Cold War

In 1946, the British Prime Minister said in a speech that an "Iron Curtain" had fallen across the European continent.  This "Iron Curtain" was

• another name for the English Channel which separated Great Britain from attack.
• a wall built between two countries controlled by Nazi Germany and France.
• another name for the Alps which protected Eastern Europe from the Soviet Union.
• an imaginary line that separates Eastern Europe's communist countries from Western Europe's democratic countries.

At the end of of World War II, conflict arose between the United States and the Soviet Union.  This was because the two countries wanted to promote their forms of government.  This conflict was called:

• isolationism
• Cold War
• Iron Curtain
• conflict

Under which form of government is the means of production and the nation and capital resources owned by the government?

• McCarthyism
• Imperialism
• Communism
• Capitalism

Who was the first man to set foot on the moon?

• Neil Armstrong

• Lance Armstrong

• Charles Lindbergh

• Joseph Stalin

What important entertainment industry influenced Americans the most in the 1950's and 1960's?

• Movies

• Television

• Newspapers

• Radio

Define Communism

• people taking a chance to start a new business

• government having control of businesses and property

• free enterprise and economic growth encouraged by government

• democratic government with personal freedoms and economic opportunity

What is communism?

• When the government controls all decisions

• when the people control all decisions

• US trying to prevent beliefs from spreading

• the government of the US

Which 2 superpowers were involved in the Cold War?

• Britain and the Soviet Union
• France and Germany
• Japan and the Soviet Union
• The U.S. and the Soviet Union

A new type of conflict that developed between the Soviet Union and the United States that involved competition in everything they did.

• the Cold War

• the Civil War

• the World War

• the Economic War

The United States has a democratic government which means ____________________________.

• Citizens choose representatives to make laws and a Constitution lists freedoms and rights.

• Citizens do not choose representatives to make laws and the country is run by a dictator.