Cold War Quiz

Why was the Cold War considered “cold”?

• War took place in Russia
• Lack of communication between countries
• No actual fighting took place
• Spread of isolationism

America’s goal during the Cold War was to:

• Colonize the Philippines
• Return to isolationism
• Stop the spread of communism
• Limit investments to other countries to rebuild economy

During which event did the Soviet Union tried to starve out the democratic government in West Berlin in order to turn it communist?

• Bay of Pigs
• Berlin Crisis
• Missile Crisis
• U-2 Incident

The Soviet Response to NATO was:

• NAFTA
• Warsaw
• Watergate
• EU

All of the following embarrassed the US during the Cold War except:

• Bay of Pigs
• U-2 Incident
• Iran Hostage Crisis
• Fall of the Berlin Wall

The iron curtain was a metaphor for what?

• Newly designed tanks
• Berlin Wall splitting up communist East and democratic West Berlin
• The might of the US military
• Divide between communist and democratic countries in Europe

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world has ever been to:

• Atomic War
• The collapse of democracy
• Ending communism
• Creating a new United Nations

Joseph McCarthy used what to take out his political enemies?

• Pentagon Papers
• Watergate scandal
• Red Scare
• Political cartoons

The idea that if one country falls to communism then the countries neighboring that country are now at risk of falling to communism is known as:

• Domino Theory
• Red Scare
• McCarthyism
• Imperialism

One reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 was to:

• promote reunification of East Germany and West Germany
• keep East Germans from fleeing to the Western sector of Berlin
• complete the post–World War II rebuilding of Berlin
• meet the requirements of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)