WorksheetsEarly Cold War Review Game
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 6mins
Soviet Leader during and after WWII
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Kruschev
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
The Marshall Plan...
provided economic aid to European democracies after WWII
provided military aid to Greece and Turkey
sought to build up the US nuclear arsenals
sought to increase US military presence in Asia
Who gave the "Iron Curtain" speech?
Joseph Stalin
President Truman
President Eisenhower
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
The US conducted operations known as the Berlin airlift in order to...
evacuate East Germans from occupied territory
provide supplies to West Berlin as a result of a blockade
drop propaganda flyers over East Berlin, encouraging people to leave the Soviet zone
conduct aerial surveillance of Soviet occupied zones
Reorder the following organizations from the first created to last
League of Nations
United Nations
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Which US President embraced the policies of "brinkmanship" and "Massive Retaliation" capabilities during the Cold War?
Truman
Kennedy
Nixon
Eisenhower
During his campaign, Eisenhower promised an end the the Korean War. The nation was permanently divided along the _____ parallel.
45th
17th
38th
22nd
At the Geneva Summit in 1955- Eisenhower suggested the program "Atoms of Peace" in order to
distribute more nuclear bombs to smaller nations to defend themselves
offer to help nations develop nuclear power and technology
establish nuclear agreements to reduce the stock piling of weapons
issue the threat that the use of an atomic bomb would result Mutually Assured Destruction in retaliation
U-2...not just a band but also a US.....
spy plane
nuclear testing site
nuclear submarine
nuclear warhead
The largest US nuclear bomb test was conducted at the Bikini Atoll islands in 1954. This nuclear bomb used both fission and fusion to create a thermonuclear weapon known as a ____ bomb.
Atomic
Helium
Hydrogen
Oxygen
After Stalin's death in 1953, this Soviet leader both promised peaceful coexistence with the US while threatening to "bury capitalism"
Brezhnev
Gorbachev
Andropov
Khrushchev
"Sputnik" is an example of the
arms race
detente
space race
MAD
Why did East Germany build the Berlin Wall?
To keep people from East Germany from coming into West Germany
To keep people from West Germany from coming into East Germany
To keep enemies out of the country
All of the above
