Cold War 2024 MCQ Test

First Name

Last Name

Period

• Period 1
• Period 2
• Period 4
• Period 5
• Period 7

The competition between the US and the Soviet Union to develop technology to successfully land on the Moon

• Space Race
• NASA
• Vietnam
• Cuba

Separated into two countries: communist North led by Ho Chi Minh and capital South led by Diem

• Sputnik
• Cuba
• Vietnam
• Korea

1945 meeting with US President FDR, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Stalin during WWII to plan for the world after WWII

• Space Race
• Containment
• Yalta Conference
• United Nations

What was the name of the American foreign policy designed to stop the spread of communism?

• Appeasement
• Deterrence
• Containment
• Detente

Became President when FDR died; gave the order to drop atomic bombs on Japan

• Harry Truman
• Douglas MacArthur
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Richard Nixon

The capital of Germany was separated by the

• Berlin Wall
• 38th Parallel
• United Nations
• Bay of Pigs

What was the name of the latitudinal border that once separated North and South Korea before the Korean War?

• 22nd Parallel
• 1st Parallel
• 38th Parallel
• 15th Parallel