Name: ___________________________________________________ Class Period: _______________________
Cold War Unit Test Review
1. Place the year in the blanks next to the following events:
________ Berlin Airlift
________ Launch of Sputnik
________ Truman Doctrine
________ Korean War
________ Building of the Berlin Wall
________ Castro Takes Over Cuba
________ Kennedy Wins Election
________ Bay of Pigs Invasion
________ Marshall Plan
________ Armstrong Walks on Moon
________ Creation of NATO
________ Cuban Missile Crisis
2. What was one of the most debilitating diseases for which scientific advances of the 1950s found a cure
(FDR was a victim of this terrible disease)? __________________________________________________
3. Which scientist found the cure to the disease in question 2? ___________________________________
4. In what ways did American culture transfer to other cultures? __________________________________
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5. What is cultural diffusion? _______________________________________________________________
6. How did the Cold War impact education systems in the US? ____________________________________
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7. After the end of World War 2 many Americans moved to towns and subdivisions on the outskirts of
cities. What was this process called? _______________________________________________________
8. What is the motto of the United States? ____________________________________________________
9. Name three of the benefits for soldiers after the passage of the GI Bill:
a. ______________________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________________
10. What was the name given to the significant increase in the birth rate in the United States in the 1950s
and 1960s? ___________________________________________________________________________
11. What was the name given to the young people who began creating music with a stronger base line and
held views that expressed new ideas about economics, environment, and social order in the 1950s and
1960s? _______________________________________________________________________________
12. What was the name of the new style of music that emerged during the 1950s? ____________________
13. Who led a series of televised hearings that used American fears of Communist infiltration of the
government to compel the testimonies of many government officials and celebrities in the 1950s and
1960s? _______________________________________________________________________________
14. What is the name given to the time period of social, economic, and military tensions between the
United States and the Soviet Union after the end of World War 2? _______________________________
15. What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift? __________________________________________________
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16. What was the cause of the Berlin Airlift? ____________________________________________________
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17. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union for much of the Cold War (he took over after the death of
Stalin)? ______________________________________________________________________________
18. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist revolution? ____________________________________
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19. What was the name of the country started by the Chinese Nationalists after they were driven from
China during a civil war? _________________________________________________________________
20. Where was the dividing line established between North Korea and South Korea at the end of WW2?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
21. Which author is greatly viewed as one of the main voices of the Beat Generation? __________________
22. What is the meaning of the Domino Theory? ________________________________________________
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23. Describe the meaning of the US foreign policy of containment. __________________________________
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24. What was the purpose of the building of the Berlin Wall? ______________________________________
25. What is the name of the Communist revolutionary who led the overthrow of the Cuban government
during the Cold War? ___________________________________________________________________
26. What was the purpose of Marshall Plan? ___________________________________________________
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27. What is the organization that was created by noncommunist countries in order to contain the spread of
Communism? _________________________________________________________________________
28. What was the Truman Doctrine? __________________________________________________________
29. In what two European nations did the US first apply the Truman Doctrine?
a. _______________________________ b. _____________________________________________
30. Which event marks the beginning of the space race? __________________________________________
31. What was the purpose of the House Committee on Un-American Activities? _______________________
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32. What kinds of treaty can NATO be considered? ______________________________________________
33. What treaty was created as a response to the creation of NATO? ________________________________
34. Why did the United States become involved in the Korean War? ________________________________
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35. Place the following items in the column with the president with which they are associate: McCarthyism,
Bay of Pigs, creation of NASA, Cuban Revolution, Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Creation of NATO, launch of
Sputnik, Building of Berlin Wall, Camelot, Cuban Missile Crisis, Crash of U2 Spy Plane, McCarthyism
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
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