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WorksheetsThe Cold War
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which best describes communism?
Government is not involved in economy
Business owners sell shares of their companies to the government
Government is involved in planning and production
Investment is encouraged by government
Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis "scare" Americans
Communist Cuba was taking over American businesses
The Bay of Pigs invasion almost failed
Soviets were financing Cuba
Cuba was within nuclear missile shooting range of American cities
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...
helped the CIA break a Soviet spy ring
supported Senator McCarthy in exposing communists
were executed for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
Opposed the Soviet blockade of Berlin
How did Truman help the people of West Berlin?
By airlifting supplies, such as fuel and food, into the city
He didn't
He sent American troops and tanks to break into the city
He protested in the United Nations
Why weren't nuclear weapons used during the Cold War?
The Domino Theory
The Marshall Plan
Mutually assured destruction
Strategic defensive initiative
How did the US support Chinese Nationalists during the Chinese Civil War?
America supported the Communists, not the Nationalists
By sending millions of dollars in financial aid
By proposing changes through the UN
By sending troops to China
The National Security Act established the...
Center of Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Department of State
The US and the Soviet Union were stockpiling weapons in an effort to have more weapons than the other side. This was called...
the Korean War
the Manhattan Project
the arms race
disarmament talks
What happened to many eastern European countries after WWII?
They were dependent on the Marshall Plan
They developed democratic governments
They became economic world powers
They became Soviet satellite states
The Eisenhower administration is responsible for the ___________, which is still important today.
cable TV
landing on the moon
interstate highway system
communication satellite system
What happened at the Bay of Pigs?
The Soviets attempted to install nuclear weapons in Haiti
The Soviets invaded Hungary
The US tried to overthrow the Cuban communist government
A meeting in the Soviet Union to develop the Warsaw pact
Why is the Cuban Missile Crisis so important?
It was the closest we have come to total nuclear war
It was a signal to the world that Cuba was vulnerable
It helped create NATO and the Warsaw Pact
It created an alliance between the Cubans and the Americans
Who won the space race?
The Soviet Union
The United States
What was the US plan with regard to containment?
To provide money to secure communist government around the world
To try to reach a consensus policy toward the Soviet Union
Appeasement
To stop the spread of communism by aiding nations in danger
Churchill called the imaginary line between Soviet satellite states and western Europe.....
NATO
The Iron Curtain
The Berlin Wall
The Great Wall
The Cold War was between the US and
Korea
China
Germany
The Soviet Union
Which two nations emerged as superpowers after WWII?
Soviet Union and Germany
US and Great Britain
France and Great Britain
US and Soviet Union
The Marshall Plan
provided money and food to help western European nations
gave more power to the president to identify communist spies in the US
was the plan to feed starving Berliners
united the American armed forces
