Origins of the Cold War Test Questions

  • 38th Parallel
  • After the goal of pushing the North Koreans back, this became a new American goal for the war:
  • After the war this capital city and this country were divided among four nations.
  • Although Mao Zedong won the hearts of the Chinese peasants during the long Chinese Civil War, he failed to win American support because he was?
  • Are the UN, NATO, and the Warsaw pact still around today?
  • Chinese Communist leader
  • Cut off Eastern Europe from the West 
  • Defensive Eastern Europe military alliance 
  • Defensive Western Europe military alliance 
  • During the Korean War the side supporting the South Koreans appeared to be winning until
  • Film companies created these that barred people form working in Hollywood.
  • First site of Middle east war (Britain/France joined in)
  • Gave economic aid to Europe 
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Immediately after WWII, many of the countries of Eastern Europe were occupied by 
  • Khrushchev
  • NATO stands for
  • On June 26, 1945, in San Francisco, California, 50 nations signed the charter creating the 
  • One of Harry S. Truman’s first decisions as president was to go ahead with the meeting to form this international organization.
  • One of the recipients of Marshall Plan aid was NOT
  • Opposed NATO
  • President Harry S. Truman fired this popular general.
  • Proposed containment 
  • Result of Berlin blockade
  • Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Yalta, in 1945. At that meeting they agreed that:
  • Security Council
  • Soviet port used for WW2 conferences 
  • Soviet troops crushed rebellion here
  • The “blacklisting” that cost many film industry workers their jobs in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s came about because of 
  • The 1950’s hunt for Communists in the United States was dominated by 
  • The agency to investigate communist influence 
  • The capital of North Korea is
  • The capital of South Korea is
  • The Cold War was a face-off between these two ideologies:
  • The crisis in Berlin confirmed that these two countries were in a cold war.
  • The economic system in the Soviet Union was called
  • The Eisenhower Doctrine was a warning to the Soviet Union against military intervention in 
  • The first real test of the UN came in
  • The first satellite
  • The first satellite was launched into space when?
  • The main goal of the Truman Doctrine was to
  • The main purpose of the Marshall plan was to
  • The permanent members of the Security Council include
  • The primary goal of the Marshall Plan was to:
  • The Soviet blockade of West Berlin was a direct response to
  • The United States and the Soviet Union never declared war on each other. What way did the two countries compete?
  • The USSR developed a nuclear device thanks to
  • There were ‘issues’ during the cold war in each of these regions except:
  • This contributed nearly $13 billion to the rebuilding of the countries of Western Europe.
  • This country fought on the side of the North Koreans.
  • This man’s name came to mean the use of unproved accusations against political opponents.
  • This was a program of economic aid for Europe.
  • Took aggressive public stand against communism
  • U2 pilot shot down 
  • UN body for all countries
  • UN commander in Korea
  • US would defend Middle East against communism
  • What did USSR stand for?
  • What is the basis of the Truman Doctrine?
  • What is the difference between fission and fusion?
  • What method was taught to survive a nuclear war?
  • What was the general series of events in Korea?
  • What was the name of the spies in #6?
  • What was the USSR’s response to the formation of NATO?
  • When the Soviet Union first exploded an atomic bomb, the United States responded by
  • When the U.S. reached the ____ River, the ____ got involved in the Korean War.
  • Which is the most powerful type of nuclear device
  • Which of the actions below would be considered as “McCarthyism”?
  • Which of the following was an adverse affect the Cold War had on the United States?
  • Which one was not a result of the launch of Sputnik?
  • Which side won the Chinese civil war and where did the losers go?
  • Which was NOT a combatant in the Korean War?
  • Who was the leader of the side that lost the Chinese civil war?
  • Why was an airlift needed for Berlin?
  • Willingness to go to the edge of war 
  • Winston Churchill described the spread of Soviet influence across Europe as