US9 : Cold War tensions

What event in 1957 ignited the United States-Soviet space race?

• The testing of an atomic device by the Soviet Union

• The first manned Mercury mission

• The launch of Sputnik I

• The creation of NASA

Which of the following best describes the term 'McCarthyism'?

• The investigation of subversive activities by HUAC

• The creation of the National Defense Education Act

• The efforts to identify and accuse communists in the US

• The race to build the most powerful military forces

What was the main focus of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the mid-1940s?

• Building bomb shelters

• Creating the National Defense Education Act

• Searching for communists in the United States

• Investigating the Soviet space program

The Arms race between the U. S. and the Soviet Union involved both countries building and stockpiling as many ​ (a)   as possible.

• atomic weapons
• houses
• warships
• fighter jets

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Truman Doctrine

,

(b) Marshall Plan

,

(c) containment

,

(d) domino theory

• stop the spread of communism

• provide assistance to any country wishing to fight off communism

• promote economic recovery and stability in Western Europe

• the idea that the fall of one country to communism will trigger the fall of others