The Cold War Quiz

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The Cold War was really a conflict between which two ideologies?

• Capitalism vs. Socialism
• Communism vs. Capitalism
• Socialism vs. Communism
• Nationalism vs. Capitalism.

The United States supports which ideology?

• Communism
• Socialism
• Militarism
• Capitalism

The Soviet Union supported which ideology?

• Capitalism
• Militarism
• Communism
• Socialism

Which of the following occurred during the Red Scare?

• Many innocent people were investigated and sometimes arrested for others thinking they were communist spies.
• Many democrats were arrested.
• Many communists in the Soviet Union were arrested.
• People who refused to cooperate with investigations were sent back to work.

What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

• To divide east Germany and west Germany
• To provide food and supplies to Berlin
• To isolate democratic Berlin from communist Berlin
• The build a physical iron curtain that separating communists from democrats

Who “won” the Space Race by getting a man on the moon first?

• Korea
• The Soviet Union
• The United States
• Vietnam

A military operation led by the United States to help residents of West Berlin by delivering food and supplies to them by airplane.

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Berlin Airlift
• Iron Curtain
• Korean Conflict

Who was the President of the United States who declared that the U.S. would win the Space Race by getting a man on the moon before the Soviet Union?

• President John F. Kennedy
• President Harry Truman
• President Lyndon B. Johnson
• President Richard Nixon

A political and economic system in which the government owns all of the businesses and land and people have very little individual freedoms.

• Capitalism
• NATO
• Nationalism
• Communism