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Senator Joseph McCarthy was BEST known for his involvement in
a) supporting the Bolsheviks after World War I.
b) opposing the U.S. effort in the Vietnam War.
c) the Presidential election of 1960.
d) the Red Scare following World War II.
The purpose of the Soviet blockade of Berlin (1948-1949) was to
a) prevent Easterners from going to the West.
b) force the US to end the Truman Doctrine.
c) force West Germany to become communist.
d) cause the Western sector of Berlin to surrender to Soviet forces
The first man-made object to be launched into space was
a) Glasnost
b) Sputnik 1
c) Apollo 1
d) Apollo 13
Which of these most accurately represents the outcome of the Korean War?
a) North Korea won.
b) South Korea won.
c) Neither side gained a significant victory
d) the United States won.
Which of these events is often considered the height of the nuclear arms race that brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of war in 1963?
a) Cuban Missile Crisis
b) Bay of Pigs invasion
c) the U-2 incident
d) the Berlin Air Lift
What country in Europe found itself divided into communist and non-communist zones after World War Two?
a) Germany
b) Thailand
c) United States
d) Canada
Which word best describes the U.S. policy towards communism in the early Cold War?
a) appeasement
b) indifference
c) elimination
d) containment
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are MOST known for which of these events?
a) their plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy
b) their cooperation with the Nazi government
c) their kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh Baby
d) their conviction for spying for the Soviet Union
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) gained much attention in the 1940s and 1950s for its investigation of
a) Bill Clinton's lying to a grand jury.
b) Richard Nixon's impeachment charges.
c) Communism within the United States.
d) the treatment of Japanese-Americans in World War II.
In order to break the Soviet blockade against West Berlin in 1948, the United States and Great Britain
a) blockaded Cuba in retaliation to Soviet actions.
b) instituted an economic boycott of all imported Soviet goods.
c) broke off all diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
d) began an airlift designed to keep West Berlin supplied with goods.
North Korea and South Korea both received help from other nations during the Korean War. Which countries intervened?
a) Germany supported North Korea; France supported South Korea.
b) Vietnam supported North Korea; China supported South Korea.
c) The United Nations supported North Korea; Japan supported South Korea.
d) Soviet Union supported North Korea; the United Nations supported South Korea.
After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957, the United States responded by
a) buying their rocket technology.
b) increasing funding to its own space program.
c) blockading East Berlin.
d) attempting to shoot it down with missiles.
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