WorksheetsCold War
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 23mins
What happened as a result of the launch of Sputnik in 1957?
It started the space race.
U.S. began to invest more money into math & science education.
The U.S. started NASA.
All of the above
How did the G.I. Bill contribute to the economic prosperity of the 1950s?
It decreased consumer spending.
It allowed Veterans to get an education and buy homes in suburbs.
It offered incentives under the Bracero Program to temporary laborers.
It created federal domestic programs as part of the Great Society.
After WWII what happened to the population of the U.S?
The population moved westward as a result of the railroad.
African Americans moved north as part of the Great Migration.
The population shifted from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt.
The population grew due to the Baby Boom.
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.
After WWII, U.S helped rebuild Western Europe's infrastructure, and stabilize their economies and governments through-
The Truman Doctrine
The Molotov Plan
The Marshall Plan
The Containment Plan
Communist North Korea invades democratic South Korea, therefore pressuring who to help?
U.S
France
Germany
Japan
What was the result of the Berlin blockade?
Military conflict escalated between the U.S & USSR
Germany fell to communism
The Cold War ended
The U.S airlifted supplies to West Berlin and avoided war with the Soviet Union
A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons during the Cold War.
Space Race
Vietnamization
Arms Race
Domino Theory
The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason, especially when related to communism, without any proper regard for evidence.
McCarthyism
Blitzkrieg
Hollywood 10
HUAC Act
A U.S policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
Marshall Plan
Molotov Plan
McCarthyism
Containment Policy
Policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism, mainly to help Greece and Turkey.
Truman Doctrine
Marshal Plan
Eisenhower Doctrine
Domino Theory
What did Jonas Salk create that eradicated polio in America?
Mandatory quarantining
Cure for polio
Polio Vaccine
New ways to package food to stop the spread
The housing boom, new industries, and military spending all led to what in the 1950s?
Economic prosperity
Economic decline
Weaker military
More land for growth
1. What were the defining characteristics of the Cold War?
Communism, containment, arms race, Red Scare, Space Race
Economic instability, Unemployment, Breadlines, Poverty
Pearl Harbor, Navajo Code Talkers, Women working in factories, Atomic bombs, internment camps, concentration camps
Temperance Movement, Women’s Suffrage Movement, and outlawing child labor
Phrase coined by Churchill that explained that Europe had been divided into western Europe and communist eastern Europe
Containment
Iron Curtain
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
A military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations and a response by Stalin to the US creation of NATO
United Nations
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Airlift
An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
United Nations
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Airlift
(These countries fought with ideas, words, and money)
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.
Which of the following terms refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union that began at the end of WWII and lasted until 1991?
Iron Curtain
Soviet-Communist War
Korean War
Cold War
What were the defining characteristics of the Cold War?
Prohibition, Flappers, Jazz
Arms Race, Space Race, Red Scare
Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Pearl Harbor
Poverty, Unemployment, Dust Bowl
What innovation limited the spread of infectious diseases like polio?
Vaccines
Internet
Radar
X-rays
Who were the emerging superpowers following World War II?
Soviet Union & USA
Italy & Germany
Cuba & Vietnam
Great Britain & China
How did the world get divided after WWII?
Communist & Anti-Communist
Pro/Anti-Technology
Axis & Allies
During what event did the U.S. bypass a Soviet blockade without provoking a military conflict?
Berlin Airlift
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Vietnam War
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 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
Movie producers, directors, & screenwriters accused of possible communists affiliations
Hollywood Trio
Hollywood 10
Cinema reds
Reds United
Gives soldier's money for college or training programs when they return to civilian life.
Containment Policy
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
G.I. Bill
Average family income, employment, and consumer spending all increased during which decade in the U.S.
1900's
1950's
1910's
1870's
Joseph McCarthy accused people of being what?
Communists
Democratic
Christians
Corrupt
