WORD BANK:A. Mao Ze Dong

B. Harry S. Truman

C. Dwight Eisenhower

D. Joseph Stalin

E. Joseph McCarthy

AD. Nikita Khrushchev

US History Chapter 15: The Cold War Begins Name: Do Not Write on This!! Date: Hour:

1. Which of the following is not a cause of the Cold War?

A. USSR’s failure to allow Poland to uphold free elections B. US and USSR both believe that their economic and political systems are superior C. Soviet invasion of North Korea

Matching: People 2. United States President as WWII ended and the Cold War

began

3. Leader of the USSR at the beginning of the Cold War

4. Senator who proclaimed to have a list of communists who had infiltrated the US Government

5. United States President in 1953 who ended the Korean war

6. Communist leader in China who overthrew the pro-U.S. government

7. Emerged as leader after Stalin in 1956

8. As World War II ended, what two factors influenced the Soviet leaders’ thinking?

A. Capitalism and democracyB. Security and communismC. Education and human rights

9. At Yalta, the leaders agreed to recognize the Polish government that the Soviets had set up if Stalin agreed to:

A. Allow Poland to trade with the West B. Allow people who were Jewish to set up the governmentC. Hold free elections in Poland as soon as possible

Use the Map to Answer the following questions.

10. The presence of the Soviet army in Eastern Europe ensured that pro-Soviet Communist governments would be established in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and _______.

A. HungaryB. SpainC. Italy

11. Analyze the map. What does the thick line represent:

A. The Steel Shower CurtainB. The divide between US and German

control during WWII C. The Iron Curtain

12. Which of the following best completes the diagram?

A. Germany must be dividedB. Germany must make reparations in order for the Soviet Union to be rebuiltC. Germany must be allowed to recover economically

13. The containment policy would best be described as:

A. Encouraging the spread of communismB. Stopping the spread of communismC. Encouraging US space travel

14. When the United States, Britain, and France merged their zones in Germany, the Soviet Union responded by . The United States in turn began the .

A. Dropping an atomic bomb, arms raceB. Blockading West Berlin, Berlin AirliftC. Blockading West Berlin, blockade of eastern Europe

U.S. View Soviet View

Opposing Views at Potsdam

Allow Germany’s economy to

recover???

15. NATO was created in Western Europe as a defense alliance. In response to NATO, USSR and Eastern Europe formed the:

A. North Atlantic Trade OrganizationB. Warsaw PactC. Sputnik

16. The Truman Doctrine put the theory of containment into practice which resulted in:

A. The economic recovery of the Soviet UnionB. The rearming of West GermanyC. A large sum of money from Congress to fight Communist aggression in Greece and Turkey

Use the graph to the right to answer question 17.

17. The graph to the right shows the aid distributed from the . This was a policy that supported containment while helping Western Europe rebuild.

A. McCarthy PlanB. Marshall Plan C. McCarran Act

Use the statement below to answer questions 19-20.

18. McCarthy’s statement implies that he has proof that the Communist Party has

A. Announced that it has a spy ring B. Infiltrated the U.S. governmentC. Caused US employees to resign

19. Statements such as this one by Senator McCarthy led to all of the following occurrences except:

A. The Senate passed a vote of censure against McCarthy B. A “witch hunt” began for communists in the United States C. The loyalty review program was created by President Truman

“While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.”

- Joseph McCarthy

20. In the picture to the right, students are participating in a:

A. Fire DrillB. Communist DrillC. Duck and Cover Drill

21. Eisenhower believed that winning the Cold War would require not just military action but also a:

A. Strong economyB. Treaty with the Soviet UnionC. Rollback in Americans’ civil rights

22. To prevent Communist revolutions in developing countries, Eisenhower decided to use , or hidden, operations conducted by the .

A. Covert, Central Intelligence AgencyB. Massive retaliation, National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationC. Embargos, Anti-Espionage American Trust

23. The Eisenhower Doctrine gave the President the authority to expand the Truman Doctrine and….:

A. Withdraw troops from West BerlinB. Spread pan-Arabism to the nations of the Middle EastC. To fight communism the Middle East

Matching:

24. Massive Retaliation

25. Satellite Nation/Buffer Zone

26. Fallout

27. Brinkmanship

A. A policy of threatening large scale response against a communist state trying to seize a peaceful state by force

B. Nations politically and economically controlled by another more powerful nation

C. Radiation dispersed by a nuclear explosion

D. The willingness to go to war to force an opponent to back down

Use the map to answer questions 28-29:

28. Judging by the map, the Korean War resulted in:

A. Large territorial losses for North Korea

B. Very few territorial changesC. Large territorial losses for

South Korea

29. United Nations troops in Korea were driven back across the 38th parallel in an attack by:

A. JapanB. China C. The Soviet Union

30. All the following are true about the Space Race except:

A. The USSR launched the first satellite Sputnik into space

B. Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon

C. USSR and the US shared technology

31. Which of the following is not true of the Soviet Union at the end of WWII and start of Cold War?

A. The Soviet Union hoped to have more capitalismB. The Soviet Union wanted to create a buffer or security zone between themselves and GermanyC. The Soviet Union hoped to spread communism

32. overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and turned Cuba into a communist nation in 1959.

A. John Glenn B. Fidel CastroC. Nikita Khrushchev

33. Which of the following programs would have helped the stop of communism Latin America?

A. NAFTA and New DealB. The Peace Corps and Alliance for ProgressC. UN and Warsaw Pact

34. The purpose of the Bay of Pigs mission involving Cuban exiles was to:

A. Spread peace to CubaB. Overthrow the communist leader and start a popular revolutionC. Enforce the Alliance for Progress

35. The main idea of this political cartoon is that:

A. Kennedy and Khrushchev were on the verge of nuclear war

B. Kennedy and Khrushchev frequently arm wrestled to show who was the most powerful

C. Nixon and Kennedy had to battle for the presidential race of 1960

36. Use the picture to the right to answer the question. Upon learning of the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy ordered a to stop the delivery of more missiles, demand the existing missile sites be dismantled and warned that if attacked, the United States would fully respond.

A. Land blockade B. Naval blockade C. Wall to be built

37. Which of the following choices best completes the diagram about the agreement ending the Cuban missile crisis?

A. Remove missiles from JapanB. Remove missiles from CubaC. Remove missiles from Turkey

38. How did Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev respond when Western powers refused to withdraw form West Berlin?

A. Built a wall through Berlin, blocking movement between the Soviet Union and Western nations B. Enlisted La brigade to invade Cuba and remove Castro from power C. Airlifted food supplies to Berlin to end a blockade by American forces

Use the timeline above to answer question 39.

39. According to the timeline, how many years was Castro in power before a major military conflict arose between Cuba and the United States?

A. Less than one yearB. Two yearsC. Five years

Agreement Ending the Cuban Missile Crisis

Kennedy promised publically not to invade Cuba

Kennedy promised privately to:???

Khrushchev promised to remove Soviet missiles from

Cuba

40. Why did Stalin order a blockade of West Berlin?

A. Stalin wanted to unite Berlin and organize free elections for GermanyB. Stalin wanted the US to abandon West BerlinC. West Berlin was ruled by communists

41. Spies like____________ led to the ______________________.

A. The Rosenberg’s; Red ScareB. Joe McCarthy, Bay of Pigs invasionC. Fidel Castro, Senate Communism trials

42. Which of the following is TRUE about the end of the Korean War?

A. Korea remained divided into 2 separate countries, North and South Korea; it still is todayB. The North Koreans won and Korea was united under CommunismC. The Chinese took over Korea

43. Which of the following led to the UN authorizing American forces Korea?

A. North Korean troops invaded the south to unite the peninsula under communismB. American and Soviet forces clashed at the 38th parallelC. North Korea had built nuclear weapons.

44. In 1953 Americans were shocked when the Soviets….

A. Sent their U2 plane to spy on MichiganB. Tested the hydrogen bomb (H-bomb)C. Invaded North Korea

45. One lesson from the McCarthy Era is to realize that:

A. Communism is attractive in prosperous timesB. Public fear of traitors can lead to intolerance and discriminationC. The American government is always fair and democratic in its investigations of suspected criminals