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Cold War Review
Multiple-Choice
1. c – The practice of spreading ideas to help one’s cause or to harm an opposing cause is
known as propaganda.
2. a – The “Free World” is the same as the West.
3. a – The Eastern European countries that came under Soviet control after World War II
were called satellites.
4. c –An American policy of the 1950’s aimed at preventing the spread of communism in
the Middle East was the Eisenhower Doctrine.
5. c –A crisis involving the United States and the Soviet Union occurred when Russian
missile bases were set up in Cuba.
6. c – The U-2 spy plane belonged to the United States.
7. a –The person who said that an “Iron Curtain” had descended around Eastern Europe
was Winston Churchill.
8. b – In the Middle East, the United States supported Israel.
9. a – The Cold War began when the Soviet Union refused to pull its troops out of
Eastern Europe.
10. a – The United States opposed the spread of communism in Europe during the late
1940s by using the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan.
Completion
11. American and United Nations troops fought against Communist North Korean and
Chinese forces during the Korean War.
12. Radio Free Europe transmitted Western ideas to countries behind the Iron Curtain.
13. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an alliance formed by 12
countries to oppose the spread of communism in Western Europe.
14. Thousands of American servicemen lost their lives in Southeast Asia during the
Vietnam War.
15. The Berlin Wall was built to divide the German city of Berlin into a communist
eastern sector and a democratic western sector.
16. Communists under Mao Zedong defeated Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists during a
civil war in China.
17. The Berlin Airlift broke the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and kept the city out of
Communist hands.
18. The country that started the Space Race by launching “Sputnik I’ in 1957 was the
Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.).
19. The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to limit the production of nuclear
weapons when the signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT).
20. To oppose the spread of communism in the Far East, the United States, Great Britain,
and several countries in Southeast Asia formed and alliance called the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization (SEATO).
True-False
21. False – John F. Kennedy was the president of the U.S. during the Cuban Missile
Crisis.
22. False – The United States was the first country to land a man on the moon.
23. True – Western European countries rebuilt farms, factories, and railroads with
financial aid provided by the U.S. under the Marshall Plan.
24. False – Relations improved between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R during the period of
“détente” in the 1970s.
25. False – The Cold War began at the end of World War II.
QUIZ: MAP EXERCISE: THE COLD WAR
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STAR REVIEW
1. B - President Roosevelt was referring to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in
his “infamy” speech on December 8, 1941.
2. C - The quote from 1947 referring to a way of life that “is based on the will of a
minority forcibly imposed upon the will of the majority” and relies on “the
suppression of personal freedoms” forms part of the rationale for the Truman
Doctrine.
3. A - In the 1968, a writers’ protest in Czechoslovakia led to the resignation of a
Communist leader and the start of democratic reform. Soviets then reestablished
control and restored hard-line Communists to power.
4. D - NATO was created in order to create a unified military defense between the
U.S. and Western Europe.
5. A - The Warsaw Pact was developed in 1955 as a response to the formation of
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
6. B - During the twentieth century, religious/ethnic conflict and the existence of
vast oil reserves have made the Middle East significant to the rest of the world.
7. D - The instillation in Cuba of Soviet offensive intermediate-range missiles
brought the U.S.S.R and the U.S. to the brink of nuclear war in 1962.