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  • Q1
    drills performed by American school children in preparation for a Soviet attack
    dive-and-hide
    live-and-prosper
    duck-and-cover
    up-and-over
    30s
  • Q2
    wrote the novel Tomorrow! to educate the public about the horrors of atomic war
    George Orwell
    Philip Wylie
    Ernest Hemmingway
    J. Edgar Hoover
    30s
  • Q3
    seized by the Egyptians, who intended to use its profits to fund other projects
    Berlin, Germany
    the Straits of Hormuz
    satellite nations
    Suez Canal
    30s
  • Q4
    deadly radiation left over after a nuclear blast
    acid rain
    fallout
    leftovers
    waste
    30s
  • Q5
    military alliance formed in Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union
    NATO
    League of Nations
    United Nations
    Warsaw Pact
    30s
  • Q6
    FBI director who urged HUAC to hold public hearings on Communist subversion
    J. Edgar Hoover
    Joseph McCarthy
    James Comey
    John Scopes
    30s
  • Q7
    type of American spy plane shot down by the Soviets in 1960
    F-4
    R-15
    U-2
    B-52
    30s
  • Q8
    general in charge of occupied Japan, fired by President Truman for insubordination
    Douglas MacArthur
    George Patton
    Hirohito
    Chester Nimitz
    30s
  • Q9
    Communist countries of Eastern Europe that were dependent on the Soviet Union
    demilitarized zone
    satellite nations
    Western Nations
    United Nations
    30s
  • Q10
    separated North Korea and South Korea after the armistice that ended the Korean War
    Berlin Wall
    Great Wall
    demilitarized zone
    autonomous zone
    30s
  • Q11
    The United Nations was officially organized in 1945 and had a Security Council responsible for international peace and security. The Security Council could ask its members to
    take military action to uphold a UN resolution
    contain Communist expansion
    choose members for the General Assembly
    negotiate agreements on trade and development
    30s
  • Q12
    At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, President Harry Truman took a firm stand against heavy reparations and insisted that
    Germany’s industry had to be allowed to recover.
    the United States had a right to use the atomic bomb.
    Europe’s economy had to be rebuilt.
    the Soviets’ concerns about security were unreasonable.
    30s
  • Q13
    In 1946 what did Winston Churchill describe as an “iron curtain” falling across Eastern Europe?
    the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
    the adoption of the Declaration of Liberated Europe
    the industrialization of Eastern European nations under the Marshall Plan
    the establishment of pro-Soviet Communist governments in Eastern Europe
    30s
  • Q14
    In the document known as the Long Telegram, U.S. diplomat George Kennan expressed his opinion that the Soviet Union had major economic and political weaknesses and proposed a policy of
    confrontation with the Soviets
    providing aid to European nations
    engaging in covert operations
    containment of Soviet expansion
    30s
  • Q15
    In response to Communist aggression in Greece and Turkey, President Truman outlined a policy known as the ______________, which pledged the United States to fight the spread of communism worldwide.
    Truman Doctrine
    Marshall Plan
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    Berlin Airlift
    30s

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