Early Cold War Quiz Review

Airlifting all necessary supplies was a response to

• the Berlin Blockade

• the Truman Doctrine

• the Marshall Plan

• the Korean War

In order to create collective security, allied countries formed

• NATO

• the Warsaw Pact

• the Marshall Plan

• the Truman Doctrine

In order to counteract/oppose the power of NATO, this was formed

• the Berlin Wall

• the Warsaw Pact

• the Berlin Airlift

• the Marshall Plan

A result of the Korean War is that

• North & South Korea were still divided along the 38th parallel.

• General MacArthur was given the green light to use nuclear weapons against China.

• Communist fears in the United States were decreased.

• China gained control of all of the Korean peninsula.

The idea that everyone has the same beliefs and values; fitting into the same mold as everyone else

• Conformity

• formalism

• conventionality

• reaction

Construction of suburban housing and schools was a result of ____ in the 1950s & 1960s.

• baby boom

• Korean War

• GI Bill

• bomb shelters

The GI Bill helped returning WWII soldiers with ________

• college tuition

• a year's unemployment

• federally granted loans at low interest rates

• All of these

American society in the 1950s expected women to

• take part-time jobs

• manage the household

• go to college

• work in day-care centers

The growing middle class and growing “white flight” to suburbia left many city governments without the funds was a negative result of

• the growing middle class of the 1950s

• the building of Levittowns that were poorly built

• the building of the Interstate Highway system

• the affordability of the automobile

The belief that there were Communist agents in social and political institutions in the United States caused

•  the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s and the investigations of a Senate committee headed by Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s

  
  

• Excessive spending by the United States military

• The corruption and bribery of members of Congress

• Actions of President Harry Truman that might have led to his impeachment