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Which of the following was a primary cause of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union?
direct, armed conflict between the two nations
the founding of the United Nations
a deep reduction in military expenditures
a competition for political influence over other countries
The Cold War refers to the period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union from
the end of World War II to the fall of the Soviet Union.
the end of World War I to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
the Cuban Missile Crisis to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
the Bolshevik Revolution to the end of World War I.
Which of the following is most characteristic of the Cold War?
The growth of nuclear arsenals in the United States and the Soviet Union
The expansion of national borders by imperialistic European countries
The implementation of isolationist foreign policies in Great Britain and China
The rapid industrialization of many Southeast Asian countries
The United States followed a policy of containment during the Cold War in response to the spread of communism.
How did the Marshall Plan reflect containment policy?
It blocked Soviet missiles from from arriving in communist Cuba.
It provided economic aid to European countries in order to prevent the spread of communism.
It authorized the use of military force against communist forces in Vietnam.
It stopped communist efforts to control the Korean Peninsula.
When the United States sent military aid to African governments to help them resist communism, it was continuing a foreign policy first asserted in the
Potsdam Agreement.
Teheran Conference.
Marshall Plan.
Truman Doctrine.
What was one major goal of the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War?
to expand individual liberties in the Baltic republics
to attract foreign economic investments
to create a defensive buffer zone in Eastern Europe
to establish a competitive market economy
Which of these was a cause of the Korean War?
NATO air and naval forces blocked ships sailing to North Korea.
United Nations inattention allowed guerrillas to infiltrate South Korea.
North Korean forces, with Soviet approval, invaded South Korea.
Widespread anti-colonial riots forced the Korean government to begin the war.
During the Korean War, what prevented the southern part of the peninsula from falling permanently to the invading forces?
The threat of a Soviet naval blockade
The assistance of the Chinese military
The use of atomic weapons on northern cities
The involvement of UN forces under the command of the United States
During the Cold War, in which country would the city of West Berlin be inside of?
East Germany
West Germany
Soviet Union
France
Which country, in 1948, controlled the ZONE that the entire city of Berlin was located in.
Soviet Union
Great Britain
France
United States
What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift, between the years 1948 and 1949?
To bring necessary supplies to assist the Communists after World War II.
It was designed to help citizens in France to resist Communism.
Moving Allied soldiers to help fight the Nazis during World War II.
To supply the citizens of West Berlin while the Soviet blockade continued.
The United States Foreign Policy after World War II was the policy of Containment, which was?
The U.S. would try to restrict the spread of Fascism in Europe.
The U.S. would help to rebuild the nations of Japan and Germany.
Due to the importance, the U.S. would increase spending into the Space Race.
The U.S. would try to prevent the spread of Communism anywhere in the world.
Which of these events was the closest the United States and the Soviet Union actually came to fighting each other during the Cold War?
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Gulf of Tonkin, 1964
Bay of Pigs, 1961
Suez Crisis, 1956
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
Why did the United States not share the plan to develop the atomic bomb with the Soviet Union during World War II?
The Soviet Union already had an atomic bomb.
The United States did not trust the Soviet Union.
The Allies would have been against its development on moral grounds.
Scientists were unsure if they would be successful.
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.
Based on your knowledge of the cartoon, which of the following items most accurately describes the source
It is depicting the Cuban Missile Crisis
It is depicting the Berlin Crisis
It is depicting the Bay of Pigs
It is depicting the Berlin Blockade
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.
Which reason explains why President Truman issued the Truman Doctrine?
The Soviet Union interfered in the domestic affairs of Greece and Turkey.
The Soviet Union refused to allow Greece and Turkey to join the United Nations.
The Soviet Union provided economic assistance to Greece and Turkey.
The Soviet Union prevented Greece and Turkey from accepting the Marshall Plan.
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
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 the Cuban Missile Crisis, what did President J.F. Kennedy do when he heard that the Soviet Union was constructing nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
He launched a nuclear missile at the Kremlin in Moscow.
He gave into the demands of the Soviet & Cuban government.
He ordered a naval blockade around Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from bringing the necessary materials.
He declared war on the Soviet Union & Cuba.
What theory caused the U.S. to enter the Vietnam War in order to stop the expansion of communism across Southeast Asia?
Marshall Plan
Domino Theory
Open Door Policy
Dollar Diplomacy
What is brinkmanship?
U.S. foreign policy of threatening to use all out military aggression against enemy
The purchasing of material goods
Designing of products to wear out or become outdated so consumers need to buy more
U.S. foreign policy of blocking spread of communism to other nations by the Soviets
In 1956, the Soviets launched _____________, the world’s first satellite into space, starting a period during the Cold War referred to as the Space Race.
U-2 Spy Plane
Sputnik
John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
What was the high-altitude aircraft that would do spy missions for America by taking pictures from high altitude?
Saturn V Rocket
Space Shuttle
U-2 Spy Plane
Big Bird
The two international organizations which involved espionage against each other overseas in the Cold War were...
KFC and MCDs
HUAC and KGB
HUAC and FBI
KGB and CIA
The belief that the Soviet Union had more Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles than the US was called the...
Missile Fear
Red Scare
Missile Gap
Red Missile Advantage
What ways did the GI Bill help returning soldiers from WWII?
It gave them access to low interest mortgages.
It gave them access to tuition stipends to help pay for college.
It gave them access to jobs in defense industries.
It gave them access to a soldiers "minimum wage".
In general, the 1950s economy -
boomed.
struggled.
only benefited the northern part of the country.
only benefited the western states.
What term goes with the information on the graph?
the "baby boom"
the post-industrial birthrate
the bell curve
the post-war paradox
The demographic changes that resulted in the development
of housing projects like the one in the image
could be described as:
suburbanization
westward migration
the Great Migration
immigration
The conformity that suburbs represented was:
challenged by the beat generation.
found only in the Sun Belt.
opposed by liberal and left- leaning politicians.
generally good for the environment.
What consumer good dominated the culture of the 1950s?
the TV
the radio
the compact disc
the personal computer
The first large scale suburb of affordable housing was built in New York. It was called
Hollywood
Anaheim
Levittown
Morristown
Which of these ideas would NOT be included in the stereotype of the 1950's home?
man is seen as the breadwinner
woman is the homemaker
children are sent to private schools
the family has a home with 2 kids & a car
The National Defense Education Act
helped start NASA
led to the moon landings
increased math & science education in schools
created new math & science textbooks
The main style of music in the 1950's was
jazz
hip-hop
country
rock n roll
All of these related to television in the 1950's EXCEPT
eating TV dinners as you watched
starting to select channels from cable networks
checking TV Guide for the schedule of programming
watching shows like Howdy Doody & Ed Sullivan
Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the 1950's?
hearing poetry from the Beatniks
going on vacation in a car
eating fast food like McDonalds
beach activities every summer for most Americans
Stalin prevents aid from reaching west Berlin. America and British will drop thousands of supplies from planes.
Berlin Airlift
Nato
Warsaw Pact
Truman Doctrine
A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union on who can supple their arsenal with more weapons?
Arms Race
Domino Theory
Massive Retaliation
Cold War
What helped fuel McCarthyism?
President Truman making atomic bombs.
Bombing China.
Japanese spies.
Increased fear of communism.
Senator McCarthy's lost popular support when he accused ...?
the House of Representatives
the US Army
the poor
women and children
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” - President John F. Kennedy, speech at Rice University, September 12, 1962
The main purpose of the above speech was to win public support for –
Establishing a missile defense system on the moon
Cooperating with Communist countries in exploring space
Surpassing the Soviet Union in the space race
