Cold War Review

Question 1

Name the two superpowers during the cold war

Answer 1

USSR (soviets) vs USA

Question 2

This international organization was the idea of President Roosevelt, its primary goal was to prevent future wars and promote peace

Answer 2

United Nations

Question 3

The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance between the Soviet Union and its allies, this was in response to a military alliance that included the USA, Canada, and much of Western Europe, what was this military alliance called?

Answer 3

NATO

Question 4

After WWII, American birth rates increased significantly, what is this time period referred to as?

Answer 4

Baby Boom

Question 5

In what form of government do citizens choose their leaders?

Answer 5

democracy

Question 6

The Berlin Airlift was a US response to the Soviets blockading our access to this city

Answer 6

West Berlin

Question 7

The Soviets launched the first satellite into space, what was the satellite called?

Answer 7

Sputnik

Question 8

The US successfully test the first thermonuclear weapon in 1952, it was referred to as what type of bomb

Answer 8

hydrogen bomb

Question 9

During the cold war, the CIA, the US Central Intelligence Agency, engaged in covert (secret) operations to overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala and the Prime minister of what country?

Answer 9

Iran

Question 10

It was the closest the US and the USSR ever came to nuclear war, it was resolved when the USSR agreed to remove its missiles from and the us promised never to invade what country?

Answer 10

Cuba

Question 11

President Truman wanted to limit the Korean War to the Korean Peninsula and not introduce nuclear weapons, Gen. MacArthur wanted to expand the war beyond Korea and use nukes, what happened to MacArthur?

Answer 11

He was fired from his position

Question 12

What is the term, used by Winston Churchill, to describe the imaginary diving line between western democratic Europe and eastern communist Europe?

Answer 12

Iron Curtain

Question 13

The Truman Administration sent billions of dollars in aid to help rebuild a devastated Europe after WWII, what was this plan called?

Answer 13

Marshall Plan

Question 14

This man became the “king od Rock n’ Roll” in the 1950’s

Answer 14

Elvis Presley

Question 15

Who was the communist leader who won the Chinese Civil War in 1949?

Answer 15

Mao Zedong

Question 16

Who was the first man in space (he was a Soviet)

Answer 16

Yuri Gargarin

Question 17

They were allies during WWII but at the Potsdam Conference (near Berlin) after the surrender of Germany, we see growing tensions between the US, Great Britain, and this communist nation

Answer 17

The Soviet Union

Question 18

Increased tensions between the USSR and the US when US pilot Gary Powers is shot down over the USSR, what type of spy plane was he flying?

Answer 18

U-2 spy plane

Question 19

Eastern European nations under the control and domination of the Soviet Union were called what?

Answer 19

Satellite Nations

Question 20

What US President declared that the US would go to the moon in “this decade”, 1960s?

Answer 20

Kennedy

Question 21

What was the term used to describe, white middle-class Americans moving to the suburbs?

Answer 21

White Flight

Question 22

The Eisenhower Doctrine declared that the US would defend this region of the world from Communism

Answer 22

Middle East

Question 23

Eisenhower’s strategy of threatening the use of nuclear weapons to keep the peace and force the other side to back down, what was this called?

Answer 23

Brinkmanship

Question 24

US policy of preventing the spread of communism in Europe and around the world?

Answer 24

Containment

Question 25

The Truman Doctrine was we would help any country resist what?

Answer 25

Communism

Question 26

What happened during the Arms Race?

Answer 26

US vs USSR
atomic bomb ‘45 atomic bomb ‘49
hydrogen ‘52 hydrogen ‘53

Question 27

Legislatures tried to revive rundown urban areas

Answer 27

Urban Renewal

Question 28

Fear of communism reaching the US and other nations

Answer 28

Red scare

Question 29

Worked in state department, was accused of being a communist spy and was convicted of perjury

Answer 29

Alger Hiss

Question 30

Executed for conspiring to pass nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union

Answer 30

The Rosenbergs

Question 31

Actors, writers, and directors who refused to cooperate with the HUAC

Answer 31

Hollywood ten

Question 32

Hollywood blacklist

Answer 32

Were denied work because of having affiliations with communists

Question 33

Accusations without evidence/
Had a list of 205 names of communists

Answer 33

MacCarthy and MacCarthyism