Early Cold War Quiz Review

What was U.S. foreign policy of stopping the spread of Communism?

• Containment

• Corralling

• Red Scare

• Communist Bloc

What was the name of the invisible boundary that divided Western democratic Europe and Eastern communist Europe?

• German Solution

• Stalin Shadow

• Iron Curtain

• Communist Bloc

What was the term for aggressively accusing others of being Communist without actually having evidence?

• Marshall Plan

• McCarthyism

• Containment

• Truman Doctrine

What was the name of the incident in which West Berliners became trapped behind the Soviet 'Iron Curtain', resulting in U.S./British forces flying supplies into W. Berlin?

• Communist Bloc

• Berlin Airlift

• Freedom Flight

• Duck & Cover Drop

What is the name of the first satellite ever launched into space by the Soviets in Oct 1957?

• Apollo 1

• Explorer

• Vanguard

• Sputnik

Two Americans convicted and executed for passing on secrets of U.S. nuclear wespons to Soviet spies.

• Oppenheimers

• McCarthys

• Kennedys

• Rosenbergs

What color was normally associated to describe Communism?

• Blue

• Green

• Yellow

• Red

What was the unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro in which CIA-trained exiles invaded Cuba?

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Crisis in the Suez

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Arab-Israeli Conflict

What was the bill that was passed that gave over $13 billion to aid Western European countries to economically recover from WWII?

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Stalin Stopper

• Iron Curtain

What was the organization that included the USSR and all of their 'puppet' Eastern European countries united to defend communism?

• Warsaw Pact

• Allied Powers

• NATO

• CIA