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  • Q1
    What did the Truman Doctrine promise?
    Aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom.
    The end of racial discrimination in hiring and education.
    New projects to create jobs and housing.
    Money for returning GI's to go to school and start families.
    45s
  • Q2
    Which of the following was not an event of the Cold War?
    Korean War
    WWII
    Nuclear Arms Race
    Space Race
    45s
  • Q3
    What was the main purpose of the Marshall Plan?
    To bring an end to the arms race and the Cold War
    To strengthen nations to resist the spread of communism.
    To aid other nations' armies against an invasion by the Soviet Union
    To show the passing of political power to a new, younger generation.
    45s
  • Q4
    The belief that if one country became communist, others would follow is:
    Vietnamization
    Escalation
    Demilitarization
    The Domino Theory
    45s
  • Q5
    Which President was in office when communism officially ended in the Soviet Union?
    Harry Truman
    George HW Bush
    Bill Clinton
    Ronald Reagan
    45s
  • Q6
    This was tested as part of the increase/push in nuclear technology:
    Sputnik
    Nitrogen Bomb
    TNT Bomb
    Hydrogen Bomb
    45s
  • Q7
    Who is the only person to authorize use of nuclear weapons in time of war?
    John F Kennedy (JFK)
    Josef Stalin
    Harry Truman
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
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  • Q8
    What is the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty?
    A document listing which countries deserve to be attacked in a nuclear war
    An agreement to help increase the power of nuclear weapons
    Sharing nuclear weapon technology
    An attempt to limit nuclear weapons
    45s
  • Q9
    Which of the following best explains why Americans worried about Sputnik?
    It showed the US had fallen behind the Soviet Union technologically
    It showed the Soviet Union possessed more money than the US
    The Soviet Union launched an person into space
    The Soviet Union launched a dog into space
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  • Q10
    What was Sputnik?
    missile
    portal to the upside down
    satellite
    space ship
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  • Q11
    Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
    Buzz Aldrin
    John Glenn
    Neil Armstrong
    Yuri Gurgarin
    45s
  • Q12
    Which is not true about the Berlin Airlift?
    The airlift began after Soviet authorities blocked the city from the West
    The Soviets were trying to force the Western Powers out of Berlin
    The Soviets responded to it by having North Korea invade South Korea
    Berlin was surrounded by a communist-controlled section of Germany
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  • Q13
    Why did the Soviet Union create a blockade around West Berlin?
    Soviets believed the US would soon test an atomic bomb in Berlin
    The Western democracies began implementing an economic plan to help build a strong, anti-communist Germany
    Soviets were upset about the Berlin Airlift
    Soviets were upset about the invasion of South Korea
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  • Q14
    The Berlin Wall symbolized?
    Democracy
    Communism
    WWII
    Peace
    45s
  • Q15
    Which President asked Gorbachev to "tear down this wall"?
    Clinton
    Carter
    Reagan
    Bush
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