WorksheetsThe End of the World War II and The Cold War Review
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 14mins
What did Americans fear after the end of WWII?
The spread of democracy
The spread of NATO
The spread of communism
The spread of capitalism
Why did the United States send troops to Vietnam?
To stop the spread of NATO
To stop the spread of communism
To stop the spread of capitalism
To stop the spread of democracy
The Cold War was a war between the United States and the Soviet Union, but there was not actual combat involved. The war between these two countries was a rivalry between which of the following?
capitalism vs. facism
communism vs. dictatorship
socialism vs. communism
communism vs. democracy
Which of the following events brought the world close to a nuclear war in the 1960s?
Space Race
Dropping of the atomic bomb
Cuban Missile Crisis
Construction of the Berlin Wall
In a speech regarding the divide in Europe over communism, Winston Churchill stated that a(n) ___________ descended over the continent.
steel wall
iron wall
steel curtain
iron curtain
The nation created after World War II as a homeland for displaced Jews was
Palestine
the Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Israel
The organization that the Soviet Union created in response to the defense alliance created by the United States consisting of communist allies to the USSR was
NATO
the United Nations
the satellite nations
the Warsaw Pact
When Germany was divided between the Allied Powers and the Soviet Union after World War II, Germany's capital city of _______________ was also divided.
Prussia
Berlin
Austria
Bismark
In 1948, the Soviets blocked ALL supplies from getting into West Berlin. How did the U.S. and the other Allies manage to still get supplies into West Berlin?
train
boat
plane
bicycles
U.S. and Allied airplanes delivered supplies into West Berlin for 321 days! This was known as the _____________ ________________.
Iron Airlift
Great Planes
Operation Airplane
Berlin Airlift
What was the Berlin Wall?
An imaginary wall between East and West Berlin
An imaginary wall between North and South Berlin
A concrete wall that separated East and West Berlin
A concrete wall that separated North and South Berlin
Who was the first man to walk on the moon's surface on July 20, 1969?
John Glenn
Alan Shepard
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
In 1958, President Eisenhower created ________, a federal agency dedicated to space exploration.
IAU
FBI
NASA
CIA
What happened in 1969 ending the Space Race?
The US sent is own satellites into Space
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth
The US sent the first robotic rover to Mars
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on The Moon
Following the war, Germany was
Divided into occupied zones, the east to the Soviets and the west to the democracies.
restored to the Kaiser under the supervision of the U.S.S.R.
ceded to the Republic of Poland.
Allowed to keep Berlin autonomous without allied supervision.
Leading North Vietnamese figure, supporting the Communist party
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Viet Cong
Kent State University
What parallel line divides North and South Korea?
17th
48th
15th
38th
What event started the Space Race?
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1
The United States created NASA
The creation of the Apollo space program
The 1st female astronaut is sent to space
