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Origins of the Cold War

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What policy was enacted to keep communism within its own borders and not to spread to neighboring countries?

a)

Captivity

b)

Containment

c)

Communism

d)

Consumerism

2.

What idea was established to rebuild nations and help with their economic stability?

a)

The Yalta Conference

b)

The United Nations

c)

The Marshall Plan

d)

The Truman Doctrine

3.

What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials?

a)

To punish the Japanese for Nanjing.

b)

To grant Jewish citizens money for war crimes.

c)

To help first year law students get a taste of a criminal trial.

d)

Showed that political and military leaders would be held responsible for wartime crimes.

4.

Who were the three countries involved in the Yalta Conference?

a)

Germany, Italy, Japan

b)

China, Russia, France

c)

Great Brittian, Russia, United States

d)

United States, Russia, France

5.

What organization was created to ensure peace?

a)

The United Nations

b)

The League of Nations

c)

NAFTA

d)

NATO

6.

What idea provided money to countries trying to avoid communism expansion?

a)

The MacArthur Decision

b)

The Potsdam Conference

c)

The Truman Doctrine

d)

The Iron Curtain

7.

Which city had a wall in the middle of it and were both part of two different countries?

(a)  

8.

Who lead the Cuban revolution?

a)

Fulgencio Batista

b)

Nikita Khrushchev

c)

Fidel Castro

d)

Che Guevara

9.

What General got fired and replaced in the Korean War?

a)

Nimitz

b)

Eisenhower

c)

MacArthur

d)

Bradley

10.

Which incident was a huge disaster for the United States, but a huge victory for Cuba?

a)

NATO

b)

The Cuban Missal Crisis

c)

The Bay of Pigs

d)

The Potsdam Conference

11.

Who won the Korean War

a)

The United States

b)

South Korea

c)

North Korea

d)

Nobody

12.

What was set up as a response to West Berlin joining NATO?

a)

NAFTA

b)

The Warsaw Pact

c)

The Yalta Conference

d)

The Berlin Agreement

13.

What country aided North Korea when MacArthur pushed soldiers passed the Yalu River?

a)

China

b)

South Korea

c)

The Soviet Union

d)

Vietnam

14.

The 1950's can be characterized as a time of

a)

Economic Prosperity

b)

Slow job growth

c)

Cultural Rebirth

d)

Population Stagnation

15.

One of the purposes of the GI bill was to

a)

Ease fears about the threat of Soviet expansion

b)

Prosecute those suspected of having communist sympathies.

c)

Pay veterans large cash bonuses when they returned home.

d)

Provide educational opportunities to returning veterans