
1950s Vocabulary Quiz
Authored by Douglas Freiwald
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11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
This alliance, formed in 1949, united 12 Western nations to prevent the spread of communism.
Warsaw Pact
Club Europa
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
European Union
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Worldwide U.S. military support for people who were resisting the spread of communism.
Roosevelt Doctrine
Monroe Doctrine
Big Stick Policy
Truman Doctrine
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Massive amounts of U.S. economic aid provided to western European countries after WWII to try and ‘jumpstart’ their economies.
Marshall Plan
Nato
Truman Doctrine
Warsaw Pact
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Soviet leader during the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Putin
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Term originated by Winston Churchill to describe the ‘barrier’ that the Soviets had established between communist nations and the West.
Trump Wall
British Blockade
Iron Curtain
USSR Fence
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
A local military activity without a declaration of war.
Police Action
Nuclear intervention.
Unarmed intervention.
Peaceful Protest
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
A philosophy that kept the Superpowers from attacking one another directly because each had the nuclear capability to completely destroy the other.
Mutual Combat
Mutually Assured Destruction
Armageddon
The Apocalypse
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