prompting the space race between the Soviets and the US.

• Kremlin

• Sputnik

• Gulag

• Borsch

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) looked into individuals suspected of ________

• Catholicism

• Barbarism

• Modernism

• Communism

Name of the Red Scare Movement led by Senator Joseph McCarthy to arrest people suspected of communism.

• McCarthyism

• Joe Trials

• Nuremburg Trials

• Salem trials

This, resulted from the prosperity after WW2, baby boom, and increased demand for housing.

• Communism

• Urbanization

• Manifest Destiny

• Suburbs

This helped pay for education of military veterans after WW2 up to the present day.

• Servicemen readjustment act

• GI Bill

• Military Education Bill

• Eisenhower Doctrine

Choose all of the effects of economic prosperity in the 1950's

• increased consumer spending

• growth of the middle class

• interstate highway act

• food stamps