Cold War Practice Quiz

What was the high-altitude aircraft that would do spy missions for America by taking pictures from high altitude?

• Saturn V Rocket

• Space Shuttle

• U-2 Spy Plane

• Big Bird

Pushing negotiations to the point just before war breaks out in order to protect national interests is known as_______?

• Civil Defense

• Brinkmanship

• Police Action

• Domino Theory

A thermonuclear weapon that gets its power from splitting a hydrogen atom?

• Atomic Bomb

• Zsar Bomba

• Hydrochloric Bomb

• H-Bomb

The US conducted nuclear weapons tests in this Marshall Island chain

• Bikini Atoll

• Majuro

• Guam

• Belau

A policy of threatening to go to war, particularly nuclear war, in response to any enemy aggression

• Brinkmanship

• Third World

• Iron Curtain

• Marshall Plan

What is the name of the American U-2 Spy plane pilot that was shot down?

• Francis Gary Powers

• Nikita Khruschev

• John Foster Dulles

• Joseph McCarthy

What were the name for countries dominated by the Soviet Union in the eastern part of Europe and beyond?

• Satellite nations

• United Nations

• NATO

• HUAC

The division of Europe between free and communist countries is known as the ______?

• Iron Curtain

• Warsaw Pact

• Truman Doctrine

• Iron Gate

State of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military action is better known as which of the following?

• Cold War

• WWII

• Korean War

• 38th Parallel

The program under which the US gave economic aid to rebuild post war Western Europe is better known as which of the following?

• Marshall plan

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Mao Zedong

• HUAC