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Cold War Vocabulary
Test Description: Key terms for Unit 10: The Cold War
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations in response to NATO:
A
Marshall Plan
B
Warsaw Pact
C
NATO
D
United Nations
2) The continuing competitive attempt by two or more countries to develop and possess more and more powerful weapons:
A
Cold War
B
Blockade
C
Globalization
D
Arms Race
3) The longest and bloodiest Cold War conflict. North Vietnam was communist and South Vietnam was democratic. A group called the Viet Cong wanted the country to unite under a communist government. The U.S. sent troops to stop this from happening:
A
Korean Conflict
B
Eleanor Roosevelt
C
Vietnam War
D
Cold War
4) Built in the 1960s to make it harder for East Germans to flee west. This was a symbol of Communist oppression:
A
Communism
B
Arms Race
C
Iron Curtain
D
Berlin Wall
5) International peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong; founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and economic development:
A
G.I. Bill
B
United Nations
C
Globalization
D
Warsaw Pact
6) An act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving:
A
Blockade
B
G.I. Bill
C
Communism
D
Marshall Plan
7) A military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the U.S., and Canada to prevent the spread of Communism:
A
Vietnam War
B
Warsaw Pact
C
NATO
D
Blockade
8) An economic system based on the private (individual) ownership of goods and resources which can be sold for a profit:
A
Capitalism
B
Cuban Missile Crisis
C
Cold War
D
Containment
9) Financial aid to help rebuild war-torn Europe. This program was designed to help prevent the spread of Communism:
A
G.I. Bill
B
Marshall Plan
C
Capitalism
D
Korean Conflict
10) State of tension between the U.S. and Soviet Union without actual fighting that divided the world into two camps:
A
Democracy
B
Blockade
C
Communism
D
Cold War
11) North Korea-Communist South Korea-Democratic; North Korea invaded South Korea, and the U.S., via the United Nations, got involved to stop the spread of Communism:
A
Cold War
B
NATO
C
Eleanor Roosevelt
D
Korean Conflict
12) A type of government where the government (usually a dictator) controls the economy- resources, goods, services, etc.:
A
Capitalism
B
Communism
C
Democracy
D
Cold War
13) The wall and other security measures taken by the Soviet Union to prevent the interaction of people and governments of the NATO nations and the Warsaw Pact nations. This term was coined by Winston Churchill:
A
Korean Conflict
B
Domino Theory
C
Iron Curtain
D
Eleanor Roosevelt
14) To stop something from spreading: especially the efforts of the U.S. to block the spread of Communism during the late 1940s to early 1950s:
A
Democracy
B
Communism
C
Containment
D
G.I. Bill
15) To expand markets (selling and buying stuff) worldwide:
A
Marshall Plan
B
Containment
C
Cuban Missile Crisis
D
Globalization
16) In 1962 the Soviet Union put nuclear weapons in Cuba. Fidel Castro had asked for the Soviet support because he feared the U.S. invasion. The crisis ended with the Soviets removing their nuclear weapons:
A
Cuban Missile Crisis
B
Korean Conflicts
C
Cold War
D
Warsaw Pact
17) Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944). This bill was put in place to help the soldiers returning home from war. It offered things like money for college, loans for houses or businesses, etc.:
A
Iron Curtain
B
G.I. Bill
C
Domino Theory
D
Arms Race
18) A type of government where the people rule and often elect leaders by voting:
A
Globalization
B
Communism
C
Capitalism
D
Democracy
19) Wife of former president, FDR. She played an important role in promoting women's rights:
A
NATO
B
Eleanor Roosevelt
C
Blockade
D
Domino Theory
20) The theory that Communism would spread one country at a time if it was not stopped:
A
Domino Theory
B
Iron Curtain
C
Cuban Missile Crisis
D
Marshall Plan
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