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WorksheetsCold War
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 17mins
What were the defining characteristics of the Cold War?
Prohibition, Flappers, Jazz
Arms Race, Space Race, Red Scare
Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Pearl Harbor
Poverty, Unemployment, Dust Bowl
What foreign policy guided American presidents during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism?
Open Door Policy
Dollar Diplomacy
Big Stick Policy
Containment
What American policy provided Western European countries financial assistance so they could recover from WWII?
Marshall Plan
Domino Theory
Truman Doctrine
Big Stick Policy
What individual/group contributed to the Red Scare and accused American citizens of being communists?
Martin Luther King & Black Panthers
Jane Addams & Settlement Houses
Joseph McCarthy & HUAC
Cesar Chavez & United Farmworkers Union
What happened as a result of the launch of Sputnik in 1957?
It started the space race.
U.S. began to invest more money into math & science education.
The U.S. started NASA.
All of the above
How did the G.I. Bill contribute to the economic prosperity of the 1950s?
It decreased consumer spending.
It allowed Veterans to get an education and buy homes in suburbs.
It offered incentives under the Bracero Program to temporary laborers.
It created federal domestic programs as part of the Great Society.
Read the passage.
“During Harry Truman’s presidency, food and supplies were dropped to the people of Berlin, Germany. They were experiencing starvation because of blocks set up by the Soviet Union.”
What was the "drop" called?
VJ Day
Berlin Wall
Communist Containment Policy
Berlin Airlift
How was the Cold War different from previous wars involving the United States?
Previous wars were fought between the United States and European countries, and the Cold War was fought between the United States and the China.
The Cold War refers to the political and economic tension between the United States and the Soviet Union-not an actual war.
The Cold War was fought in the cold climate region of the Soviet Union, whereas previous wars were fought in warmer climate regions.
The Cold War battles were fought with more modern weaponry since it took place in the 1960s.
To expand trade with Europe
To limit the build up of nuclear weapons
To stop the spread of communism (Greece and Turkey)
to send financial aid to Europe
What caused Consumerism to begin?
Everyone needed more food to consume after the war
I honestly don't know
The U.S. and its citizens had extra money saved up, and mass production became huge
The U.S. wanted more workers to flee to the country
What is Consumerism?
A population needing lots of food
The word sounds like communism so basically the same thing
The idea of encouraging society to consume products, services, etc.
A population overly consuming products for its own economy to withstand
Suburbia as the "American Dream" represented
conformity.
stability.
happiness.
All of the above
They were accused of being communist spies for the Soviet Union, they were executed by the US federal government for their crimes.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Elvis Presley
The Rosenbergs
Alger Hiss
The act of making an allegation without having proper regard for evidence.
McCarthyism
Beatnicks
GI Bill
Suburbs
Type of music or musical genre created after World War 2, during the 1950s, it evolved from R&B music that was being played in African American communities in the 1940's, this music style became an international phenomenon after Elvis Presley debuted in March 1956.
Rock n' Roll
Beatnicks
Red Scare
Suburbs
Beatnik
an elderly person in the 1920s who suffered financial loss.
the fact or process of converting someone or something back to a former state.
a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.
This was a type of music which challenged earlier music and was popular to teenagers.
Space and exploration forever changed American life by the following:
Decrease in math funding
Increased focus on math and science classes and better quality of life
Decrease in science classes
Less technologicial advances
