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Ch 19 The Cold War

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

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Class
Date
1.

During the Cold War, what bill did the U.S. Congress pass to provide financial assistance to western European countries?

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

Open Door Policy

c)

Marshall Plan

d)

Domino Theory

2.

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

3.

During the Cold War, what policy did the U.S. follow to stop the spread of communism?

a)

Open Door Policy

b)

Big Stick Policy

c)

Containment Policy

d)

Dollar Diplomacy

4.

Which individual/group contributed to the Red Scare by accusing American citizens of being communist spies?

a)

McCarthy/HUAC

b)

NAACP/Farm Workers Union

c)

Nativists/Muckrakers

d)

Philanthropists/Entrepreneurs

5.

What happened as a result of the launch of Sputnik in 1957?

a)

It started the space race between the USSR and U.S.

b)

The U.S. government started NASA.

c)

U.S. began to spend more money on math and science to maintain national security.

d)

All of the above

6.

During what Cold War event did the U.S. bypass a Soviet blockade in Germany without provoking a military conflict?

a)

Berlin Airlift

b)

Vietnam War

c)

Watergate Scandal

d)

Bataan Death March

7.

How did the Marshall Plan aim to contain the spread of communism?

a)

It built up the western European armed forces.

b)

It helped rebuild and strengthen European economies.

c)

It forced Americans to take loyalty oaths to avoid losing their jobs.

d)

It created a military alliance among western European and North American nations.

8.

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

9.

What is NATO?

a)

A military alliance between Western European Countries, the U.S. and Canada.

b)

A military alliance between Western European Countries, the Soviet Union and China.

c)

A military alliance between Eastern European Countries, Including the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.

d)

A military alliance between Eastern European Countries.

10.

What is significant about the 38th parallel?

a)

It divides Western and Eastern Europe, this line is also described as the Iron Curtain

b)

The division between North and South Korea

c)

The division between China and North Korea, also known as the Iron Curtain.

d)

The 38th parallel was the location of all communist satellite nations.

11.

Which statement best describes the primary focus of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s?

a)

to prevent the admission of Red China to the United Nations

b)

to prevent the integration of various racial groups in U.S. society

c)

to investigate radical groups in order  to find disloyal Americans

d)

to place quotas on the number of immigrants entering the U.S. 

12.

The launch of Sputnik I intensified Cold War tensions and caused the —

a)

United States to increase spending on technology, education and weapons to compete with the Soviet Union

b)

Soviet Union to move missiles and warships to Cuba in order to threaten the United States

c)

United States to send troops and aid to East Berlin to free it from Soviet control

d)

Soviet Union to threaten Europe with nuclear attack if Soviet airspace were violated

13.

Which statement best explains how the United States responded to the presence of the "Iron Curtain"?

a)

The United States established a blockade of East Berlin.

b)

The United States worked to stop the spread of communism.

c)

The United States withdrew from its European alliances

d)

The United States declared war on the Soviet Union.

14.

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

15.

According to the source and using your knowledge of US History, which of the following is most correct regarding the conflict in Korea?

a)

Both sides at one point made strong advances into their opposition at certain points but fought the war to a stalemate.

b)

Neither side was able to advance very much and the war was essentially a stalemate in the end.

c)

North Korea was able to make a strong push far into South Korea early into the war and nearly captured the southern city of Pusan . South Korea with the help of China was able to push them back.

d)

South Korea was able to make a strong push far into North Korea with the help of the Soviet Union.

16.

These were the opposing superpowers during the Cold War years

a)

China and the Soviet Union

b)

Cuba and the Soviet Union

c)

USA and the Soviet Union

d)

Iran and the Soviet Union

17.

Nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union were called--

a)

European Nations

b)

NATO

c)

Warsaw Pact

d)

Satellite Nations

18.

The organization whose members agreed to mutually defend other Communist nations is called--

a)

Korean Pact

b)

Warsaw Pact

c)

NATO

d)

Satellite Nations

19.
an alliance of nations that attempts to end disputes between countries peacefully
a)
United Nations
b)
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
c)
Yalta Conference
d)
Nuremburg Trials
20.
also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China
a)
Mao Zedong
b)
Joseph McCarthy
c)
38th Parallel
d)
Hydrogen Bomb
21.
the Cold War foreign policy designed to “get to the verge without getting into the war”
a)
Baby Boom
b)
Brinkmanship
c)
Arms Race
d)
Urban Renewal
22.
the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957
a)
Truman Doctrine
b)
Sputnik
c)
38th Parallel
d)
Hydrogen Bomb
23.
a growth in weapons based on the number of weapons an enemy country has
a)
Baby Boom
b)
Brinkmanship
c)
Arms Race
d)
Urban Renewal
24.
Senator who lent his name to the term McCarthyism. He dominated the U.S. political climate in the early 1950s through his sensational but unproven charges of communist subversion in high government circles. 
a)
Mao Zedong
b)
Joseph McCarthy
c)
Truman Doctrine
d)
United Nations
25.
What is Capitalism?
a)
A system where the government controls business
b)
Capitalism is an economic system where the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit! 
c)
A economic system in which the people have limited rights
d)
An economic system in which most property and resources, such as factories or farms, are publicly owned or controlled.
26.
An economic system in which the means of production is owned by the government and private ownership doesn't exist.
a)
Capitalism
b)
Imperialism 
c)
Socialism
d)
Communism 
27.
What was the Red Scare?
a)
fear of the spread of wealth
b)
fear of the spread of Communism
c)
fear of the spread of Capitalism 
d)
fear of job competition
28.

What event explains the rise in military spending in the graph?

a)

World War II

b)

Korean War

c)

Vietnam War

d)

Space Race

29.

During the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet policies of holding huge arsenals of nuclear weapons to prevent war; each nation believed that neither would launch a nuclear attack since both knew that the other side could strike back with devastating power.

a)

Deterrence

b)

Proxy War

c)

Containment

d)

Cold War

30.

Hostility to or prejudice against Jews.

a)

Anti-Democratic

b)

Neo-Nazism

c)

Anti-Semitism

d)

Jewism

31.

These laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or German-related blood."

a)

Jewish Race Laws

b)

The Berlin Laws

c)

The Holocaust Laws

d)

The Nuremberg Laws

32.

In 1937 Jews'passports had to be labeled with what on the front cover?

a)

The Star of David

b)

An "X"with a circle in red.

c)

A large "J"

d)

A stamp that said "Juden" in gold letters.

33.

"The Night of the Broken Glass", The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938.

a)

Einsatzgruppen

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Kristallnacht

d)

Reich-Stag

34.

In places like Auschwitz Jews were killed in

a)

gas chambers.

b)

mobile killing vehicles.

c)

drowning tanks.

d)

small numbers by fire squad.

35.

Holocaust

a)

Another name for WWII

b)

The murder of approximately six million Jews and millions of other groups targeted by the Nazis and their collaborators.

c)

The internment of Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

36.

genocide

a)

acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, including killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

b)

the killing of 5 or more people in one event

c)

The killing of 6 million Jews as well as other targeted groups during WWII

37.
What race did the Nazi's proclaim as the "master race"?
a)
Americans
b)
Japanese
c)
Aryan
d)
Japanese
38.
What did Jewish people in Nazi controlled areas have to wear to identify them as Jews?
a)
a yellow star of David
b)
a sign that said Jew
c)
Black clothes
d)
A yellow cross
39.
Which of the following best describes the “final solution?” 
a)
The implementation of the Balfour Declaration.
b)
The Nazi desire for complete destruction of the Jews.
c)
The conscription of German males into the military.
d)
The Jewish desire for a homeland within Germany.
40.

Which BEST explains why Israel became a nation-state in Palestine after 1948?

a)

After the Ottoman empire was dismantled after World War I a new Jewish nation-state was created.

b)

The United Nations decided that Jewish people needed a homeland after six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

c)

Palestine was divided into two nation-states to be occupied by the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II.

d)

Fears that Palestine was becoming a communist state led the United States into creating Israel as a democratic country in the Middle East.