WorksheetsCold War Unit Test Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
All of the following describe the 38th parallel EXCEPT
Heavily guarded
The latitude line or boundary between N. and S. Korea
The test site for the hydrogen bomb
Only created after WWII
Which sentence is correct?
The arms race was between Germany and the US to see who could be the first to win WWII.
The arms race was between the US and the Soviet Union to see who could build up the most powerful weapons the fastest.
The Chinese communists fled to the island of Taiwan after the Chinese civil war.
The Red Scare was a horrible illness that spread through Europe after WWII because of a lack of health care and hospitals.
Which three numbers represent Communist countries during the Cold War?
All of them
4
4 and 3
4, 3 and 2.
Mutually Assured Destruction was the idea that through the build up of nuclear weapons both the Soviet Union and the US would be discouraged from attacking each other because each knew the other one would immediately retaliate and both sides would be destroyed.
TRUE
FALSE
Which one of these statements describe a benefit of Communism?
Eliminates poverty
Rich and poor have the chance to move up or down
State uses fear and/or violence to enforce
States controls media
The Red Scare was...
The fear of Communism in America
A terrible illness that swept through Europe after WWII
The nickname for fallout from a nuclear attack
The attempt by the Soviet Union to cut off West Berlin
All of the following were decided at the Yalta/Potsdam conferences EXCEPT...
How to divide Germany
Giving Eastern Europe free elections
How to divide the Korean peninsula
The Soviet Union's role in defeating Japan
Who aided the North Koreans in their fight to control the entire Korean Peninsula?
China and the Soviet Union
China and Japan
US and South Korea
Soviet Union and South Korea
Who was the principal scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Albert Einstein
Alger Hiss
Dwight Eisenhower
The invisible dividing line between Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic/Capitalist Western Europe
Warsaw Pact
38th Parallel
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
Who helped to rebuild Japan after WWII and led the military during the Korean Conflict only to be fired?
Julius Rosenberg
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
What happened on September 2, 1949?
The Soviet Union invaded Germany
The Soviet Union tested an atom bomb
Th US tested the hydrogen bomb
The Chinese communists won the Chinese Civil War
A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II
KGB
CIA
HUAC
NATO
The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control
Warsaw Pact
Domino Effect
Containment
Red Scare
Former WWII general who believed in sending troops to fight Communist overseas
Harry Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight Eisenhower
Alger Hiss
Believed in containment and using nuclear weapons when necessary
Harry Truman
Julius Rosenberg
Albert Einstein
Douglas MacArthur
To offer collective protection to the Communist satellite states was known as the...
Warsaw Pact
Nato
Containment
Mutually Assured Destruction
The Marshall Plan
Sent money and troops into Europe to help rebuild after WWII and to stop communism from spreading
Was the secret project to develop nuclear weapons
Was the idea of pushing into North Korea to stop communist forces
Was a detailed blue print on how to build a bomb shelter
The hydrogen bomb was...
1,000 times less powerful than an atom bomb
1,000 times more powerful than an atom bomb
Tested and used on Japan
Tested in China after the communists took control in 1949
What is containment?
The idea of keeping communism within the Soviet Union and its satellite states
The plan to prevent radiation from spreading
The plan to invade South Korea
The crisis in Egypt over the Suez Canal
