Cold War Exam

A governmental action that was consistent with the Cold War mentality was the

• establishment of loyalty reviews of government employees
• reduction in military defense spending
• elimination of the Central Intelligence Agency
• adoption of the GI Bill of Rights

__________________ was a US spy plane being shot down over USSR in 1960.

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Bay of Pigs
• U2 Incident
• Warsaw Pact Experiment

Which of the following people would have benefited from the GI Bill?

• A US marine returning home from the Pacific who wants to buy a home
• A sailor who served in the war who has been accused of a crime
• A member of the WACs who was wounded in combat
• Both A and C

____________________began when forces crossed the 38th Parallel. Ended with a cease-fire.

• World War II
• Cold War
• Russo-Japanese War
• Korean War

What country did the Allies divide after WWII?

• China
• France
• Germany
• Italy

Which is generally a characteristic of a communist economy?

• investment is encouraged by the promise of large profits
• the role of government in the economy is restricted by law
• government agencies are involved in production planning
• entrepreneurs sell shares in their companies to the government

Following World War II, the United States adopted which of the following policies towards Soviet Communism?

• Containment
• Aggression
• Pacifism
• Acceptance

Television shows, advertising, and a number of "scientific books suggested that women should fulfill what roles during the 1950s?

• wife and mother
• wife, mother, and worker
• wife and career woman
• single career woman

Berlin Wall was

• destroyed after World War II by the USSR
• created to stop the large flow if refugees from East Germany.
• planned to hinder the HUAC from hunting communists.
• the cause of the Second Red Scare.

When former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, said, "an iron curtain has descended across the continent," to what was he referring?

• The threat Hitler posed to Europe.
• Hitler's invasion of France
• The dropping of the atomic bomb
• The postwar division of Europe