The Cold War Quiz

The Cold War was fought between which two superpowers AND which two ideologies?

• USA (Democracy) and Germany (Fascism)

• USSR (Democracy) and Italy (Fascism)

• USA (Communism) and USSR (Democracy)

• USA (Democracy) and USSR (Communism)

The political climate after World War II leading up to the Cold War caused the world's two superpowers to

• cooperate in halting the spread of communism

• colonize Africa and Asia

• compete economically and militarily

• protect human rights

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact are examples of

• mutual defense

• dollar diplomacy

• Lend-Lease

• Manifest Destiny

The term Iron Curtain refers to

• scars left on the land by the trenches of World War I

• no-fly zone in northern Iraq after the Persian Gulf War

• border established between India and Pakistan after World War II

• western boundary of Soviet domination in Europe during the Cold War

The US policy of containment, justified by George Kennan's 1947 analysis of the international situation, called for

• blocking the expansion of the Soviet Union’s influence

• curbing United States foreign investment to limit involvement in world conflict

• liberating Eastern Europe form communism

• dividing Germany into zones administered by the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union

This commemorative stamp was issued 50 years after the Marshall Plan. George Marshall was honored because he had

• insisted that Germany and the other Axis Powers pay for starting World War II

• proposed economic aid from the United States to rebuild the economies of European nations

• formed the European Union so that Western Europe could rebuild its own economy

• encouraged Western European nations to accept aid from the Soviet Union

Who did the US support in the Korean War

• South Korea

• North Korea

• China

• USSR

Which of the following did NOT occur as part of or a result of the Korean War? Mark only one oval.

• The border between North and South Korea was restored at the 38th parallel

• The Korean Peninsula became the site of prolonged, unresolved tensions

• Korea was unified and is fully democratic

• China allied with North Korea and helped fight off UN troops

Levittown, with its precisely-planted trees, its 27-step assembly-line construction, and its identical floor-plans, was the first major example of

• a private suburban housing development in the postwar era

• government-subsidized housing projects

• a commercial zoning development which attracted manufacturing plants

• housing in segregated African American neighborhoods

The widespread fear of Communism in the United States during the 1950s was called the

• The Space Race

• The First Red Scare

• The Second Red Scare

• Stalinization