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Ideological Conflict Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was  the United States Senator who went on a hunt in the U.S. for communist.
a)
Nikita Khrushchev
b)
Joseph McCarthy
c)
Joseph Stalin
d)
JFK
2.
This is the name of the Organization that was created by Western European Countries, America and Canada to help contain the spread of Communism.
a)
United Nations
b)

Warsaw Pact

c)
League of Nations
d)
NATO
3.
In 1946, Winston Churchill used the term “Iron Curtain "when describing conditions in Europe. What did he mean by this term?
a)

European nations needed to build more factories

b)

Peace had finally spread throughout the countries of Europe.

c)

The militaries of Western Europe were becoming too powerful.

d)

There was a division between the communist Eastern Europe and Western Europe. 

4.
The Cold War was a time of tension between the United States and the former Soviet Union. In 1962, the United States was involved in
the Cuban Missile Crisis. Which was the importance of this event?
a)

The United States wanted the former Soviet Union to provide aid to Cuba.

b)

The United States attacked Cuba.

c)

The United States wanted the former Soviet Union to remove missiles from Cuba.

d)

The United Stated placed missiles in Cuba.

5.

What was the name for the doctrine employed throughout the Cold War that ensured no nation would attack the other because of the threat of devastating nuclear retaliation if they did so?

(a)  

6.

What is the code name of the program created by American President Ronald Regan, supposedly to create a nuclear shield, but in reality to encourage the USSR to overspend on the military and collapse their economy?

(a)  

7.

What was the city that was partitioned into Eastern and Western occupation zones after WWII, and faced a blockade by the Soviet Union which prevented food and supplies from reaching the city?

(a)  

8.

Draw a representation of the Marshall Plan, specifically demonstrating its goals

9.
By applying the strategy of containment, the United States hoped to prevent the
a)
emergence of an economic crisis in Europe
b)
return of Nazi ideas to postwar Germany
c)
expansion of the Soviet Union's influence around the world
d)
spread of nationalism from China to the rest of Asia 
10.

The countries in RED represent which Cold War era organization?

a)

League of Nations

b)

Justice League

c)

USA

d)

Warsaw Pact

11.

What are Proxy Wars?

a)

Indirect conflicts between the 2 superpowers

b)

Wars between Communist China and Russia

c)

Wars between the US and Canada

d)

Wars that US citizens greatly supported the involvement of US troops

12.

What policy implemented in the Cold War said the U.S. would give military aid to a country that needed to resist communism?

a)

Marshall Plan

b)

Truman Doctrine

c)

Domino Theory

d)

Open Door Policy

13.

What theory caused the U.S. to enter the Vietnam War in order to stop the expansion of communism across Southeast Asia?

a)

Marshall Plan

b)

Domino Theory

c)

Open Door Policy

d)

Dollar Diplomacy

14.

Which of the following is most characteristic of the Cold War?

a)

The growth of nuclear arsenals in the United States and the Soviet Union

b)

The expansion of national borders by imperialistic European countries

c)

The implementation of isolationist foreign policies in Great Britain and China

d)

The rapid industrialization of many Southeast Asian countries

15.

U.S. intervention in Vietnam came as a result of the Cold War policy of

a)

détente

b)

appeasement

c)

containment

d)

brinkmanship

16.

Which choice best describes the Second Red Scare ?

a)

the use of military force to put down civil unrest in American cities

b)

the use of accusations, blacklisting, and investigations against suspected communists

c)

the effort to expand civil rights protections to more groups of Americans

d)

the use of unethical searches and unfounded proclamations of a planned communist revolution in America  by Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer

17.

What is the map associated with?

a)

The US and British response to the Berlin Wall

b)

The US and British response to the Berlin Blockade

c)

The Soviet Union building the Iron Curtain

d)

The division on Berlin

18.

“The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms. If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world—and we shall surely endanger the welfare of our own nation.” – President Harry Truman, speech to Congress, 1947

What policy does this represent?

a)

Limitation of Arms

b)

Collective Security

c)

Containment of Communism

d)

Mutually assured destruction

19.

The following cartoon best represents the American policy of...

a)

Expansionism

b)

Containment

c)

Deterrence

d)

Brinkmanship

20.

The ___-_______ Movement was the third alliance of the Cold War, composed of neutral states such as Yugoslavia and India that aimed to maintain neutrality in the conflict

(a)