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WorksheetsCold War Review
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 11mins
world's first artificial satellite
baby boom
Sputnik
Levittown
suburbs
Announcement by the President in 1947 that the US would assist countries under threat from communist or Soviet influence
NATO
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Military operation to provide food and supplies to a city blockaded by Soviet Union
NATO
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Look at the map (click to enlarge). What does the large red dashed circle represent?
A nice place to vacation
Range of Soviet missiles in Cuba
The U.S. quarantine zone
To defeat the Soviet (a) of Berlin, the United States supplied the city for over a year during an event known as (b) .
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
What led to the creation of first suburban housing developments?
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Brown v. Board of Education
G.I. Bill of Rights
John F. Kennedy
sent warships to bomb North Vietnam.
decreased the war equipment being sent to South Vietnam.
increased the number of military advisers in South Vietnam.
sent soldiers to fight in North Vietnam.
One reason the USA was involved in the Vietnam War was to
prevent the spread of communism in Indochina
reduce French influence in Vietnam
stop china from seizing Vietnam
support the government of North Vietnam
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
During the Cold War, the United States adopted the ___________________ in order to stop the spread of communism around the world.
Domino Theory
Expansionist Policy
Containment Policy
Marshall Plan
US troop reduction in Vietnam; transfer of combat operations from American to South Vietnamese troops
Domino Theory
Kent State University
Tet Offensive
Vietnamization
Protests over military missions resulted in confrontation between protestors and police, with four students killed on May 4, 1970
Kent State University
Vietnamization
Domino Theory
Viet Cong
amendment that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
26th Amendment
15th Amendment
