Unit 5 Test Review

Why was the Korean War fought?

• US invaded North Korea to stop spread of communism

• South Korea invaded North Korea

• North Korea invaded South Korea

• North Korea wanted to keep the division at the 38th parallel

What was the role of the United Nations in the Korean War?

• they sided with North Korea & fought on their side

• They wanted to protect the Marshall Plan

• they agreed that South Korea must be protected from North Korea

• they wanted to support the Viet Cong

Why were the Rosenberg's (Soviet spies in America) charged & executed in the 1950's?

• because many people had fears of foreign influence in the U.S.

• They were hippies arrested for protesting the Vietnam War

• because they were trying to gain equal rights for African Americans

• because they worked with Nixon on the Watergate Scandal

What is McCarthyism?

• Engaging in terrorist activities

• Making unsubstantiated accusations

• Making accurate predictions

• Implementing gun control

What was a direct result of the Berlin Blockade?

• Nuclear War

• Churchill's Iron Curtain speech

• Reagan's Berlin Wall speech

• NATO was formed & the Cold War stiffened

At the beginning of the Cold War, who did the United States decide to support?

• The nations of Eastern Europe

• All free peoples trying to resist outside pressure

• Communist Poland

• the government of North Korea

What was the Truman Doctrine?

• ordered supplies to airlift to Berlin after the Wall was built

• The treaty that began NATO

• it was designed to contain the spread of communism to Greece and Turkey

• stop communism in Southeast Asia

Explain one cause and one effect of the distribution of Civil Defense publications. (ex. Duck & Cover)

Answer like this:

C:

E:

What did the Iron Curtain symbolize?

• Division between Western & Eastern Europe

• Communism in the Soviet Union

• Separation of North Korea & South Korea

• Division of North Vietnam & South Vietnam

What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?

• US aid to stop the spread of communism in the Middle East

• US aid to stop the spread of communism to Canada

• US aid to stop the spread of communism to Southeast Asia

• US aid to stop the spread of communism in Europe