Cold War

Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Fidel Castro

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Nikita Khrushchev

In response to Communist aggression in Greece and Turkey, President Truman outlined a policy known as the ________, which pledged the United States to fight the spread of communism worldwide. 

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctorine

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Berlin Airlift

What separated North Korea and South Korea after the armistice that ended the Korean War? 

• Warsaw Pact

• Panama Canal

• DMZ

• Berlin Wall

What were Communist countries of Eastern Europe that were dependent on the Soviet Union called? 

• satellite nations

• dictatorships

• representative democracies

What was the result of the Korean War?

• Neither side won the Korean War.

• North Korea won and joined with South Korea.

• South Korea won and joined with North Korea.

• Communist China won the Korean War.

Why did the United States conduct the Berlin Airlift in 1948?

• to help get supplies into West Berlin

• to keep the Soviets away from Berlin

• to help people escape from East Berlin

• to drop bombs on the city of Berlin

Which communist country was nearest to the US in the 1960s?

• Soviet Union

• China

• North Korea

• Cuba

What was a consequence of the “Red Scare”?

• Too much money was spent.

• Communism continued to spread.

• Many lives were ruined.

• It led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Which countries were considered superpowers after World War II?

• Korea and Vietnam

• U.S. and Great Britain

• East Germany and West Germany

• U.S and Soviet Union

Which fact about The Cold War is true?

• It was an arms race between US and the Soviet Union.

• The fighting between the US and Soviet Union included trench warfare.

• The Iron Curtain was built to divide communist and democratic countries.

• The US feared the Soviet Union’s spread of democracy.