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WorksheetsU.S. B: Unit 1 Review
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 24mins
What is the term for the "tense relations" between nations following World War II?
The Iron Curtain
The Cold War
The Big Three
The Truman Doctrine
What is the name of the dividing line between democratic governments and Communist governments in Europe?
The Berlin Wall
The Marshall Plan
The Iron Curtain
The Political Divide
What is the name of the meeting with the "Big Three" following World War II?
The Yalta Conference
The Potsdam Conference
The Warsaw Pact
NATO
What was the major agreement of the Yalta Conference?
To allow Soviets to exert as much influence as desired in Europe
To ban Communism in the world
To allow countries to choose their form of government
To create an agreement of peace in the world
What organization was created post-WWII to facilitate "international peace-keeping"?
The CIA
NATO
The UN
The Warsaw Pact
Which resolution provided the countries of Greece and Turkey with direct economic/military aid from the United States?
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
The Long Telegram
The Berlin Airlift
What was the major idea of the Marshall Plan?
To allow the USSR to set up a government in Poland.
To protect Iran from Soviet influence.
Providing economic aid to devastated nations in Europe.
To provide supplies to West Berlin.
How did the Korean War officially begin?
North Korea invaded South Korea.
South Korea invaded North Korea.
The U.S.S.R. invaded South Korea.
China invaded North Korea.
Who was the leader of the People's Republic of China during the Korean War?
Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-Shek
Xi Jinping
Who was elected president to negotiate a cease-fire in the Korean War?
Harry Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight Eiesenhower
John F. Kennedy
Which American state department official was accused of being a communist and taken to trial?
Jake Spero
Alger Hiss
Mikhael Gorbachev
Jarret Hurd
President Truman had FBI screen federal employees to see if they had any communist ties. As a result 3,000 employees were either fired or resigned. What was this called
McCarran Act
Loyalty Review Board
John Birch Society
Palmer Raids
The couple that was executed for spying and allegedly passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union were the...
Hiss’s
Greenglass’s
Rosenberg’s
Chamber’s
What was the main goal of McCarthyism?
To remove potential communist from state positions
To witch hunt people McCarthyist did not like
To bring early attention to Ronald Reagan (Pre Political Career)
To divide the Republican Party
When Stalin died in 1953, this man became the leader of the Soviet Union.
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir Putin
Yuri Andropov
The first satellite launched into space in 1957 by the Soviet Union was called
Explorer I
Sputnik
U-2
Glasnost 1
The organization created by the US to build a space program was called
NATO
SEATO
NASA
Warsaw Pact
The spy plane shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960 was called
Sputnik
Explorer I
Voyager I
U-2
Massive Retaliation:
Promised a diplomatic intervention should Russia attack
Promised a full Russia invasion should Russia attack
Promised nuclear warfare should Russia attack
Promised surrender should Russia attack
Massive Retaliation
What did Kennedy's "flexible response" plan call for?
a buildup of nuclear weapons
a buildup of conventional weapons
a reduction of military bases
a reduction of the Special Forces
In 1961 the American CIA tried to support Cuban revolutionaries in a failed uprising against the communist USSR backed Cuba, this was known as...
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Revolution
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Cuba
After receiving the images from the CIA, President Kennedy ordered a
Full on invasion of Cuba
Naval Blockade around Cuba
A missile launch at Soviet Union
Which of the following BEST aligns with the ending of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
America bombs parts of satellite communist nations to scare USSR
USSR tries to launch the the missiles but they fail to launch ending the crisis
USSR and America back off and agree to not use Cuba as a weapons holder
What happened in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963?
President Kennedy was assassinated while driving through the streets
The Vietnam War started with America joining the war against the Vietcong
President Johnson was shot but survived the near assassination
During John F Kennedy's time as President the Soviet Union became allies with...
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Philippines
Mexico
When it came to the space race. What did Kennedy want the US to be the first to do?
Put a man in space
Put a woman into space
Put a man on the moon
Put a satellite into space
Term for the idea that stated that if one nation fell to communism, others would follow
Containment
The Domino Theory
Roll back Theory
McCarthyism
Why did Kennedy send The Peace Corps volunteer to serve in poor areas of the world.?
To spread Christianity
To gain access to underdeveloped countries resources
To fund the Green Berets
To make sure poor countries would be less likely to turn to Communism
Buzz Aldrin
