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Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 1hrs 7mins
I wanted to find Communists in the US.
My work was part of the Red Scare.
My ideas became unpopular.
Who am I?
I was the leader of the USSR.
I wanted to put nuclear missiles on Cuba. I served as leader until 1964.
Who am I?
How much money did the u.s. donate to Europe?
1billion
50billion
13billion
15billion
What guaranteed citizens of the United States, 18 years or older, the right to vote?
NATO
26th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
19th Amendment
Which is a military operation led by the United States after World War II? The residents of West Berlin,Germany, were blockaded by the Soviet Union. Led by the United States, Western nations delivered food and supplies to them by airplane.
Iron Curtain
Communism
Joseph McCarthy
Berlin Airlift
Which is the political idea that all property should be publicly owned and managed by a central government?
Iron Curtain
NATO
Nuclear War
Communism
A dispute during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had built missile sites in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy set up a naval blockade of the island until Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered the missiles removed.
26th Amendment
Vietnam War
Cuban missile crisis
Korean War
An imaginary line in Europe separating nations of the West, such as the United States and European countries, and the Soviet Union and its allies.
proxy war
Tet Offensive
propaganda
Iron Curtain
A fighter who, as part of a small group, does not fight directly, but makes surprise raids or quick attacks from under cover.
embargo
refugee
diplomacy
guerrilla
A conflict from 1964 to 1975, between the Communist North Vietnamese and the U.S.-supported South Vietnamese.
Vietnam War
Korean War
proxy war
Cold War
What did Americans fear after the end of WWII?
The spread of democracy
The spread of NATO
The spread of communism
The spread of capitalism
Which of the following is a way in which democracy is different than communism?
Communism allows the government to run the country and democracies allow the military to run the country.
Democracies give the citizens the power to make choices and communism gives the power to the government.
Communism allows the citizens to decide how the government is run and democracies are run by the military.
Democracy believes all property should be shared and communism does not.
Why did the Soviets begin constructing nuclear missile sites in Cuba?
It was in response to President Eisenhower working to end the Korean War.
It was in response to President Kennedy sending Cuban exiles to invade Cuba.
It was in response to President Truman joining NATO.
It was in response to President Kennedy sending ships to form a blockade.
Why did the United States get involved in the Korean War?
to get a close relationship with China
to help the Soviet Union win the war
to take over acres of land in North Korea
to prevent the spread of communism
Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis so significant in the Cold War?
It was the first conflict between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
It was the closest the world had ever come to a nuclear war.
It led to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
It was the end of the conflict between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.
How did the U.S. respond to finding out that the Soviets had missiles in Cuba?
They began placing missiles in the Soviet Union.
They placed a naval blockade around Cuba.
They invaded Cuba and the Soviet Union.
They sent the Air Force to bomb Cuba.
• president of the United States from 1961 until 1963
• agreed to increase the number of U.S. military forces in Vietnam in 1961
• was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963
Which U.S. president is being described here?
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
television coverage showed Americans what was happening in the war
• the U.S. drafted young men in order to get more soldiers to fight
• troops from North Vietnam proved hard to beat and showed they would not give up
How did the issues listed above impact the U.S. in the Vietnam War?
The U.S. government started giving more war powers to the president.
Reporting the news became more important as an industry than it had been before.
People started to fear that communism would spread to the United States.
Many Americans started to think the U.S. should not be involved in the war.
Why did the United States enter into the Korean and Vietnam wars?
to decrease the threat to democracy in Japan
to promote trade in Asian countries
to stop the spread of communism
to protect important historical sites
What did the "Iron Curtain" symbolize?
The best areas for mining iron in Europe
The divide between democracy and communism
The border between North and South Korea
The Ho Chi Minh Trail
The United States and its allies were in favor of this government type:
theocracy
communism
socialist
democratic
Which of the following choices best describes the U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War?
Containment of communism
Whoever smelt it dealt it
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Whoever supplied it denied it
The War on Terror
What was the name given to the buildup of weapons during the Cold War?
Space Race
Bombageddon
Arms Race
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nuka-palooza
Which event signaled the end of the Cold War?
Cuban Missile Crisis
end of the Vietnam War
collapse of the Soviet Union
fall of the Berlin Wall
What was the purpose of NATO when it was created?
To guard against the Spanish Inquisition
To regulate the price of oil on the world market
To protect its members from the Soviet Union and communism
To remove all trade barriers and increase trade between North American countries
To be the first to put a man on the moon
Type of government where the government owns everything and makes all the decisions.
Constitutional monarchy
Direct democracy
Republic
Communist
Which leader came up with the term "Iron Curtain"?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
Nixon Bunch
Who falsely accused people of being communists?
Harry Truman
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Stalin
Who was the first man to walk on the moon's surface on July 20, 1969?
John Glenn
Alan Shepard
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
On July 16, 1969, three U.S. astronauts set off on the Apollo 11 space mission to attempt the...
first lunar (moon) landing
first orbit of the Earth
first journey into outer space
Which country was the first to send a man into space?
Soviet Union
United States of America
