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Unit 8A: The Cold War

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Match the following

a)

Arms race

1.

endless race to acquire greater numbers of more and more powerful weapons

b)

Red Scare

2.

fear of communists, both outside and within the United States

c)

Iron Curtain

3.

The split between communist East Europe and Democratic West

d)

Mutually Assured Destruction

4.

having so many weapons that both sides would be totally destroyed in an all-out war

e)

United Nations

5.

Organization created after World War II to avoid future conflicts

2.

Match the following

a)

Douglas MacArthur

1.

general in command of U.S. forces in the Korean War

b)

McCarthyism

2.

term named after a Senator who was pt of the Red Scare by wrongfully accusing ppl of being Communis

c)

Cold War

3.

The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union

d)

Fidel Castro

4.

Communist dictator of Cuba

e)

Nikita Khrushchev

5.

Leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin

3.

At the Yalta Conference Stalin agreed to allow

a)

Free elections in occupied territories

b)

All territories it controlled to return to Nazi control

c)

The United States to teach democracy to the Soviets.

d)

Great Britain to occupy all of its current territories

4.

Small Country controlled by a more powerful neighbor

a)

NATO

b)

Iron Curtain

c)

Satellite States

d)

Blockade

5.

Imaginary barrier separating Soviet-controlled countries and the free world

a)

38th Parallel

b)

Mississippi River

c)

Berlin Wall

d)

Iron Curtain

6.

Restricting the expansion of Soviet communism was called

a)

expansionism

b)

containment

c)

restriction

d)

communism restraint

7.

The Truman Doctrine shifted the United States from being ​ (a)   to ​ (b)   .

Choose from the below words
Isolationist
Interventionist
8.

Between June 27, 1948 &. May 12, 1949 the Soviets put a ______ on Western Berlin.

a)

Blockade

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Wall

d)

Sanction

9.

To counter the Berlin Blockade the United States and British delivered more than 2.3 million tons of food, fuel and supples to Western Berlin. This is known as

a)

Island Hopping

b)

The German Blockade

c)

The Berlin Airlift

d)

Bay of the Pigs

10.

​ The goal of (a)   was to stop soviet expansion while communist countries formed the ​ (b)  

Choose from the below words
NATO
Warsaw Pact.
11.

Match the following

a)

Mao Zedong

1.

Chinese Communist Leader

b)

Nikita Khrushchev

2.

Soviet Communist Leader

c)

Harry S. Truman

3.

President at the start of the Cold War

12.

With whom did the Soviet Union form the Warsaw Pact?

a)

East Asian Nations

b)

North American Nations

c)

Western European Nations

d)

Eastern European Nations

13.

The line separating North & South Korea is the (a)   th Parallel

14.

This was created to Collect classified information overseas and discover what other nations were doing behind the scenes.

a)

CIA

b)

FBI

c)

NRA

d)

EPA

15.

​ (a)   was created in response to ​ (b)  

Choose from the below words
NASA
SPUTNIK
CIA
MAD
Smith Act
Peace Corps
16.

Unlawful to teach about or advocate violent overthrow of the U.S. government

a)

Johnson Act

b)

Red Scare

c)

Smith Act

d)

Hiss Act

17.

Congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States Including:

a)

Agriculture Committee

b)

Budget Committee

c)

Select Committee on Terrorism

d)

House Un-American Activities Committee

18.

Group of writers, directors, and producers who refused to answer HUAC questions about possible communist ties.

a)

Hollywood 8

b)

Hollywood 10

c)

Jackson 6

d)

Alger Hiss &. the Rosenbergs

19.

​ (a)   ​ ​ (b)   of ​ ​Truman's plan to expand the War, which led to him being ​ (c)  

Choose from the below words
MacArthur
disapproved
fired
Approved
approved
Marshall
promoted
20.

Competition with the Soviet Union caused a _________ American space missons.

a)

increase

b)

decrease

c)

end to

d)

drought in

21.

Passed secrets about nuclear science to the Soviets and were sentenced to death.

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Alger Hiss

c)

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

d)

Joseph McCarthy

22.

The event that marked when the U.S. and the Soviet Union came to the closest to nuclear war?

a)

Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

b)

Cuban Missile Crisis

c)

Bay of Pigs

d)

Establishment of the Berlin Wall