WorksheetsUnit 6- The Cold War
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
At the end of WWII, who was the Soviet Leader?
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Otto Von Bismark
After World War II, an international body of countries was created to ensure peace?
The League of Nations
The United Nations
The Allied Powers
The Triple Alliance
In 1948, the Soviets closed Allied access to West Berlin causing a lack of supplies and aid. To combat this act, how did the U.S. come to help the people of West Berlin?
Using airlifts to keep them supplied
Threatening nuclear war
Introducing the Marshall Plan
Tearing down the Berlin Wall
During the Eisenhower presidency, a policy was put to use as a threat to use nuclear weapons in response to any Communist threats became known as what policy?
Flexible Response
Preemptive Strike
Brinksmanship
The Iron Curtain
Fearing Western aggression, the Soviet Union linked itself with 7 other Eastern European countries under what agreement?
The Warsaw Pact
The Yalta Pact
The NATO Alliance
The Mutual Assistance Pact
Under which president was a doctrine established to contain, rather than eliminating, Communism?
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
The U.S. began secretly spying on Soviet operations using what high-altitude plane?
U-2
B-17
F-117
X-35
During the Kennedy administration, this was a failed attempt to drive Fidel Castro from power in Cuba?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Revolution
The Bay of Pigs
The Tide Pool of Marmosets
President Kennedy met with this Soviet leader in Vienna to discuss a nuclear disarament deal?
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Georgi Bolshakov
Harry Truman
To protect itself from Western enemies, the Soviet Union set up friendly satellite nations across Eastern Europe to create a communist bloc. This division between the Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic and Capitalist Western Europe was called what? The term was first used by Winston Churchill.
The Iron Curtain
The Red Stain
Who led a communist revolution in China in the late 1940s?
Chiang Kai-shek
Shi Huangdi
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Min
What agreement by Western nations pledges military support if one of its members is attacked?
The Warsaw Pact
The Yalta Pact
The NATO Alliance
The Marshall Plan
Truman refused to attack China during the Korean War because they had an alliance with what nation?
Soviet Union
Japan
Germany
Taiwan
After learning the Soviets had developed the atomic bomb, the U.S. began development on what even more terrifying weapon?
Napalm
The Cluster Bomb
Biological Weapons
The Hydrogen Bomb
What agency investigated Hollywood under suspicion of communist influences and also fueled the blacklisting of the Hollywood 10?
Loyalty Review Board
Central Intelligence Agency
Federal Bureau of Investigation
House Un-American Activity Committee
What provided $13 billion to Western European countries to help them rebuild after WWII?
The Warsaw Pact
The Yalta Pact
The Truman Plan
The Marshall Plan
Who did John F. Kennedy defeat during the 1960 presidential election?
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Herbert Hoover
Lyndon Johnson
The “Camelot Years” refers to a period of optimism and hope under what president?
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
What commander was forced to resign after trying to pressure President Truman to attack China during the Korean War?
Dwight Eisenhower
George Patton
Herbert Hoover
Douglas MacArthur
What U.S. senator established support and notoriety based on the false claims of the list of 205 communists within the U.S. government?
Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Joesph McCarthy
JFK
What was the 13 day nuclear standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba?
The Korean War
Red Scare
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Literal and Figurative wall built to separate West and East Berlin in 1961?
Iron Curtain
The Berlin Wall
The Red Scare
Bay of Pigs
The first Americans to be convicted of espionage and executed during the Cold War?
Joe McCarthy
Bobby and Ethel Kennedy
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Jackie and John Kennedy
