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Cold War Unit Test Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

All of the following describe the 38th parallel EXCEPT

a)

Heavily guarded

b)

The latitude line or boundary between N. and S. Korea

c)

The test site for the hydrogen bomb

d)

Only created after WWII

2.

Which sentence is correct?

a)

The arms race was between Germany and the US to see who could be the first to win WWII.

b)

The arms race was between the US and the Soviet Union to see who could build up the most powerful weapons the fastest.

c)

The Chinese communists fled to the island of Taiwan after the Chinese civil war.

d)

The Red Scare was a horrible illness that spread through Europe after WWII because of a lack of health care and hospitals.

3.

Which three numbers represent Communist countries during the Cold War?

a)

All of them

b)

4

c)

4 and 3

d)

4, 3 and 2.

4.

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.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

5.

Which one of these statements describe a benefit of Communism?

a)

Eliminates poverty

b)

Rich and poor have the chance to move up or down

c)

State uses fear and/or violence to enforce

d)

States controls media

6.

The Red Scare was...

a)

The fear of Communism in America

b)

A terrible illness that swept through Europe after WWII

c)

The nickname for fallout from a nuclear attack

d)

The attempt by the Soviet Union to cut off West Berlin

7.

All of the following were decided at the Yalta/Potsdam conferences EXCEPT...

a)

How to divide Germany

b)

Giving Eastern Europe free elections

c)

How to divide the Korean peninsula

d)

The Soviet Union's role in defeating Japan

8.

Who aided the North Koreans in their fight to control the entire Korean Peninsula?

a)

China and the Soviet Union

b)

China and Japan

c)

US and South Korea

d)

Soviet Union and South Korea

9.

Who was the principal scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project?

a)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Alger Hiss

d)

Dwight Eisenhower

10.

The invisible dividing line between Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic/Capitalist Western Europe

a)

Warsaw Pact

b)

38th Parallel

c)

Iron Curtain

d)

Berlin Wall

11.

Who helped to rebuild Japan after WWII and led the military during the Korean Conflict only to be fired?

a)

Julius Rosenberg

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Dwight Eisenhower

d)

Douglas MacArthur

12.

What happened on September 2, 1949?

a)

The Soviet Union invaded Germany

b)

The Soviet Union tested an atom bomb

c)

Th US tested the hydrogen bomb

d)

The Chinese communists won the Chinese Civil War

13.

A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II

a)

KGB

b)

CIA

c)

HUAC

d)

NATO

14.

The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control

a)

Warsaw Pact

b)

Domino Effect

c)

Containment

d)

Red Scare

15.

Former WWII general who believed in sending troops to fight Communist overseas

a)

Harry Truman

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

Dwight Eisenhower

d)

Alger Hiss

16.

Believed in containment and using nuclear weapons when necessary

a)

Harry Truman

b)

Julius Rosenberg

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Douglas MacArthur

17.

To offer collective protection to the Communist satellite states was known as the...

a)

Warsaw Pact

b)

Nato

c)

Containment

d)

Mutually Assured Destruction

18.

The Marshall Plan

a)

Sent money and troops into Europe to help rebuild after WWII and to stop communism from spreading

b)

Was the secret project to develop nuclear weapons

c)

Was the idea of pushing into North Korea to stop communist forces

d)

Was a detailed blue print on how to build a bomb shelter

19.

The hydrogen bomb was...

a)

1,000 times less powerful than an atom bomb

b)

1,000 times more powerful than an atom bomb

c)

Tested and used on Japan

d)

Tested in China after the communists took control in 1949

20.

What is containment?

a)

The idea of keeping communism within the Soviet Union and its satellite states

b)

The plan to prevent radiation from spreading

c)

The plan to invade South Korea

d)

The crisis in Egypt over the Suez Canal