11th Grade - Cold War Kids...Quiz

Who were the Hollywood Ten?

• actors who had started workers unions at movie studios

• members of the CIA who also worked for the movie industry

• unfriendly witnesses who refused to testify before the Senate

• people who had been blacklisted from every Hollywood production

What ended up proving that Alger Hiss was a spy?

• Soviet cables released in the 1990s

• investigations conducted by McCarthy

• newspaper reports from the time period

• information uncovered in Senate hearings

Eisenhower’s “open skies” proposal would allow both the United States and the Soviet Union to __________.

• send satellites into outer space

• fly planes over each other’s land

• point nuclear weapons toward the clouds

• have clean air that was free of pollution

Why did many Americans criticize Kennedy for the way he handled the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• They wanted Cuba to pay fines.

• They said he practiced brinkmanship.

• They thought he should have used more force.

• They feared Cuba would still shoot missiles at the United States.

Because he always made his accusations against people while he was in the __________, Joseph McCarthy had immunity that protected him from being sued for slander.

• Senate

• Supreme Court

• United Nations

• State Department

Show whether each statement about the Cold War is true or false.

Schoolchildren practiced air-raid procedures.

• True

• False

Show whether each statement about the Cold War is true or false.

Families built fallout shelters in their backyards.

• True

• False

Show whether each statement about the Cold War is true or false.

Citizens designed their own nuclear bombs to protect themselves.

• True

• False

Show whether each statement about the Cold War is true or false.

Businesses that manufactured the components for nuclear weapons benefited tremendously.

• True

• False

All of the following were one-time members of the U.S. Communist Party, EXCEPT:

• Julius Rosenberg

• Joseph McCarthy

• Whittaker Chambers

• Alger Hiss