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Cold War quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Marshall Plans

a)

A plan for US to stop China from taking over Europe

b)

A plan for US to aid Russia

c)

A plan for US to aid Europe

2.

How much money did the US initially give to help Europe's economic recovery?

a)

$17 billion

b)

$100 billion

c)

$17 million

d)

$170 million

3.

What was the Truman Doctrine?

a)

President Truman declared war on the Soviet Union

b)

Truman's oath as President

c)

Truman's declaration to Congress that the US needed to help stop communism

d)

When President Truman nominated George C. Marshall

4.

Which nations were mainly apart of the space race?

a)

China & US

b)

Japan & USSR

c)

US & USR

d)

US & USSR

5.

Who built the Berlin Wall?

a)

Soviet Union

b)

NATO

c)

US

d)

China

6.

Which statement best describes the ‘Iron Curtain’ ?

a)

The division between East Germany and West Germany

b)

The division between communist Europe and non-communist Europe

c)

The division between East Berlin and West Berlin

d)

The division between North Korea and South Korea

7.

What happened as a result of the launch of Sputnik in 1957?

a)

It started the space race.

b)

U.S. began to invest more money into math & science education.

c)

The U.S. started NASA.

d)

All of the above

8.

During what event did the U.S. bypass to get around the Soviet's blockade ?

a)

Berlin Airlift

b)

Cuban Missile Crisis

c)

Korean War

d)

Vietnam War

9.

How did the Cuban Missile Crisis end?

a)

Soviets removed the missiles in Cuba in response to a U.S. blockade

b)

United States responded by placing missiles of its own in China

c)

United States declared war on the Soviet Union

d)

Break up of the Soviet Union into independent countries

10.

Which of the following was created by the communists in response to the formation of NATO?

a)

Axis Powers

b)

United Nations

c)

League of Nations

d)

Warsaw Pact

11.

Which term best describes the linking of nations through trade, information, technologies, and communication?

a)

Globalization

b)

Servicing

c)

Outsourcing

d)

Travel

12.

What event kick started the Cold War?

a)

Hiroshima & Nanjing

b)

Hangzhou & Nanjing

c)

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

d)

Hangzhou & Nagasaki

13.

The belief that if one nation fell to communism, more would is called...

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

Marshall Plan

c)

Domino Theory

d)

Containment

14.

Started by Joseph McCarthy, this was an all-out hunt for communist in the United Stated

a)

Trumanism

b)

Rosseveltism

c)

McCarthyism

d)

Stalinism

15.

The Truman Doctrine was supposed to stop the spread of communism by giving countries

a)

money

b)

weapons

c)

computers

d)

new leaders

16.

Which one of these is not ideal of communism?

a)

Government controls all means of production.

b)

Abolishment of private property

c)

A progressive income tax structure that is higher on the rich.

d)

Classless utopian society

17.

Who was the leader of the Communist party?

a)

Emperor Hirohito

b)

Deng Xiaoping

c)

George W. Bush

d)

Mao Zedong

18.

Which of these beliefs made the U.S. decision to join the Vietnam War?

a)

Domino Theory

b)

Mutually Assured Destruction

c)

Detente

d)

U-2 Incident

19.

Which organization is made of military allies of the US during the Cold War?

a)

NATO

b)

Warsaw Pact

c)

Non-Aligned Movement

d)

Bay of Pigs

20.

Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

a)

Harry Truman

b)

Dwight Eisenhower

c)

Robert Kennedy

d)

John F. Kennedy