US2 Skinny Midterm Review

Which of the following funded the building of more than 40,000 miles of highways?

• The International Highway Act

• The Interstate Highway Act

• The National Highway Act

• The National Highway Law

The House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Protested racial segregation in the armed forces.
• Investigated disloyalty and harmful foreign influences in the United States. 
• Investigated U.S. involvement in the Korean War and its lack of progress towards victory.
• Tried to deport all foreigners or Un-American peo

What does this map represent

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment plan

• Marshall Plan

• NATO Alliances

President Truman adopted a new foreign policy during the Cold War know as the Truman Doctrine. What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?

• To expand trade with Europe
• To limit the build up of nuclear weapons
• To stop the spread of communism
• to send financial aid to Europe

The "Red Scare" was launched by ___________________ who dominated US politics and sent suspicion of communism through the US.

• Senator Joe McCarthy

• General Douglas MacArthur

• Arthur MacArthur

• Senator Micheal Scott

McCarthyism has become known as

• The Blue Monster

• The Witch Hunt

• The Red Scare

• The Red Death

Why did Americans build bomb shelters during the Cold War?

• The USSR threatened to use their hydrogen bomb

• The US government recommended it

• They were afraid of nuclear warfare

• A law was passed that all new homes had to have one

The Iron Curtain divided what continent? 

• Asia
• North America 
• Europe 
• Africa 

Eastern Europe was capitalist and western Europe was communist.

• True

• False

What ideological boundary represented Soviet domination & oppression in Europe? (Mostly Eastern Europe)

• Berlin Wall

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

• Iron Curtain