Mr.

Gonzalez
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Answer the following questions by choosing the best answer. (2 points each)

6. Which alliance can be considered the equivalent to NATO in eastern Europe?

A. The Brest-Litovsk Pact
B. The Warsaw Pact
B. The Marxist Pact
D. The Eastern Front Organization
7. Which of these experienced the benefits of the Marshall Plan?
A. Western Europe
B. South America
C. East Germany
D. Asia
8. The Truman Doctrine helped provide economic support to which countries?
A. East Germany and South Korea B. Greece and East Germany
C. Turkey and Greece
D. East Germany and France
9. In which city did Winston Churchill give his Iron Curtain speech?
A. Fulton, Missouri
B. Paris, France
C. Berlin, West Germany
D. Tulsa, Oklahoma
10. What is a proxy war?
A. Major powers are indirectly fighting
C. Major powers pay other countries to fight for them

B. The countries provide economic aid to allies

D. A war within a nation

11. 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
12. McCarthyism is:
A. Holding people in contempt of court
C. Accusing people of being disloyal without evidence

B. Accusing people of being capitalist

D. Holding people in prison due to perjury

13. 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
14. The 38th parallel distinguished 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
15. In which of the following countries was the democratically elected leader removed by the United States?
A. Cuba
B. Greece
C. Iran
D. Hungary
16. Which country provided troops to North Korea in the Korean War?

A. Russia
C. Japan

B. China
D. United States

17. Which military strategy is represented by the cartoon?

A. Containment
B. Domino Theory
C. Marshall Plan
D. Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)
18. What does armistice mean?
A. Re-arming for nuclear war
B. Agreement to stop building nuclear bombs
C. An truce to temporarily stop war D. Giving assistance to poor countries

19. The result of the Korean War was that South Korea was:
A. Absorbed by North Korea
B. Much smaller than it had been
C. Roughly the same size as it had been
D. Larger than it had been at the start of the war
20. What was the U.S. response to Hungarian revolution of 1956?
A. Provided UN troops
B. Sent weapons to Hungarian revolutionaries
C. The U.S. chose to not to actively support Hungary
D. The U.S. sent helicopters to drop supplies

21. In which country were covert actions taken to protect Chiquita banana?
A. Nicaragua
B. Iran
C. Egypt
D. Guatemala
22. The invasion of Egypt by Britain, France, and Israel in 1956 was prompted by Egypt's seizure of the
A. Suez Canal
B. Aswan Dam
C. Gaza Strip
D. Sinai Peninsula
23. The UN troops in Korea were mostly made up of_______________.
A. American Troops
B. German Troops
C. Chinese Troops
D. Russian Troops
24. Which two of the following counties experienced similar interventions from the U.S.?
A. Guatemala and Egypt
B. Iran and Guatemala
C. Iran and Hungary
D. Hungary and Egypt
25. What is the baby boom of the 1950s?
A. A sharp decline in population
C. An increase in the amount of babies being born
26. What does MASH stand for?
A. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
C. Mobile Aerial Socialist Helicopter

B. A catalyst for laws protecting infants

D. An increase in government spending in schools

B. Mutually Assured Safe House

D. Manually Arming Soviet Homing Missiles

27. Michael Harrington was an author known to also be a supporter of:

A. McCarthyist
B. Unregulated Capitalism
C. Classism
D. Socialism
28. 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
THE ANSWER SHEET THAT STUDENTS FILL OUT FOR THE TEST IS ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE

1950s test
Modern America
Gonzalez
Name: ________________________________
Date: _______________________ Period: ___
Match the following people to a description (2 pts each)
1. ____ This person lied to HUAC about knowing Whittaker Chambers
A. George Kennan
2. ____ Known as the father of capitalism
B. Joseph McCarthy
3. ____ Was in charge of the U.N. Forces in the Korean War
C. Alger Hiss
4. ____ Initially promoted the idea of containment to use against the Soviet Union
D. Douglas MacArthur
5. ____ Convinced Americans he had a list of communist working in the government
E. Adam Smith
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29. Name a piece of 1950s technology that had an impact on American lives. What changed due to this technology?
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30. What type of impact does HUAC have on the American people based on this cartoon? Use examples from class
and at least one example from the cartoon to help support your answer. (5 pts)
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31. What were three strategies that Americans could use to protect themselves from a nuclear bomb? (3 pts)
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32. Was containment during the 1950s effective or not effective? Use two instances of U.S. intervention in foreign
countries to support your answer and describe why they either represented the success or failure of containment.
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33. The Korean War is sometimes known as the Forgotten War. Its impact like the North and South Korea rivalry still
exists today. Do you think that Korea deserves the name of the Forgotten War? If yes, give and explain two reasons
why it deserves the name. If not, give and explain two reasons as to why it does not deserve the name. (6 pts)
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