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WorksheetsCh 19 The Cold War
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
During the Cold War, what bill did the U.S. Congress pass to provide financial assistance to western European countries?
Truman Doctrine
Open Door Policy
Marshall Plan
Domino Theory
What policy implemented in the Cold War said the U.S. would give military aid to a country that needed to resist communism?
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Domino Theory
Open Door Policy
During the Cold War, what policy did the U.S. follow to stop the spread of communism?
Open Door Policy
Big Stick Policy
Containment Policy
Dollar Diplomacy
Which individual/group contributed to the Red Scare by accusing American citizens of being communist spies?
McCarthy/HUAC
NAACP/Farm Workers Union
Nativists/Muckrakers
Philanthropists/Entrepreneurs
What happened as a result of the launch of Sputnik in 1957?
It started the space race between the USSR and U.S.
The U.S. government started NASA.
U.S. began to spend more money on math and science to maintain national security.
All of the above
During what Cold War event did the U.S. bypass a Soviet blockade in Germany without provoking a military conflict?
Berlin Airlift
Vietnam War
Watergate Scandal
Bataan Death March
How did the Marshall Plan aim to contain the spread of communism?
It built up the western European armed forces.
It helped rebuild and strengthen European economies.
It forced Americans to take loyalty oaths to avoid losing their jobs.
It created a military alliance among western European and North American nations.
Which choice best describes the Second Red Scare ?
the use of military force to put down civil unrest in American cities
the use of accusations, blacklisting, and investigations against suspected communists
the effort to expand civil rights protections to more groups of Americans
the use of unethical searches and unfounded proclamations of a planned communist revolution in America by Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer
What is NATO?
A military alliance between Western European Countries, the U.S. and Canada.
A military alliance between Western European Countries, the Soviet Union and China.
A military alliance between Eastern European Countries, Including the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.
A military alliance between Eastern European Countries.
What is significant about the 38th parallel?
It divides Western and Eastern Europe, this line is also described as the Iron Curtain
The division between North and South Korea
The division between China and North Korea, also known as the Iron Curtain.
The 38th parallel was the location of all communist satellite nations.
Which statement best describes the primary focus of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s?
to prevent the admission of Red China to the United Nations
to prevent the integration of various racial groups in U.S. society
to investigate radical groups in order to find disloyal Americans
to place quotas on the number of immigrants entering the U.S.
The launch of Sputnik I intensified Cold War tensions and caused the —
United States to increase spending on technology, education and weapons to compete with the Soviet Union
Soviet Union to move missiles and warships to Cuba in order to threaten the United States
United States to send troops and aid to East Berlin to free it from Soviet control
Soviet Union to threaten Europe with nuclear attack if Soviet airspace were violated
Which statement best explains how the United States responded to the presence of the "Iron Curtain"?
The United States established a blockade of East Berlin.
The United States worked to stop the spread of communism.
The United States withdrew from its European alliances
The United States declared war on the Soviet Union.
What is the map associated with?
The US and British response to the Berlin Wall
The US and British response to the Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union building the Iron Curtain
The division on Berlin
According to the source and using your knowledge of US History, which of the following is most correct regarding the conflict in Korea?
Both sides at one point made strong advances into their opposition at certain points but fought the war to a stalemate.
Neither side was able to advance very much and the war was essentially a stalemate in the end.
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.
South Korea was able to make a strong push far into North Korea with the help of the Soviet Union.
These were the opposing superpowers during the Cold War years
China and the Soviet Union
Cuba and the Soviet Union
USA and the Soviet Union
Iran and the Soviet Union
Nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union were called--
European Nations
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Satellite Nations
The organization whose members agreed to mutually defend other Communist nations is called--
Korean Pact
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Satellite Nations
What event explains the rise in military spending in the graph?
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
Space Race
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.
Deterrence
Proxy War
Containment
Cold War
Hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
Anti-Democratic
Neo-Nazism
Anti-Semitism
Jewism
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."
Jewish Race Laws
The Berlin Laws
The Holocaust Laws
The Nuremberg Laws
In 1937 Jews'passports had to be labeled with what on the front cover?
The Star of David
An "X"with a circle in red.
A large "J"
A stamp that said "Juden" in gold letters.
"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.
Einsatzgruppen
Blitzkrieg
Kristallnacht
Reich-Stag
In places like Auschwitz Jews were killed in
gas chambers.
mobile killing vehicles.
drowning tanks.
small numbers by fire squad.
Holocaust
Another name for WWII
The murder of approximately six million Jews and millions of other groups targeted by the Nazis and their collaborators.
The internment of Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
genocide
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
the killing of 5 or more people in one event
The killing of 6 million Jews as well as other targeted groups during WWII
Which BEST explains why Israel became a nation-state in Palestine after 1948?
After the Ottoman empire was dismantled after World War I a new Jewish nation-state was created.
The United Nations decided that Jewish people needed a homeland after six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.
Palestine was divided into two nation-states to be occupied by the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II.
Fears that Palestine was becoming a communist state led the United States into creating Israel as a democratic country in the Middle East.
