Origins of the Cold War Test Questions

bullet38th Parallel
bulletAfter the goal of pushing the North Koreans back, this became a new American goal for the war:
bulletAfter the war this capital city and this country were divided among four nations.
bullet 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?
bulletAre the UN, NATO, and the Warsaw pact still around today?
bulletChinese Communist leader
bulletCut off Eastern Europe from the West 
bulletDefensive Eastern Europe military alliance 
bulletDefensive Western Europe military alliance 
bulletDuring the Korean War the side supporting the South Koreans appeared to be winning until
bulletFilm companies created these that barred people form working in Hollywood.
bulletFirst site of Middle east war (Britain/France joined in)
bulletGave economic aid to Europe 
bulletHarry S. Truman
bulletImmediately after WWII, many of the countries of Eastern Europe were occupied by 
bulletKhrushchev
bulletNATO stands for
bulletOn June 26, 1945, in San Francisco, California, 50 nations signed the charter creating the 
bulletOne of Harry S. Truman’s first decisions as president was to go ahead with the meeting to form this international organization.
bulletOne of the recipients of Marshall Plan aid was NOT
bulletOpposed NATO
bulletPresident Harry S. Truman fired this popular general.
bulletProposed containment 
bulletResult of Berlin blockade
bulletRoosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Yalta, in 1945. At that meeting they agreed that:
bulletSecurity Council
bulletSoviet port used for WW2 conferences 
bulletSoviet troops crushed rebellion here
bulletThe “blacklisting” that cost many film industry workers their jobs in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s came about because of 
bulletThe 1950’s hunt for Communists in the United States was dominated by 
bulletThe agency to investigate communist influence 
bulletThe capital of North Korea is
bulletThe capital of South Korea is
bulletThe Cold War was a face-off between these two ideologies:
bulletThe crisis in Berlin confirmed that these two countries were in a cold war.
bulletThe economic system in the Soviet Union was called
bulletThe Eisenhower Doctrine was a warning to the Soviet Union against military intervention in 
bulletThe first real test of the UN came in
bulletThe first satellite
bulletThe first satellite was launched into space when?
bulletThe main goal of the Truman Doctrine was to
bulletThe main purpose of the Marshall plan was to
bulletThe permanent members of the Security Council include
bulletThe primary goal of the Marshall Plan was to:
bulletThe Soviet blockade of West Berlin was a direct response to
bullet The United States and the Soviet Union never declared war on each other. What way did the two countries compete?
bulletThe USSR developed a nuclear device thanks to
bulletThere were ‘issues’ during the cold war in each of these regions except:
bulletThis contributed nearly $13 billion to the rebuilding of the countries of Western Europe.
bulletThis country fought on the side of the North Koreans.
bulletThis man’s name came to mean the use of unproved accusations against political opponents.
bulletThis was a program of economic aid for Europe.
bulletTook aggressive public stand against communism
bulletU2 pilot shot down 
bulletUN body for all countries
bulletUN commander in Korea
bulletUS would defend Middle East against communism
bulletWhat did USSR stand for?
bulletWhat is the basis of the Truman Doctrine?
bulletWhat is the difference between fission and fusion?
bulletWhat method was taught to survive a nuclear war?
bulletWhat was the general series of events in Korea?
bulletWhat was the name of the spies in #6?
bulletWhat was the USSR’s response to the formation of NATO?
bulletWhen the Soviet Union first exploded an atomic bomb, the United States responded by
bulletWhen the U.S. reached the ____ River, the ____ got involved in the Korean War.
bulletWhich is the most powerful type of nuclear device
bulletWhich of the actions below would be considered as “McCarthyism”?
bulletWhich of the following was an adverse affect the Cold War had on the United States?
bulletWhich one was not a result of the launch of Sputnik?
bulletWhich side won the Chinese civil war and where did the losers go?
bulletWhich was NOT a combatant in the Korean War?
bulletWho was the leader of the side that lost the Chinese civil war?
bulletWhy was an airlift needed for Berlin?
bulletWillingness to go to the edge of war 
bulletWinston Churchill described the spread of Soviet influence across Europe as