WorksheetsCold War vocabulary
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations.
a)
House Un-American Activities Committee
b)
NATO
c)
Hollywood Ten
d)
Warsaw Pact
2.
A list of people or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval; associated with McCarthyism.
a)
Sputnik
b)
Black list
c)
Venona Papers
d)
Policy of Containment
3.
Secret collaboration of the U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies involving decoding messages sent by intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union.
a)
Marshall Plan
b)
Venona Papers
c)
Collective security
d)
38th parallel
4.
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods by air into West Berlin after its supply lines were cut off.
a)
Berlin Airlift
b)
Korean War
c)
Satellite Nation
d)
U-2 Incident
5.
US spy plane shot down in Soviet airspace in 1960.
a)
Satellite Nation
b)
Iron Curtain
c)
Policy of Containment
d)
U-2 Incident
6.
Military, political, and ideological barrier established between the Soviet bloc and Western Europe from 1945 to 1990. Coined by Winston Churchill.
a)
Soviet Atomic Threat
b)
Iron Curtain
c)
Eisenhower Doctrine
d)
Mao Zedong
7.
Program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II.
a)
Loyalty Review Boards
b)
NATO
c)
Marshall Plan
d)
Warsaw Pact
8.
Policy promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression.
a)
Iron Curtain
b)
Brinkmanship
c)
Eisenhower Doctrine
d)
Marshall Plan
9.
Ruthless dictator of Russia during World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War.
a)
Joseph Stalin
b)
Hollywood Ten
c)
Joseph McCarthy
d)
Mao Zedong
10.
A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S.
a)
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
b)
House Un-American Activities Committee
c)
Collective security
d)
ICBM
11.
"Duck and cover" and other precautions meant to protect against the effects of nuclear explosions were started in the USA due to the…
a)
Soviet Atomic Threat
b)
Korean War
c)
Sputnik
d)
Iron Curtain
12.
Nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union.
a)
38th parallel
b)
Hollywood Ten
c)
NATO
d)
Satellite Nation
13.
Conflict fought in the early 1950s between the U.N., supported by the United States, and the communists , supported by China & Russia. Known as the “Forgotten War”.
a)
Berlin Airlift
b)
U-2 Incident
c)
Korean War
d)
Black list
14.
Guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of 5,500 kilometers primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery.
a)
ICBM
b)
Iron Curtain
c)
NATO
d)
Sputnik
15.
First artificial satellite in Earth’s orbit; launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
a)
Brinkmanship
b)
Sputnik
c)
U-2 Incident
d)
ICBM
16.
Trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict; think “playing chicken”.
a)
Loyalty Review Boards
b)
Policy of Containment
c)
Brinkmanship
d)
Venona Papers
17.
Strategy to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
a)
Policy of Containment
b)
Berlin Airlift
c)
Joseph McCarthy
d)
Marshall Plan
18.
Chinese Communist leader and theorist. A founder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921.
a)
Joseph McCarthy
b)
Joseph Stalin
c)
Mao Zedong
d)
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
19.
The cooperation of several countries in an alliance to strengthen the security of each.
a)
Eisenhower Doctrine
b)
Satellite Nation
c)
Hollywood Ten
d)
Collective security
20.
Group of motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who were mostly blacklisted for failing to cooperate with anti-communist investigations.
a)
Hollywood Ten
b)
Joseph McCarthy
c)
Warsaw Pact
d)
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
21.
Republican Senator from Wisconsin who led a campaign against Communists in US society and government in the 1950s.
a)
Joseph Stalin
b)
Joseph McCarthy
c)
Sputnik
d)
Marshall Plan
22.
United States citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted, and executed for conspiracy to commit espionage.
a)
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
b)
Venona Papers
c)
Iron Curtain
d)
Warsaw Pact
23.
First general loyalty program in the United States, designed to root out communist influence in the U.S. federal government.
a)
Hollywood Ten
b)
Collective security
c)
Loyalty Review Boards
d)
Black list
24.
Military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to counter USSR.
a)
Iron Curtain
b)
Warsaw Pact
c)
ICBM
d)
NATO
25.
Following World War II, the Korean peninsula was divided by the communist-backed North Korea and the anti-communist Republic of South Korea along this line.
a)
Brinkmanship
b)
38th parallel
c)
Satellite Nation
d)
U-2 Incident
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