Cold War Test Review

Which of the following is NOT an example of the United States policy of containment?

• NATO

• McCarthyism

• Truman Doctrine

• Korean War

Based on the quote above, why did George Kennan believe that having the policy of containment would work against the expansion of communism?

• Containment offered a quick solution to Soviet expansion.

• Containment offered a plan for keeping communism contained within existing borders.

• Containment offered a way to appease the Soviet Union

• Containment offered a way of using nuclear weapons to prevent Soviet expansion.

The term “Cold War” refers to

• the rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union for international dominance

• the struggle between Japan and China for control of Asia

• the early years of World War II in Europe

• the conflicts between Israel and the Arab states

What was the Marshall Plan?

• a plan to reconstruct a unified Germany

• a strategy for defeating the Soviet Union if they attacked NATO

• a plan to take over Russian satellite nations

• a plan to economically rebuild Europe

Why did the US government want to produce a hydrogen bomb after learning that the Soviet Union had developed the atomic bomb? (6.2)

• The US wanted to drop the bomb on the Soviet Union to win the Cold War.

• The US wanted to gain an advantage in the arms race with the Soviet Union.

• The US had fewer atomic weapons than the Soviet Union.

• The US wanted to sell the hydrogen bomb to the Hungarian government to help them gain their independence from the Warsaw Pact.

Which of the following was an important precedent set during the Korean War?

• The US had sent military forces to war in Asia for the first time.

• US forces had allied themselves with communists to fight totalitarianism.

• The President had committed military forces to battle without a congressional declaration of war.

• Congress had ordered military forces into action over the opposition of the President.

Fear of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) kept the Soviet Union and the United States

• from producing large stockpiles of nuclear weapons

• on friendly terms throughout the entire Cold War

• from ever using a nuclear weapon against each other

• from ever officially admitting that they had nuclear weapons

McCarthyism” is a term used to describe

• unproved accusations against alleged Communists in the government

• the policy of massive retaliation

• anxiety over the threat of nuclear war

• the CIA’s covert war in Iran

Which of the following was President Truman’s major contribution to the Civil Rights movement and desegregation?

• he ordered the desegregation of major league baseball

• he ordered the desegregation of the armed forces

• he ordered federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas

• he ordered the desegregation of all public places

The Soviet launch of the satellite Sputnik in 1957 led to all of the following except

• Increased emphasis on math and science education

• increased cooperation on space flight between the Soviet Union and the US

• the creation of NASA

• the great “Space Race” to the moon