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Worksheets1950s-1960s Cold War
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
The fear of communism spreading:
Red Scare
Containment
Nativism
Democratic Whiplash
Although he won many military achievements, Truman fired this general during the Korean War:
Patton
MacArthur
Eisenhower
Stalin
In 1957, the USSR successfully launched this satellite into space:
Hubble Telescope
Gemini 2
Apollo 11
Sputnik
Which presidential election witnessed the first, live television debates between Nixon and Kennedy?
Election of 1956
Election of 1960
Election of 1952
Election of 1964
Who was the first person to travel to space and successfully return to Earth?
Yuri Gagarin
Alan Shepherd
John Glenn
Neal Armstrong
Who was the 1st person from the United States to travel to space and successfully return to Earth?
John Glenn
Yuri Gagarin
Neal Armstrong
Alan Shepherd
What "politically tense" event began in 1962 when the U.S. discovered that the USSR had placed ICBM missile sites in Cuba?
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Laika disaster
U-2 incident
What was the name of John F. Kennedy's political programs to encourage cultural growth and economic improvement?
New Frontier
Great Society
New Deal
Square Deal
Which married couple was accused, tried, and executed for selling nuclear secrets to the USSR?
Fred and Wilma Flintstone
George and Jane Jetson
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt
In 1956, John Dulles said the U.S. was willing to risk war in order to state our interests/goals. What did the U.S. call this policy of pushing close to the edge of war?
Space Race
Brinkmanship
Containment
