Cold War Unit Post-Test

Many Americans thought that the Soviets planned to take control of the entire world. On the other hand, the Soviets thought America was interfering in world affairs and trying to strengthen its nuclear arms. This resulted in a conflict known as the ________.

• Soviet American War

• World War Arms Race

• Berlin Air Strike War

• Cold War

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

The Cold War was not a war of weapons and armies. It a war of beliefs, ideas, and mutual threats/suspicion. It was a competition between which two nations to create and stockpile the most dangerous weapons?

• Ireland and Great Britain

• Soviet Union and the United States

• Korea and Vietnam

• China and Japan

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Which agency gathered information on the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

• The Secret Service

• The FBI

• The CIA

• Cuban Exiles

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Soviet threats caused one U.S. President to quadruple the amount of money that America was spending on defense during the Cold War. This money went to strengthen the military and develop atomic weapons technology. Which U.S. President did this?

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt

• President Herbert Hoover

• President Harry S. Truman

• President John F. Kennedy

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

What was the competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to see who could have the most destructive weapons aimed at the other known as? (It created a very dangerous threat to the world.)

• Soviet Marathon

• Universal Missile Race

• Cold War Missile Battle

• Arms Race

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Which two global conflicts did America enter during the Cold War, to help prevent communism spreading in those countries?

• Korean War and Vietnam War

• Spanish American War and Cuban War

• Cuban War and Vietnam War

• World War II and Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cold War ended in 1991 because of which event?

• The Vietnam War ended.

• The Berlin Wall fell.

• The Soviet Union collapsed.

• Fidel Castro surrendered.

In Cuba, the U.S. spy planes photographed Soviet troops building missile sites in Cuba. What did President John F. Kennedy send in order to prevent the Soviets or any other country from sending supplies, weapons, and missiles to the island of Cuba?

• a naval blockade

• a nuclear missile attack

• a telegram message

• bomber planes

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba as long as President John F. Kennedy promised ___________.

• not to send troops to Cuba.

• not to invade Cuba in the future.

• to send money and supplies.

• to give him more weapons.

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Which crisis during the "Cold War" demonstrated that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were willing to use nuclear weapons against one another for fear of retaliation. It ended in 1963, when the United States and the Soviet Union signed the "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty". What did this treaty ban?

• It banned naval ships entering the island of Cuba.

• It banned communism.

• It banned testing nuclear weapons above ground, under water, or in space.

• It ended the "Cold War"