Unit 11

When Winston Churchill discussed the falling of an "iron Curtain" across Europe he was warning of

• Increasing tension between non-communist and communist nations
• the militarism and development of rival alliances that led up to WWI
• concerns related to communist infiltrators in the United States government
• the potential that the Soviet Union will be able to develop atomic weapons

During the Red Scare, figures such as Senator Joseph McCarthy

• recruited Americans to spy on the Soviet Union.
• increased fears of communist spies living in the country.
• negotiated peaceful settlements to proxy wars.
• worked to develop scientific advances to maintain superiority in the space race.

A similarity between the Korean War, Vietnam War, Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan is that each was

• an attempt to push back a direct attack on US territory
• an effort during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism
• initiated due to pressure of the American public
• a direct military conflict between the communist and non-communist world

President Richard Nixon’s policy of détente was meant to

• slowly turn the war in Vietnam over to the South Vietnamese
• spy on political rivals
• ease tensions between the United States and communist nations.
• ensure a strong system of checks and balances against this opposition party in congress

The map below provides information on which topic?

• Alliances during World war II
• membership in the United Nations
• Division of Communist and non-communist nations
• European colonialism

Which term best describes the practice shown in the image below?

• socialism
• integration
• segregation
• populism

The situation shown in the image in the previous question demonstrates the operation of

• the black codes
• the literacy test
• the slave codes
• the Jim Crow laws

Actions like sit-ins, freedom rides and the arrest of Rosa Parks where a person breaks an unjust law peacefully and accepts the punishment in order to arouse the conscience of the community are known as

• Affiramtive Action
• Boycotts
• Grassroots Campaigns
• Civil Disobedience

When Ernest Green and the other Members of the Little Rock Nine were escorted by Federal Troops into Little Rock Central High School, the troops were enforcing the Supreme Court ruling

• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
• Roe v. Wade