The Cold War - Study Guide

The term "exacerbate" means:

• To make something worse

• To improve something

• To remain unchanged

• To eliminate something

The Iron Curtain is a term for the division between Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and Western countries.

• A culinary term

• A barrier of wire

• A term for the division between Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and Western countries

• A famous musical composition

How does the Cold War start according to Winston Churchill?

• Hitler pushing the world into communism

• Stalin pressuring nations into the Soviet Union

• Stalin invading other nations

• Declaring that Europe is demonizing communism

What is a "proxy war"?

• A conflict where external powers use third parties to fight on their behalf.

• A war fought directly between two nations.

• A conflict with no involvement from other countries.

• A war that is entirely fought online.

What was the first proxy war of the Cold War? What ideology won?

• Greek Civil War; Communist ideology

• Greek Civil War; Anti-Communist ideology

• Korean War; Communist ideology

• Korean War; Anti-Communist ideology

Which policy provided economic and military aid to free peoples resisting authoritarian regimes, based on the belief that if one country fell to communism then neighboring countries would also fall (the Domino Theory)?

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• NSC-68

• Containment Strategy

What is NATO? When and why was it formed?

• NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, formed in 1949 for collective defense.

• NATO is a United Nations body established in 1945 for maintaining peace.

• NATO is a trade organization formed in 1949 for economic cooperation.

• NATO is an international court formed in 1949 for legal disputes.

When was the first hydrogen bomb created?

• 1953

• 1945

• 1969

• 1955

How are the space race and arms race connected?

• They were interrelated aspects of Cold War competition.

• They were completely unrelated events.

• They pertained to different geopolitical eras.

• They had no influence on each other.

SPUTNIK is recognized as the first artificial satellite.

• The first artificial satellite

• A famous NASA program

• A type of space probe

• A literary work