Cold War Quiz

The Senator from Wisconsin who was part of the hysteria over communism in the USA.

• Joseph McCarthy

• JFK

• LBJ

• Harry Truman

The US had a policy of ________ in regards to communism as they did not want it to spread elsewhere.

• Appeasement

• Regiment

• Isolation

• Containment

The period after WWII in which the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state is known as what?

• Blue Scare

• Green Scare

• Yellow Scare

• Red Scare

What was the name of the failed attempt to overthrow of the Cuban government during 1961.

• Land of Pigs

• Bay of Pigs

• Sea of Hogs

• Bay of Hogs

What was the 13 day stand off between the Soviet Union and USA called? It included a U2 spy plane being shot down, a naval blockade, an agreement to reduce nuclear weapon sites in Cuba and Turkey and was under JFK's administration.

• Cuban Missile Bargain

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Soviet Missile Bargain

• Soviet Missile Crisis

What was an example of a proxy war during the Cold War?

• WWI

• WWII

• Korean War

• Civil War

Cold War was fought between what two nations.

• Soviet Union

• Germany

• France

• USA

What side did the USA try to fight for during the Korean War?

• North

• East

• South

• West

True or False: The Soviet Union fell in 1991 ending the Cold War.

• True

• False

• IDK

• Maybe

A series of investigations and hearings to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government

• McCarthyism

• Stalinism

• Rooseveltism

• Kennedyism