Cold War Quiz

1950 law that required communists to register with the federal government

• Smith Act

• McCarran Act

• Taft-Hartley Act

• National Security Act

1953 play by Arthur Miller that drew parallels between McCarthyism & Salem Witch Trials is called

• The Crucible

• Death of a Salesman

• A View from the Bridge

• All My Sons

1958 law that gave money to improve education in math, science, and foreign languages during the Space Race

• National Defense Education Act

• Higher Education Act

• Elementary and Secondary Education Act

• Education for All Handicapped Children Act

1963 agreement that ended above-ground testing of new nuclear weapons

• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

• Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

• Partial Test Ban Treaty

• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

1968 attack on South Vietnam showing the strength of the Vietcong

• Tet Offensive

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• My Lai Massacre

• Fall of Saigon

1972 talks led by Nixon and Brezhnev concerning ICBM missiles were known as?

• SALT I

• START

• INF Treaty

• New START

1973 law restricting the president’s power as Commander-in-Chief

• War Powers Resolution

• Patriot Act

• National Security Act

• Homeland Security Act

Alliance formed in 1949 among the U.S. and Western European Nations to defend each other in case of attack

• NATO

• UN

• EU

• ASEAN

Anti-communist who headed the FBI

• J. Edgar Hoover

• Robert Mueller

• James Comey

• William Webster

Banned testing of atomic weapons on the earth, in the air, and underwater

• Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

• Geneva Protocol

• Kyoto Protocol

• Paris Agreement