Cold War Pre-Test

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Date_________________

MULTIPLE CHOICE- Circle the letter that best answers the question
1.

Which American general was in charge of the United Nations forces in the Korean War?
a. Joseph McCarthy
b. Douglas MacArthur
c. Dwight D. Eisenhower
d. Harry S. Truman

In which city did Winston Churchill give his Iron Curtain speech?
a. Fulton, Missouri
b. Paris, France
c. Berlin, West Germany
d. Tulsa, Oklahoma

3.

The 38th parallel helped distinguish boundaries between which two countries?
a. East and West Germany
b. North and South Vietnam
c. North and South Korea
d. East and West Austria

4.

Which couple was accused of releasing atomic secrets in the early 1950s?
a. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
b. Jake and Julia Saperstein
c. John and Esther Rothschild

d. Lucille and Jack Pickford

5.

Which military strategy was initially supported by George Kennan?

a. Duck and Cover
b. Containment
c. M.A.D.
d. Domino Theory

6.

Which alliance can be considered the equivalent of NATO in Eastern Europe?

a. The Brest-Litovsk Pact
b. The Warsaw Pact
b. The Marxist Pact
d. The Eastern Front Organization

7.

The 1950s saw a shift of people moving from cities into what type of residential areas?
a. Rural areas
b. McCarthy Towns
c. Suburbs
d. Fordist Towns

8.

What is the name of the anti-materialistic counterculture group that was formed in the 1950s?
a. The Posers
b. The Culturist
c. The Beatniks
d. The Communist

9.

Which economic ideology did the United States of America support in the 1950s?
a. Pastoralism
b. Socialism
c. Capitalism
d.Mercantilism

10.

In what year did Josef Stalin die?

a. 1960
c. 1957

b. 1949
d. 1953