Module 21 - The Cold War

What was the primary purpose of the United Nations?

• to give countries a way to expand their borders
• to provide a forum to peacefully resolve disputes
• to allow countries to declare war on other countries
• to distribute economic and military aid to third world countries

What started the Korean War?

• North Korea invaded South Korea.
• South Korea wanted some of North Korea’s land.
• North Korea wanted to be part of the United Nations.
• South Korea was being blockaded by the Soviet Union.

What ended up proving that Alger Hiss was a spy?

• Soviet cables released in the 1990s
• investigations conducted by McCarthy
• newspaper reports from the time period
• information uncovered in Senate hearings

Because he always made his accusations against people while he was in the __________, Joseph McCarthy had immunity that protected him from being sued for slander.

• Senate
• Supreme Court
• United Nations
• State Department

Eisenhower’s “open skies” proposal would allow both the United States and the Soviet Union to __________.

• send satellites into outer space
• fly planes over each other’s land
• point nuclear weapons toward the clouds
• have clean air that was free of pollution

What was one of Nixon’s first applications of détente?

• He visited China.
• He pulled troops out of Vietnam.
• He agreed to the ideas of realpolitik.
• He appointed Henry Kissinger as secretary of state.

Why did Ford receive criticism from some Americans for the way he handled the Mayagüez incident with Cambodia?

• They felt that he should have used the principles of détente.
• They felt that Cambodia had done little to provoke military action.
• They were upset that more men were lost in the mission than were saved.
• They were worried that the Soviet Union might retaliate because of Ford’s actions.

What did Berliners do in 1989 to show that they no longer wanted to be Communist?

• They elected their own leaders.
• They tore down the Berlin Wall.
• They started a war with the Soviet Union.
• They asked to be part of the United Nations.

totalitarian government

• United States
• Soviet Union

democratic republic form of government

• United States
• Soviet Union