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WorksheetsUnit 8A: The Cold War
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 19mins
Arms race
endless race to acquire greater numbers of more and more powerful weapons
Red Scare
fear of communists, both outside and within the United States
Iron Curtain
The split between communist East Europe and Democratic West
Mutually Assured Destruction
having so many weapons that both sides would be totally destroyed in an all-out war
United Nations
Organization created after World War II to avoid future conflicts
Douglas MacArthur
general in command of U.S. forces in the Korean War
McCarthyism
term named after a Senator who was pt of the Red Scare by wrongfully accusing ppl of being Communis
Cold War
The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union
Fidel Castro
Communist dictator of Cuba
Nikita Khrushchev
Leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin
At the Yalta Conference Stalin agreed to allow
Free elections in occupied territories
All territories it controlled to return to Nazi control
The United States to teach democracy to the Soviets.
Great Britain to occupy all of its current territories
Small Country controlled by a more powerful neighbor
NATO
Iron Curtain
Satellite States
Blockade
Imaginary barrier separating Soviet-controlled countries and the free world
38th Parallel
Mississippi River
Berlin Wall
Iron Curtain
Restricting the expansion of Soviet communism was called
expansionism
containment
restriction
communism restraint
The Truman Doctrine shifted the United States from being (a) to (b) .
Between June 27, 1948 &. May 12, 1949 the Soviets put a ______ on Western Berlin.
Blockade
Blitzkrieg
Wall
Sanction
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
Island Hopping
The German Blockade
The Berlin Airlift
Bay of the Pigs
The goal of (a) was to stop soviet expansion while communist countries formed the (b)
Mao Zedong
Chinese Communist Leader
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Communist Leader
Harry S. Truman
President at the start of the Cold War
With whom did the Soviet Union form the Warsaw Pact?
East Asian Nations
North American Nations
Western European Nations
Eastern European Nations
The line separating North & South Korea is the (a) th Parallel
This was created to Collect classified information overseas and discover what other nations were doing behind the scenes.
CIA
FBI
NRA
EPA
(a) was created in response to (b)
Unlawful to teach about or advocate violent overthrow of the U.S. government
Johnson Act
Red Scare
Smith Act
Hiss Act
Congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States Including:
Agriculture Committee
Budget Committee
Select Committee on Terrorism
House Un-American Activities Committee
Group of writers, directors, and producers who refused to answer HUAC questions about possible communist ties.
Hollywood 8
Hollywood 10
Jackson 6
Alger Hiss &. the Rosenbergs
(a) (b) of Truman's plan to expand the War, which led to him being (c)
Competition with the Soviet Union caused a _________ American space missons.
increase
decrease
end to
drought in
Passed secrets about nuclear science to the Soviets and were sentenced to death.
Joseph Stalin
Alger Hiss
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Joseph McCarthy
The event that marked when the U.S. and the Soviet Union came to the closest to nuclear war?
Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Establishment of the Berlin Wall
